Category: Next Big Project 2023
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40 Plus Years
Someone posted today that they were going to do something that made them anxious but they were going to do it anyway. Then asked if ‘you’ were doing something that made ‘you’ anxious today? Happens that I read that post right after making an appointment to meet with my editor at 11 am. As…
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Polishing
if it were easy, everyone would be doing it… It seems I have written all the essays my ‘muse’ insisted I write. My alpha reader has returned the edits, which I have used to update my copy. And now? Polishing. In spite of the original writing, my initial editing, my alpha reader editing, now…
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Life Got Busy
Instead of a week with only one trip out of the house it has turned into a string of trips out of the house, which means my plans for this week got tossed, like a salad. However I DID manage to finally get the next warp weaving and wove one towel before lunch. I…
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Queue
It’s said that the word ‘queue’ is just a q with a line of ue’s after it. So here’s the latest draft in the queue. It’s not ‘done’ yet. I started with one of the other drafts and messed around with the elements in it and in 30 minutes arrived at this stage. Now that…
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Shed Geometry
The Louet Megado has been highly refined so that a loom with quite a ‘short’ distance between breast and back beam creates a rather large shed. The above photo is the warp at rest, under tension. The shuttle race is slightly ‘off’ level when it is at rest. (This is not a ‘fault’…
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Binders
I got binders. Six at the minute. The one on the top contains the essays I wrote after sending the first 25 to my alpha reader and which I worked on while we were away. I got those sent to the alpha reader yesterday after updating my Word files with the corrections I’d noted…
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Coming up Daisies
A little hard to see underneath the breast beam, but I wanted to show how this one is turning out. I had a long hard think about what colours I had left and the drafts I’d designed. There are three in the queue, but rather than weave them in order, I decided this particular…
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Learning/Teaching
Thinking about the trip to Vancouver next week, knowing there really won’t be time (or energy) to visit Sweet Georgia. My life seems to be focused entirely on keeping this body going. Thinking about the essays. Brain fog is pretty thick right now and the Muse is quiet. For now. For which I’m grateful…
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Cautiously Optimistic
After a week of stress for a number of reasons, I am feeling cautiously optimistic this morning. The fact that we have had a couple days of sunshine has surely helped while I adjust to daylight ‘savings’ time. (What we are ‘saving’ I’ve never been sure and would be delighted to be on standard…
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A Little Organization
One of the things that comes in handy when working on a big project is space enough to get organized. Lacking the space, I have to make do with what is available. In this case, the floor of my office. With edits beginning to come in, I was needing to get more stream-lined in…