Category: mistakes

I had a mentor who would greet weavers with the question “What mistakes have you made recently?” Somehow I could never make myself take that approach. There are too many people who are ‘afraid’ of making mistakes, even though that is the ‘best’ way to learn anything. Mess it up. Fix it. Record Note To…

  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…