Category: Olds Fibre Week
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With Hope and Optimism
Continuing Education <coned@oldscollege.ca> 8:43 AM (15 minutes ago) to Olds College is excited to announce that we are now accepting proposals for workshops to be delivered at Fibre Week 2021. If you know of someone else who may be interested in submitting a proposal, please feel free to share this email with them. We invite all…
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Lesson Planning
And so it begins. This will be my first time teaching level four so I printed out the file the college sent and am now going through it to see what all is necessary, both in terms of my bringing appropriate teaching aids and a group warp. For level one and two, the instructor sets…
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And On We Go…
The conference registration is ticking along (we’d love to see more people sign up – it’s gonna be a time!) and it is time to lift my head up out of that particular deep well and start looking beyond mid-June and to what comes next. Now that I’m beginning to feel better – for however…
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Weaving to Spec
One of the things I needed to learn when I became a weaver was to figure out how to weave to ‘spec’. What does that mean? It means I had to weave to a certain quality – given specifications. At first those specifications were determined by me – I wanted a very particular quality of…
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Planting Seeds
On social media feeds I have been seeing people with their spring seed catalogues and packets, making plans for the future. A sense of optimism prevails and we make our plans, plant our seeds. And this is how I feel about teaching. Planting seeds. I tend to spread my little nuggets of information as broadly…
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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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Nothing Ventured
So here is the initial sample I wove yesterday and wet finished. I gained valuable information from weaving and wet finishing it. For example, initially I liked the top most bit the best, but after wet finishing it had not softened and felt very plain weave ‘stiff’ while the lower plain weave bit woven with…
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Planning Stages
Hard to believe, but I’m already working on my 2017 calendar… So far all dates are tentative, subject to change, but here is what is in the planning: (November 26/27, 2016 – Mug Rugs and More, Prince George Fibre Arts guild room) 2017 May 13-18 Olds Level One, Prince George May 20-25 Olds Level Two,…
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Summing Up
How to sum up an extraordinary experience? Do I talk about the campus, with its gardens? The merchant mall? (Yes, I exercised my plastic.). The fellow teachers? Getting to know two of the spinning teachers? Getting to know the other weaving teachers better? Do I wax eloquent about the supportive and friendly…
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Embarrassment of Riches
This is just some of the yarn I am trying to use up. So far I have woven a few warps of two scarves each, and wound six more. And I haven’t even scratched the surface because there are many more boxes of yarn still in storage…this was just an effort to design a…