Category: teaching
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Old Lady
Then… When I first took up weaving, intending it to be my profession, I resented the fact that the stereotype of a weaver was a little old lady in running shoes. Now I are one. The above photos are from a conference held in Victoria, now a very long time ago. How do I know? …
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Tender
magnification of seine twine and a 2 ply cotton yarn – seine twine is generally made up of several plys and much more tightly twisted and an ‘ordinary’ 2 ply cotton yarn At a recent class I talked a wee bit about working with ‘tender’* yarn. About how more twist will make a short staple…
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Wheat from Chaff
I read a blog by Jim Wright for a number of reasons. He’s a writer and a political commentator, beholden to neither end of the political spectrum. This morning his blog talked about information overload and how difficult it is to separate the wheat from the chaff. In context of my adding to the overburden of…
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Last Time?
So. Here I go again. For the ‘last’ time? I made the decision earlier in the year that I would not accept workshop bookings from guilds. It had all just gotten to be…too much. Too much scrambling trying to find several groups in a regional area to keep travel costs lower. Too much travel agent…
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Getting Started
Newer weavers sometimes ask me how they can get started in terms of teaching. In this day and age, there are all sorts of opportunities that were simply not dreamt of when I started. The internet is a powerful tool for getting your name ‘out there’. If the person isn’t a teacher by training, I…
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Cha, Cha, Changes,
One of the things that one hopefully learns as they begin to master this craft is how things are likely to change when what you are doing changes. I know I’ve posted about this before, but that was after I did it ‘wrong’. This time, I’m hoping I will have done it ‘right’, right from…
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And Life Goes On
I came home to a boat load of critical deadlines which took me several days to wrestle to completion. It was a stressful few days while I dealt with them, several times messing up because I was rushed, or not thinking clearly, trying to bushwhack my way through my must-be-done list. Lurking in the background…
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One Down…
I use the living room floor as a staging area for my trips. While this is an old photo, my floor will soon look just like this again – or very similar. Some changes have been made. For one thing, the attache case that has traveled with me for literally thousands of miles over the…
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One Down…
I use the living room floor as a staging area for my trips. While this is an old photo, my floor will soon look just like this again – or very similar. Some changes have been made. For one thing, the attache case that has traveled with me for literally thousands of miles over the…
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One Down…
I use the living room floor as a staging area for my trips. While this is an old photo, my floor will soon look just like this again – or very similar. Some changes have been made. For one thing, the attache case that has traveled with me for literally thousands of miles over the…