Category: https://ko-fi.com/laurafry
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Routine
I’ve managed to make some progress on this warp, and it should come off the loom in the next few days. Overall, I’m pleased enough with these towels made using the ‘mystery’ yarn from my stash. But I have a lot more of it and will not use it up on the current warp.…
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May the Fourth Be With You
Just got a lovely message from someone saying they bought Magic in the Water (because the MAYFLASH15 offer extends until tonight). In this day of ‘AI’ and Google searches that direct a person only to AI related results, I can only say this: I will not use LLM resources if I can possibly avoid…
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Tech Fail
I suppose I should have realized that when I set up the ko-fi discount it was ‘too easy’. I mean, when is computer stuff ever ‘easy’? Such was the case over the weekend when I tried to set up a discount ‘coupon’ for my ko-fi shop. And then could not test the link because…
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Tech Fail
I suppose I should have realized that when I set up the ko-fi discount it was ‘too easy’. I mean, when is computer stuff ever ‘easy’? Such was the case over the weekend when I tried to set up a discount ‘coupon’ for my ko-fi shop. And then could not test the link because…
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Magic in the Water
loom state wet finished When a certain someone took over Twitter I eventually left the site and joined a couple others. One of the sites I joined was BlueSky and over the months I’ve been there I’ve gradually ‘found’ other textile folk. Yesterday a new weaver posted a photo of the very first thing…
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Old Dog, New Tricks
Typically I will do a ‘birthday bash’ sale the first couple of weeks of July. Doing a ‘sale’ generally entails a fair amount of work on my part, so I tend to not do them frequently. It occurred to me last night that ko-fi might offer the option of creating a discount coupon, so I…
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Feedback
From time to time someone will contact me to thank me for ‘what you do for the weaving community’. It’s always a day brightener. My life has been largely shaped by the teachers I have had. The good ones, obviously, but also? The bad ones. Not every teacher is good for every student, and…
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Tradition/Habit
This is a warp, all wound, tied off and dropped into a bin ready to be beamed. Notice anything? It’s not chained. It is just dropped into a bin with the cross on the top. I used to chain my warps. That was, after all, how I’d been taught to do it. But I…
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Spring
Truth be told, this photo is from a few years ago. This winter I doubt we got more than about a foot of snow accumulation, and the snowbanks were almost non-existent. But spring appears to be arriving. Over the weekend, we had the hottest temps ever recorded for the same date since records started…
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That Ol’ Magic in the Water
Over the course of my career I have spent hundreds of hours trying to explain to people what wet finishing is, why it needs to be done, and why I don’t tell people to ‘just wash it’. I have documented the process, in print, in videos, in person and now, remotely. I rather suspect…