Category: Olds College master weaving
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Passages
Some of the homework for the Olds master weaving program. Plus yarn. Stash to be used up. Plus bins of warps, wound, ready to be woven. When I get to them. Life is full of passages. Some smooth, some rocky. But that is just life. The first time your heart gets broken. Getting fired. Having…
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Guest Post – Carol M
Sewing Straight Lines Before retiring and embarking on the Master Weaver journey, I spent a good many years involved in one way or another with the garment industry. For a lot of those years, I trained sewing machine operators to use commercial sewing machines in performing garment assembly procedures and techniques. The beginning of this…
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Details, Details
I’ve been working on a research project the past while and today wound the next two ‘full sized sample’ warps to explore options. While rough sleying this warp I started thinking but the upcoming Olds classes in Cape Breton and Olds, AB and about how weaving, as such, wasn’t all that difficult. It was just…
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Classroom Learning
We need three more people to register to have the second level class ‘go’ in Prince George. I’m still waiting to hear about the level one. For Americans, these prices are in those cheap Canadian dollars, so a good buy. And you get to spend six whole days with moi, talking about textiles and weaving.…
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Treasures
Another box of homework. This year’s class has included a letter to me with their homework, many of them outlining the lessons learned that aren’t shown in the weaving/samples. To me those lessons are the most valuable of all because the biggest lesson to learn is how to think about the creation of textiles.…
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The Life so Short…
…the craft so long to learn. This quote is attributed both to Hippocrates and Geoffrey Chaucer. The exact wording seems to depend on who is translating it. Either way, it is all too accurate. Any craft takes years to explore, learn, master. Learning can be random, trying this, trying that, without a concrete goal in…
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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…
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The Power of Intention
The power of intention. Makes for a great motto, but what does it mean? For me it means I have a goal that I am working towards. In life. In weaving. I intend to make something – a particular something. In order to accomplish my goal, I have to have certain skills. Particular knowledge. How…
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The Craft of Writing
When I was much younger…(do you hear the music?)…I dreamed of becoming an Author. I even took English Lit 101 in hopes of honing my writing skills. But my stories were stilted, my characters lacklustre. Instead I turned to writing long rambling letters, first by hand, then on my old Bison 8086 computer, using Wordstar…