Category: business
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Contingency Plans
Warp at about the half way mark – it’s slow going with needing a temple and trying to catch the weft loops that bubble up in the shed. However, I am at the half way mark! I’m doing four different weft colours and weaving them in rotation so that I have an equal number of…
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Contingency Plans
Warp at about the half way mark – it’s slow going with needing a temple and trying to catch the weft loops that bubble up in the shed. However, I am at the half way mark! I’m doing four different weft colours and weaving them in rotation so that I have an equal number of…
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Spinning Plates
For whatever reason, today I feel like I’m running from stick to stick, trying to keep spinning plates from wobbling and falling to the floor with a crash. I can’t seem to settle to anything – perhaps it is the unsettled weather we are having – sun one moment, blustery wind, pelting rain, lashes of…
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Slogging
There is perhaps 35 yards left on the 50 yard warp I’ve been working on. I’m at the pure ‘slog’ stage, now. There is a poster on Facebook that begins something to the effect that creative people are easily bored. I don’t think so. I don’t think creative people bother to invite boredom into their…
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1500
Long and Winding Road This post is number 1500. Wow. 1500 blog posts since starting this journey in August 2008. Anniversaries and milestones are a time for looking back, to appreciate the road travelled, maybe marvel a little at how far one has come, the obstacles and detours along the way as well as the…
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Backlog
Yesterday I mentioned I was feeling overwhelmed. This is not an unusual feeling for me, I quite often get myself in over my head. Very familiar with the deep end of the pool I am. It is one of the hazards of being self-employed. You wind up pursuing several different options because you never know…
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Leaning Tower
Part of the challenge of weaving for an income is just how much work it actually is when done on a ‘large’ scale. Weaving aside, because the actual shuttle throwing is only a very small part of the process, there is a great deal that is required once the threads are interlaced. While I may…
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Not Quite Over
Apparently 2013 wasn’t quite over after all…. Since my post saying that all production from that day onward would be for 2014, I have finished the blue/green tea towel warp, including hemming most of the 17 towels from that warp, wound a white place mat warp, wove it off, cut and serged ready for wet…
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Defining Success
One of the things that self-employed people must do on a regular basis is define ‘success’. Is this show successful enough to continue doing, or do I drop it? Is this line of scarves selling, or do I need to stop making it? Bottom line, am I making enough money to keep on doing what…
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The Challenge
This project has been on the back burner for a rather long time. I was asked to make a particular textile by a shop in Vancouver and I’ve finally taken up the gauntlet to see if I can. Since this is for a specific person I won’t say more than that I’m pleased with how…