Category: efficiency
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Consequences
Painted warp scarf – rayon Being of an analytical mind, I suppose one of the benefits is that I am able to sort through various choices (decisions) and follow them through to expected consequences. I think this has made me the weaver I am. Beginning with the idea or concept of a particular kind of…
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Next!
Yesterday Doug beamed the next tea towel warp and this morning I started threading. The ‘bad’ news is that the two cones of 12 singles linen I have left in my stash are actually singles 24. A much finer thread! Since this warp was set up to have singles 12 used on it, my only…
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Forest
700+ ends in 700+ heddles…and somewhere in the last 6 inches is a threading error. Everything was going tickity-boo until the second half of the last full repeat when – instead of an even number of ends at the end of the repeat, I had an uneven number of ends. So, somewhere in that forest…
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In Praise of Limitations and Deadlines
Calvin and Hobbs Talking to someone from F&W Media yesterday I mentioned that I loved deadlines. She laughed and said she would send a schedule of deadlines related to the contract* we were discussing so that I would know when they needed my support materials. Thing is, deadlines and creative limitations can be extremely useful…
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Toot, Toot!
Imagine my surprise when I opened the last issue of Handwoven and spotted this full page ad! The ad doesn’t say it’s a dvd, and I had been wondering about the recent inquiries about my ‘book’…now I know! My heart has been warmed by the positive reviews I’ve seen on line. My hope when I…
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Eye of the Beholder
My Leclerc loom is a ‘rescue’ loom. It came with bumps, dents and dings along with some design issues that I needed modified. But I love my little loom, it is a true work horse and does almost everything I need it to do. To me it is beautiful because it works well and allows…
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Stick Shuttle
Took this photo for a blog post for Craftsy but it’s out of focus so I won’t use it after all. I’m planning on a post about winding weft packages and when using a stick shuttle, I always wind the weft only over one edge of the shuttle in a figure 8. I often see…
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Bench Marks
The Efficient Weaver From time to time I do a check on my productivity. Partly it is a way to see how I’m doing. Partly it is curiousity. With all my health issues and not being able to weave over the summer, I started wondering if I had slipped on my skills. Or was I…
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Bench Marks
The Efficient Weaver From time to time I do a check on my productivity. Partly it is a way to see how I’m doing. Partly it is curiousity. With all my health issues and not being able to weave over the summer, I started wondering if I had slipped on my skills. Or was I…
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Bench Marks
The Efficient Weaver From time to time I do a check on my productivity. Partly it is a way to see how I’m doing. Partly it is curiousity. With all my health issues and not being able to weave over the summer, I started wondering if I had slipped on my skills. Or was I…