Category: Magic in the Water
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Be Consistent
I’ve said it before and will say it again – more than once, guaranteed. If you can’t be perfect, be consistent. One of the reasons attempting for ‘perfect’ is counter productive is that our materials are rarely perfect. Yarns spun from fibres are reasonably smooth – or as smooth as someone can make them considering…
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Fatigue Brain Fog
Yes it’s March. No, winter isn’t over yet. (This photo is from a couple of years ago – the snow is actually much, much deeper/higher this year.) But the new year is well established and the calendar keeps rolling, day by day. Deadlines come – and go. And I am finally starting to feel better…
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Advertising/Marketing/Promoting
I was reminded recently that I haven’t mentioned the things I sell for a while – especially Magic in the Water now being available for sale in either PDF or print-on-demand. Then there is the book/monograph I published in English for Kerstin Fro:berg, Weave a V. If you are in Europe, you might like to…
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Impostor Syndrom
There are so many ways we wind up feeling like an impostor! For years I didn’t quite believe that I had written a ‘real’ book, in spite of its physical presence on my shelf. When it went out of print, I struggled again with the fact that I had actually written a book. There were…
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Magic
Just a few minutes into the first part of the wash cycle the colour begins to develop After the first complete wash cycle the brown is now a deep rich colour and the green a warm mossy shade. You may remember seeing pictures of this warp on the loom where the difference in colour between…
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Labour Intensive
I got home late afternoon on Tuesday (leaving Richmond at 5 am). Yesterday was filled with appointments – including a change in the date of my dental surgery. It will take place on Monday, not a week from now. So things have to be changed around in order to leave me some time for recovery.…
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An Embarrassment of Riches
When I decided to write/publish Magic in the Water (available for sale at Weavolution.com – join the Magic in the Water group and follow directions) it was because there was almost no information on wet finishing in one place geared towards the hand weaver. I saw a need and decided to fill it. So why…
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Experts
The turquoise in this yarn is hand dyed so I used hot water to wet finish it because I expected the cyan dye to be somewhat fugitive. And so it was. Dealing with fugitive dye is one reason to wet finish, either yarn or cloth. I learned to spin in the early 1970’s…
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Year in Review
As each calendar year ends, people are encouraged to make resolutions for the coming year. I don’t do that, because I have goals that I work on all the time. Some goals are long range – spanning years – some are short term – as in what do I want to get done today, this…
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Year in Review
As each calendar year ends, people are encouraged to make resolutions for the coming year. I don’t do that, because I have goals that I work on all the time. Some goals are long range – spanning years – some are short term – as in what do I want to get done today, this…