Category: https://ko-fi.com/laurafry
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Of Tariffs
One brave person ordered a towel as a gift, which I got into the mail last Friday. It was too late for the truck to Vancouver, so it didn’t get there until Monday, and when the post office attempted to transfer it to the custody of US Customs/USPS, welp, I don’t know what happened, but…
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Welcoming Change
I recently became aware of James Fell and thought I would pick up one of his books. It wasn’t what I expected from a ‘sweary’ historian. Instead it was – how shall I put it – self-help? Self-improvement? But I started reading it in part because I’m always interested in people’s ‘story’ and the…
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Expectations
The warp is beamed, ready to thread. But I’m having a lot of pain so I don’t think I’ll be managing to begin threading today. My next back injection is Tuesday, then 3 days of ‘light duties’ and then I’ll see how I’m feeling. I may try threading a bit as part of those…
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Chaos
When I woke up this morning it was to the ‘news’ that the US president has – after two days – paused the tariffs. Again. Wonder if we claim ‘time served’ instead of starting the clock over again, every he has a mind to begin again? No doubt the US automobile industry explained in words…
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It’s Snowing!
Snowflake border tea towel Over all I’m pleased enough with these. They are 2/16 warp and weft, woven in a snowflake twill around the border with a plain/basket weave centre field They are not ‘perfect’. It’s difficult to control the beat when changing between two weave structures with such different take up rates (and…
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Window of Opportunity
The snow isn’t as deep as this – yet – but it will be a white xmas! There is a tiny window of opportunity for USians to continue to benefit from the US-CDN dollar exchange rate but it will be closing very soon. I will be posting new tea towels to my ko-fi shop…
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Touching the Hem of Perfection
three piece suit, featured in Magic in the Water – awarded a ribbon at the ANWG conference in Victoria in 1997 for ‘technical excellence’ There are times that I have touched the hem of perfection. Not many. I might count them on one hand, if I think really hard. The majority of things I…
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Touching the Hem of Perfection
three piece suit, featured in Magic in the Water – awarded a ribbon at the ANWG conference in Victoria in 1997 for ‘technical excellence’ There are times that I have touched the hem of perfection. Not many. I might count them on one hand, if I think really hard. The majority of things I…
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It Depends!
Two yarns, same number of yards per pound, NOT the same thickness! Yesterday I saw a conversation online about the ‘proper’ epi for a particular size of yarn woven in plain weave. As usual, some people strongly urged people to use 20 epi, others strongly advocated for 16-18…
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It Isn’t Finished Until…
after compression (plasticine) Yesterday I wove the first samples and today I will weave the next two. The first two look good on the loom, which may mean the second two will not. But either way I’ll weave them and judge them both after wet finishing. Saw somewhere on line a knitter asking if you…