Category: mistakes

  When I chose to make weaving my ‘career’, all I had to go on was a gut feeling and big dreams. I really had no clue as to what I was doing, or what would be required.  I did have a broad range of experience to draw upon, which helped.  But what fueled me…

  ‘failure #2’ This is the second ‘failed’ attempt to weave this design.  And, it’s why I weave ‘samples’, sometimes full-sized! There are a few ‘technical’ issues with this project, and I was very grateful I wove it before I started the ‘actual’ items. Number one issue is the combination of a ‘fancy’ twill with…

  ‘failure #2’ This is the second ‘failed’ attempt to weave this design.  And, it’s why I weave ‘samples’, sometimes full-sized! There are a few ‘technical’ issues with this project, and I was very grateful I wove it before I started the ‘actual’ items. Number one issue is the combination of a ‘fancy’ twill with…

  It’s no secret that I am not perfect and prone to making mistakes.  Such was the case with the current warp. Yesterday I finished setting up the loom and wanting to know if it was going to work the way I wanted it to, I decided to go ahead and quickly weave a ‘sample’…

  The internet has done a great job of promoting pithy comments, sometimes quite eloquently.  I think my faourite is ‘Don’t hang onto a mistake just because you spent a long time making it’. For me the break through was using something called risk assessment and deciding what was most precious to me – my…