Category: road trip
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Arrived
No pictures – just a note that I am here with my friends, south of Seattle. There were some ‘adventures’ along the way, but other than a little hair raising, all is well. Except I can’t find my hair brush. :} I will have to run out tomorrow and buy a new one. Actually I couldn’t…
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Road Trip Adventures
There is nothing quite like travelling for business when you simply must be somewhere at a particular time – and running into ‘adventures’….. While I love being somewhere other than here to teach or learn or sell, sometimes the getting there is more than I can handle. Planes are delayed – or don’t leave at all…
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Plans Change
I’m home early because life happened and plans had to change. First of all, I had an absolutely great time in Quebec. It was wonderful to meet the Quebec weavers. They were warm and sympathetic – not to mention I saw some great textiles. 🙂 But it appears that the healing after my ankle surgery was…
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One Step Forward
Now that the wool/bamboo/silk yarn is all used up, I’ve turned back to the silk gimp warps. I dyed about 2/3’s of them a few weeks ago so I’ve got lots of warps to weave – although there are still 10 left to be dyed (I think). That will have to wait until later in…
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Unforeseen Circumstances
So now my worktable is acting as a surgical gurney. The 10 minute fix has turned into several hours of loom downtime. It’s been a few years since one of the fly shuttle foot switches required repair and it took a lot longer to remove the switch from the protective housing under the loom than…
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Road Trip
I finished off the green warp this afternoon and got the next one beamed, ready to thread. This one is various shades of purples, some more red, some more blue, a little lavender, some of it even a reddish coppery shade. They don’t all show in this photo. If you look really closely you can…
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Catch Up Day
One of the ways I deal with stress and turn off the thought squirrels is to just go and ‘do’. For many years I have used weaving as a working meditation. It’s one way to turn off the what-if’s and stay in the now instead of trying to forecast the future. Not that I’m a…
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Fibres West!
The postcards for Fibres West 2011 arrived yesterday. http://www.fibreswest.com In addition to a number of workshops there are two lectures (free with admission) which are not to be missed. Ivan Sayers, fashion historian and raconteur of the first order will present a lecture at 2 pm on Saturday called Surface Embellishments. I’ve attended a couple…
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Road Trip
One loom with stand, two spinning wheels, one large suitcase, one spool rack with 40 spools, bag full of slides I need to go through tomorrow night at Allan and Sheila’s, miscellaneous odds and ends plus two computers and my over night suitcase still be be loaded. That van is full! In addition to dropping…
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Week One
No pictures yet. Late last year my service provider changed the terms of my Blackberry contract so I now have to pay for email up and downloads so posting photos from my phone now cost way too much. Unfortunately I didn’t even take any photos with my phone, but Heather did so I will be…