Category: Sunday Seminars
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In Real Life
A few years ago I got to know about a person because of their on line posts, then briefly met them in real life at a fibre event. There was no time to do more than chat because fibre events are, by their very nature, not conducive to having any kind of in depth…
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Textile Travels
Over the course of my life, I’ve actually travelled a few miles. As a child we routinely did Sunday Drives wherever we could get to – and back from – home in a day. Mom would pack a picnic and we would set off. As a child I needed medical care in Vancouver, and…
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Shetland
This morning’s Sunday Seminar was with Deborah Robson talking about Shetland fleeces and textiles. It was a fascinating overview of the characteristics of Shetland fleeces – which are varied – and a peek at some of the textiles that Shetland is so famous for. Shetland is definitely one of those places in the world…
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Necessary Tasks
Since November I have woven rather a lot of tea towels. With no craft fairs and little other opportunity to sell much, as each warp was woven, wet finished, hemmed and final press given, the stacks were simply put on another shelf and ignored. Doug has begun tagging them now, which means my work…
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Deborah Chandler
I had a Zoom meeting with Deborah Chandler this morning getting comfortable with Zoom. It was great to talk and learn more about her and I’m looking forward to her Zoom seminar tomorrow. Just finished reading Jann Arden’s book If I Knew Then and part of her ‘message’ was that good things come out…
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Another Week
Sunday has become the ‘standard’ for a new week – Sunday through Saturday. We are so used to this that one time I bought a pocket planner that had Monday as the first day in the calendar layout and it caused me so much confusion I replaced it with my usual ‘norm’. The hours…
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Stress Fatigue
Stress wears on a body. We have had a year of pandemic stress on top of whatever else we are dealing with and the stress hormones flood our systems. We are in a constant state of alertness and alarm. And we get tired. Fatigued. I went through a trough of energy in August and…
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Maintenance
Work has come to a halt on the spinning front. I have an electric spinner, and it has, slowly over time, been working more and more erratically, as in not holding the speed it has been set to spin at. At first it was only a mild fluctuation, but gradually the variation has gotten…
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Sunday Musings
Today was the first of the Sunday Seminar Series and it was…bittersweet. I have so much missed getting together with like minded textile folk, just sitting down with them, maybe passing samples or finished items back and forth, my fingers feeling the quality of the cloth, and just talking. About textiles. About life. About following…
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Rolling Right Along
Yesterday I finished the dark navy weft and wove the first with green weft. I’m actually liking this combination – a lot. I might make this side the ‘right’ side because more green shows and the other side might be a bit dark. Right now it’s too hard to see and really know how…