Category: https://ko-fi.com/laurafry
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Trying Times
I pressed ‘Pause’ on March 23rd, the last time I did an ‘errand’ (picking up my hearing aids). Since then I have only left the house twice – two days last week I went for a walk in the neighbourhood. Since then I have been in contact with a number of people as we share…
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The Queue
I have always had a queue of warps. One way or another, they have tended to stack up. Now that I have the loom dressed again and it seems to be weaving up nicely (shh – don’t say that too loudly!) it is time to start thinking about the next. I pulled the rust/rose tubes…
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Fibre Events
Our conference wrapped up last year, but there are fibre events all over the continent that are having to cancel, some of them at extremely short notice. Fibres West got the news on Thusday afternoon just as vendors were putting finishing touches on their booths that the show was not going to open Friday morning.…
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Endings
Endings. Can be traumatic. Can be therapeutic. Can be joyous. Today saw some endings. One huge, one little. Little one was finishing the above towels. I called this design waterlilies, partly because it sort of, kind of, reminded me of Monet’s paintings of waterlilies. Same sort of colours, same sort of shapes. Inspiration can come…
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Tradition
This is a photo of heart tea towels on the loom, which is why they look like they are receding into the distance. I follow several folk on line, one of whom is Beau of the Fifth Column. He did a video this morning (well, I saw it this morning) about Valentine’s Day and the…
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New ‘Tip Jar’
A few weeks ago I learned about a new way to contribute to creative folk. It’s a website called Ko-Fi and the premise is that people can contribute to the person the equivalent of a coffee (or units thereof). I have gone and looked at the site several times and after mulling it over I’m…