Category: SOS
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Shoulders of Giants
As a new weaver, I was keenly aware of how little I knew so I bought books. Lots of books. Books held knowledge and I wanted to learn. Even though I had an in-person class in weaving, it soon became apparent that it was going to take a very long time to even begin…
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Breaking the Ice
When I found out I had shingles, I’d just cut the last of a warp off the loom and had about 20 towels ready to be hemmed. Thing was, I couldn’t see properly. My left eye was so swollen up I could barely open it and I went from having poor depth perception to…none. …
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Now, More Than Ever
In many ways, hand weaving tea towels seems futile, like spitting into the wind, given the current events happening. In many ways it feels like an act of subversion – doing something as meaningless in the grand scheme of things as hand weaving a tea towel when the whole world seems to be headed…
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Now, More Than Ever
In many ways, hand weaving tea towels seems futile, like spitting into the wind, given the current events happening. In many ways it feels like an act of subversion – doing something as meaningless in the grand scheme of things as hand weaving a tea towel when the whole world seems to be headed…
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Heart Day
It has been nearly 14 years since my younger brother died of unsuspected heart disease. And because of that, mine was diagnosed. I remember the last Christmas dinner we had, Doug and me, Don and mom. I remember how Don and I had had a number of conversations over the preceding year saying how…
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Juggling
Someone new to teaching on line did a recap of their experience which kind of made me stop and think about teaching generally, and teaching on line specifically. I taught my first workshop in September of 1975. I knew very little about spinning (which is what I was teaching – I know, kind of…
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Sunny Day
After several days of snow/sleet/rain, we have achieved yellow thingee in the sky today. Since seeing the eye doc on Tuesday, I have been noticing tiny baby steps of improvement. Yesterday I managed to finish trimming the last of the scarves, then put away all the stuff required for the pressing and trimming. Today…
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Launch Day
So today is launch day for the SOS class, The Intentional Weaver. It was meant to be a happy day for me, and instead I’m still dealing with a body that seems bent on making me miserable. I have an appointment – in person – with my family doctor, this afternoon, and I really…
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Weaver’s Bottom
“Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play. A weaver by trade…” It has been said that Nick Bottom got his name as a play on words because so many weaver’s had ‘weaver’s bottoms’. It was a known work related injury. “Ischial bursitis (weaver’s bottom or…