Category: place mats
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No Rest
This afternoon I started dressing the small loom again, mainly because I have an order for this colour of mats. I didn’t promise delivery before Christmas, but I’d like to get them done and shipped – and paid for. Because the show season didn’t go as well as I would have liked. I knew I…
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Seasons/Cycles
People sometimes forget that for me, weaving is a year round, full time job. And so when I appear at a craft fair, the contents of my booth do not reflect just a few weeks or even months of work, but at times, years. Since I have never yet actually sold out of anything in…
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Rolling Deadlines
We got home last night and are still dealing with a time zone change of 9 hours. One of the benefits, so to speak, is that my body thinks it is ‘later’ than it actually is local time, so I got up ‘early’ and got started on my day. I’m trying to stick to the…
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Be Prepared
With both looms empty and today yet to work, I’m dressing the small loom with a place mat warp. I really don’t like leaving both looms empty when I go away, especially on a long trip with major time zone changes. I come home exhausted and brain dead from jet lag so I really don’t…
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Be Prepared
With both looms empty and today yet to work, I’m dressing the small loom with a place mat warp. I really don’t like leaving both looms empty when I go away, especially on a long trip with major time zone changes. I come home exhausted and brain dead from jet lag so I really don’t…
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Labour Intensive
Why do I weave, anyway? Such a hard question to answer. All I know is that it called to me, over and over again, until I could no longer ignore the siren call of the yarns, the equipment. Frankly I could have made a whole lot more money in a more ‘traditional’ job, one where…
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Procrastination for the Win?
The past year has been so stressful with one thing after another I find myself completely derailed. I find no appetite for doing what needs doing, so I am procrastinating by doing things that really aren’t very high on my to-be-done list, but need doing at some point. So today, instead of firing up the…
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Hurry Up and Wait
There are times when Life Happens in such a way as to reorder all your priorities. So it has been at chez Fry for the past week. Unfortunately it is also a waiting game so nothing productive can be done about the situation except wait for answers. Yesterday I got to the loom, but…
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Stacked
Having done an inventory of what I’ve got ready for the fall shows, I was able to tell what colours I needed to make in order to have a good selection for sale. While Mary was here, I wound warps and here are five ready to go. I also noticed I was low on natural…
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Counting Down the Days
With an estimate of ‘sometime in January’ for my surgery to happen, I’m starting to count down the days. As it is the 14th today, that means that I should hear from the surgeon’s office any time now and I’m beginning to look at what else I’d like to accomplish before I’m on weaving hiatus.…