Category: SOS
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Launch Day!
Tomorrow the Sectional Beaming class on School of Sweet Georgia is set to launch. This class was particularly challenging because I didn’t want to just show the process, but to include information on how to use the equipment in ‘interesting’ ways, including how to beam an ‘ordinary’ warp wound on a board or mill. …
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Things Suck Less
I first started having acute pain in my hip last December. It’s been nearly a year now that I’ve been dragging my right leg around (quite literally some days), and dealing with chronic pain from various sources. Getting in to see the local pain doctor was a watershed event, and I finally feel as…
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First Snow
winter solstice last year As we settle into winter, the sun continues it’s journey southwards and soon enough the snow will not be a scattering of flakes on the ground, but an accumulation. There have been many ‘things’ happening chez nous, many of them with an element of stress about them. But life is…
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Flexible
books waiting to be mailed (photo from earlier this year) It’s a bit…fun…self-publishing your own books. Not only do you get to write the thing in the first place, guide it through publication with the assistance (if you are wise) of an editor, you then get to market it. During the ‘birth’ process there…
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Launch Date
Got word today that the Sectional Beaming class will launch on Nov. 9, 2023. This class is for people who are beyond beginner level, and want to up their game, maybe beam longer warps, do some ‘production’ weaving, maybe weave yardage or towels for everyone in the family for Christmas, or play around with…
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Winter’s Coming!
This morning we had frost. Not the first time, but it has been a ‘rare’ mild autumn with no frost until well into October. Our new ‘normal’? I am making slow but steady progress on weaving down the mercerized cotton. The current warp plus one more ought to weave up as much of that…
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Inflation…
…is a thing Yup. Inflation is definitely a ‘thing’. Recently I had to increase the price of The Intentional Weaver to $72.00 Canadian. I have left the prices for the pdf the same, and have not increased the prices on Magic, either format. Just as for any other industry, the printing industry is dealing with…
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Learning About Weaving
What a busy week it was! Hopefully things will begin to calm down now. I haven’t woven since Sunday and I’m missing my time at the loom. The latest class at School of Sweet Georgia has launched. A deep dive into the three ‘major’ lace weaves – huck, Swedish and Bronson. Included in the…
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Monday, Monday
Yesterday was the most Monday of Mondays. The whole weekend was a scramble of trying to get The Book sorted through the valiant efforts of my editor grappling with software and new/different websites with varying protocols. The ‘finishing’ for the birthing of a book is a trial of perseverance. Plans got changed, then changed…
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Hiatus
Today isn’t the way I thought it would be – for a number of reasons. Instead of doing what I thought I would be doing, I have been given a bit of a hiatus. A bit of a pause from the planned activities. OTOH, there are lots of things to *be* done. I just…