Category: teaching
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New Year
Since time is a human construct and my new year begins now, not on January 1… Marketing is a constant when you are self-employed, whether you are selling a product or a service. If people don’t know about you, how can they purchase what you are selling? In the 1980 and ’90’s I sold a…
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New-ish Weavers
Four of six exhausted weavers, with some of their weaving from the weekend. This workshop is actually designed for weavers who might be considered intermediate. Usually a lot of my time is spent explaining how the weave structures work to improve theoretical understanding of the included samples. This group wasn’t quite to that…
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Hidden Costs
One of the threads (ha!) on the #fairfiberwage topic on the internet is that of the hidden costs that go on regardless of the actual teaching fee being requested by teachers. The beta edits are beginning to arrive. I have completed two, both of which were extensive (plus my own, done on a hard…
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Labour Day
Like most women of my age, I was raised to question my own worth. It wasn’t just my parents that instilled this in me – it was part of how society was in the 1950’s. Women had been encouraged to enter the work force during the war, then were pushed back into the home and…
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Romantic Notions
People who have not taught, especially when long distance travel is involved, have such a romantic notion about what goes on before the class ever happens. First the teacher has to come up with a focus for the workshop – the general topic. Then the various drafts/projects have to be designed. The photo above is…
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Dealing with ‘Rejection’
Abby Franquemont took the words right out of my mouth with this essay for PLY magazine. Unlike Abby, I actually wanted to teach. I started ‘local’, then began to widen my circle of applications. For every successful application I sent out, four or five (or more) were ‘rejected’. I wasn’t well known, had not written a…
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Growing Pile
The pile of scarves continues to grow. I am trying to weave two scarves a day, although I don’t always make it. But if I don’t set a goal, I don’t do anything. Right now that just isn’t acceptable because the fall shows will be here all too soon and I have other things I…
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No ‘Sale’
So, it looks like Canada Post is going to be shut down after all. Since my usual ‘sale’ is ‘buy two, get free shipping’ and I just cannot afford to use courier to send things, the ‘birthday’ sale will not happen this year. I was hoping that they would settle today, but so far I…
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Bottom Line
Stack of warps waiting to be woven One of the things that makes me sad is seeing photos on the internet of people sitting at looms with poor posture/position. Why does that make me sad? Because I know these people are inviting injury to their bodies. It is one reason I really like teaching brand…
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Bottom Line
Stack of warps waiting to be woven One of the things that makes me sad is seeing photos on the internet of people sitting at looms with poor posture/position. Why does that make me sad? Because I know these people are inviting injury to their bodies. It is one reason I really like teaching brand…