Category: Lynn’s legacy
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Mistakes
One of my mentors always used to say “If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t learning anything.” And would then share her latest ‘mistakes’ and the lessons she’d learned from them. So very early in my career I learned that displeasing results were not terminal, just a stepping stone on the journey of learning. This…
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Tricks We Play on Ourselves
These three cones are part of the inheritance I received a few years ago. Lynn had an eye for a bargain and would routinely buy yarns on deep discount, not necessarily with any project in mind, just because it was ‘cheap’ and too good a deal to pass on. When I sorted through her literally…
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Lynn’s Legacy
next in the queue – the lighter coloured cones on the right 30 yard warp cut off the loom and mounted onto the work table to be cut apart and serged This evening I finished weaving the cream warp, cut it off the loom and readied it for the next step in the process –…