Category: Magic in the Water
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Fast or Slow
Efficiency and ergonomics are integral to any ‘slow’ craft, like textiles. When I discovered weaving, I was not expecting it to be so physical. I was not expecting to enjoy the physicality of it as much as I have done. Once I fine tuned my processes and developed good working methods, the end result of…
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Shameless Self Promotion
Now that American Thanksgiving is over and we are in ‘Black Friday’, time to remind folk that I have done books. Weave a V is available from me directly, the other two are available at blurb and can be either PDF or hard copy. Weave a V is hard copy only and $25 includes shipping. There…
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A Little Knowledge
In English there are a couple of sayings that I think about at times: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Or: I know just enough to be dangerous. When it comes to learning a new skill, there are levels of knowledge. When you don’t know what you don’t know, you don’t know that you…
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Clue by Four
I’m not stupid, but I can be incredibly stubborn and therefore slow to change course when I set my mind to a goal. There have been several times during my life when The Universe (or whatever) has had to resort to a handy ‘clue by four’ to make me see reason and change what I’m…
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Control
I think one of the things that many weavers have in common is a desire to be in ‘control’. We aim for perfection and we are disappointed when we fail – yet again – to be ‘perfect’. It was a revelation to me just how much control I needed and how much the craft of…
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Control
I think one of the things that many weavers have in common is a desire to be in ‘control’. We aim for perfection and we are disappointed when we fail – yet again – to be ‘perfect’. It was a revelation to me just how much control I needed and how much the craft of…
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Ripples
I have – more than likely – shared more than I should have in terms of getting this book ‘born’. OTOH, it’s my blog, I get to vent how and when I want, so one final post about The Intentional Weaver (I lie, I’ll probably bring it up again, but the conference is about to…
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The Next Step
This photo shows the difference between an ‘ordinary’ 2 ply cotton yarn and seine twine. They are both yarn. They are both cotton. But they are – quite obviously – not the same. Writing a book is one thing. Selling it is quite another. A couple of people have asked me if I’m happy now…
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Precipice
Over the past couple of days I have been going through my inbox, deleting some of the +7000 emails that have been living in there. I would watch the number count grow and think to myself that I really needed to deal with it because a lot of them are ‘spam’ or lists I’m subscribed…
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Another Show, Another Year
some of my stash that needs using up We are home from Calgary and the last ‘big’ show of this year. The guild will be having a sale in the guild room and I have a small number of ‘orphans’ and end-of-the-line textiles that I will put on deep discount, but that weekend is more…