Category: craft fairs
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Musings
My life has been a roller coaster for more years than I care to think about. Being a self-employed weaver in the 20th and 21st centuries is…challenging. Then, for the past 10 years, add in serious, potentially life ending health issues (my allergies and whiplash injuries are not exactly life ending, just annoying), well, there…
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Retirement
This year my high school graduating class is having a 50th year reunion. I have mixed feelings about this. I was never in the ‘in’ crowd at school. I suppose I might have been considered a bit of a nerd. I actually liked school – for the most part. I enjoyed reading. I did my…
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Certain Values of ‘Finished’
With a craft as densely layered as weaving, there are many stages along the way to ‘finish’. Not only do I weave, I spin and knit. (I also very occasionally make lace, but that’s another story entirely.) In order to keep myself motivated on the long journey from fluff to fabric, I count ‘finishing’ stages…
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Cycles
Day one of a new calendar year. The cycle repeats. I am already well into production for the new year. As soon as I got home from Vancouver I started winding warps for place mats. And weaving them. And winding more. These are currently in the queue for weaving, while some have already been…
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Here We Go…Again
Yesterday was set up day for the other local show we do – Studio Fair. I have been doing this show, first as a volunteer, then as an independent crafts person for a very long time. I’ve watched it grow into the higher end show it now is, attracting artisans from across the country. I’ve…
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One Down, Two…
The first show of my craft fair season is done and dusted. I have a few days ‘off’ to try and tame this cold – because man, I feel miserable! Thank goodness Doug doesn’t mind selling. I pretty much sat in the background and let him deal with it. The photo is of a traditional…
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Satisfied
Yesterday Doug loaded the van with most of the stuff for the coming craft fairs. There are still a few things left to go in, including the cart we use to transfer all the boxes from van to booth location. This weekend will be the Artisans of the North at the University. We once again…
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Culmination
I’m at the fun bit of weaving – sitting at the loom, contentedly weaving away, piling up the yards/meters. Thinking. Because when everything is going well and you only need surface attention for the task at hand, the mind can go wandering. This morning I was thinking about how cyclic in nature being a professional…
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Bumps
Life is full of bumps, lumps, twists and turns. The last couple of warps that I put onto the AVL I had some errors that required fixing and this time I decided I needed something that would be simpler to set up. It’s also something that many people find attractive – a twill block version…
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Be Prepared
With both looms empty and today yet to work, I’m dressing the small loom with a place mat warp. I really don’t like leaving both looms empty when I go away, especially on a long trip with major time zone changes. I come home exhausted and brain dead from jet lag so I really don’t…