Category: craft fairs
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Dates on a Calendar
I keep two planning calendars – one for this year, one for next – to record events and remind myself of deadlines. Even though I am cutting back on teaching by no longer accepting guild workshops, it seems I still manage to fill my calendar with dates. These are just the potential teaching events coming…
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New Normal
It feels like my ‘normal’ for the past 10 years is trying to weave down my stash. So what’s new about that? Well, my energy levels, for one thing. One of the adverse effects of the cancer drug is to feel tired. Even on the lowest possible dose I feel tired all day long and…
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New Normal
It feels like my ‘normal’ for the past 10 years is trying to weave down my stash. So what’s new about that? Well, my energy levels, for one thing. One of the adverse effects of the cancer drug is to feel tired. Even on the lowest possible dose I feel tired all day long and…
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New Normal
It feels like my ‘normal’ for the past 10 years is trying to weave down my stash. So what’s new about that? Well, my energy levels, for one thing. One of the adverse effects of the cancer drug is to feel tired. Even on the lowest possible dose I feel tired all day long and…
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Warps in Waiting
Earlier today I wove a couple of tea towels, but as much as I would like to get that warp finished, I am also getting concerned about my other craft fair inventory. I’m very low on scarves, and since I have boxes and boxes of various kinds of rayon in my stash, I switched to…
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Two By Two
When it is feasible, I wind warps holding two threads. Winding two ends at a time means winding goes twice as quickly as winding one at a time. I prefer a 2 x 2 cross, especially when the yarns are textured, as in this warp. Textured yarns may tend to grab onto their neighbours and…
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After the Party…
…comes the clean up. And the return to reality… In one way writing The Book was a trip down memory lane as we mined my sample collections for textiles to serve as illustrations for the weave structures I chose to write about. Partly it was an exercise in a certain level of anguish – what…
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Another Trip Round the Sun.
Celebrating another trip round the sun by…dressing the loom again. 🙂 As I have been reflective about my weaving, I have also been reflective about my life. Over the years I have made mistakes – and hopefully learned from them. I have tried my darndest to think about the end result of decisions that I…
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Another Trip Round the Sun.
Celebrating another trip round the sun by…dressing the loom again. 🙂 As I have been reflective about my weaving, I have also been reflective about my life. Over the years I have made mistakes – and hopefully learned from them. I have tried my darndest to think about the end result of decisions that I…
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Another Trip Round the Sun.
Celebrating another trip round the sun by…dressing the loom again. 🙂 As I have been reflective about my weaving, I have also been reflective about my life. Over the years I have made mistakes – and hopefully learned from them. I have tried my darndest to think about the end result of decisions that I…