Category: craft fairs
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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…
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Deadline: Critical
Someone asked me recently how I keep track of what needs doing when. As usual, there’s not really an easy – or short – answer to that. I keep calendars where I note events coming up. Since I parse that information best by seeing it in print, I have several ‘paper’ calendars, plus one erasable…
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Planning Well in Advance
Fighting a low grade headache today made thinking challenging. I realized I needed to see the shape of the conference so first I printed out a calendar (white sheet at the top) but the squares were just too small. Sometimes it pays to be a pack rat, and I found a large roll of (very…
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Satisfying
It has been about exactly 2.5 years since the by-pass surgery, so a little over 3.5 years since I started to notice that things were starting to deteriorate. I was warned that recovery from such surgery could be 2-3 years before getting back to ‘normal’ – whatever that might be, given I’m also that much…
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Next!
(click on the image to see the whole thing) With deadlines looming (yeah, I know) I can’t waste any time so the table runner warp is going into the loom right away. There was time yesterday to get it beamed, this morning I was busy, and this afternoon I am threading. I usually do more…
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Multi-pronged
There has been conversation on one of the internet groups I belong to about what it takes to be a professional in the leisure/hobby textile profession. An oxymoron, of sorts, but not really. Because there are many people who follow the profession of teaching or producing textiles to a greater or lesser extent. There…
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Slowly
I forget how many towels are in this stack – 70? 80? Doug went pressing yesterday so there are 20 more waiting for me to hem while these wait for Doug to have time to go pressing again. Plus all the ones that are in the later stages of production – some already tagged, some…
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Road Tripping
Tomorrow I will repack my bins and cases and get ready for the ANWG Conference taking place in Victoria, BC. Mary and I leave Wednesday morning. We will mosey southwards, taking a more scenic route through the interior of the province, along the Sea to Sky Highway and stay overnight in Squamish, then try for a fairly…
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Team Effort
The pile, she grows… Doug has been supportive of my efforts in many ways, right from the start. Over the years he’s provided financial support, co-signed loans when I needed to build a credit rating (yes, I’m that old I needed a male person to vouch for me to begin with), built equipment and tools,…
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Stash
I routinely moan about the size of my stash. Admittedly it’s much too large – I have way too much yarn. My goal in life is to weave it down. That said, having a large stash with lots and lots of colours allows me to play/experiments with combining colours. This warp isn’t particularly innovative but…