Category: teaching
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Life, Reimangined
Once again Life has taught me that you should never get too attached to your plans because when Life Happens, you are not in control anymore. Doesn’t matter what plans you may have, other things suddenly need to take priority. I won’t go into the details of my health issues except to say that once…
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Olds Fibre Week
Here we all are at the end of the week. Tired, yes. Happy? Hope so. I know I am. We covered three main weave structures in Level 2 – Twills, Overshot and Double Weave/Wide. In addition to this we looked at cotton fibre characteristics, touched on Profile Drafting (as one way to explain the similarity…
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Mad Scramble
Life keeps tossing small grenades at us. Nothing critical, at least not yet, and I’m keeping positive thoughts that they will have been more flash than bang. But of course I have also been up to my old tricks trying to squeeze one more thing into my schedule here, one more there, generally at the…
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Customer Satisfaction/Service
Glamour shot of the orange/beige towels One of the things I did a few years ago (quite a few years ago – pre-internet days) was take a class on marketing. One of the sessions was on Customer Service and Satisfaction. One of the bits of trivia that stuck in my head was that a happy…
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It’s Over!
No pictures, sorry. You will have to take my word for it that we had a great time. 😉 The weather has been absolutely delightful. It was almost a pity we were inside, but the studio windows opened so we did have some fresh air. And a person or two did go for a walk…
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Cluttering Up
video camera, plastic tub, samples, tripod as well as other stuff on either side – clutter central I’m feeling just a tad overwhelmed at the minute. I’m sure the grey day outside isn’t helping. While attempting to deal with some of the paperwork on my desk I suddenly remembered the extension of the experiment for…
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Crossroads
And we’re back, leaping into the fray…so to speak. The chartreuse warp is ready to weave. In fact, after I took this photo I decided I wanted to test to make sure I didn’t have anything to ‘fix’ before I began in earnest so I tossed a few inches of a contrasting weft just to…
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Let the Show Commence!
Set up started at 1 pm today and we were hard pressed to get everything out on display. In fact, we didn’t. There are several boxes under the shelves as over stock and hopefully lots will sell so we can put that out on Saturday. My seminar is going ahead although I’m not sure how…
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Retro
next warp with scratch notes, draft and yarn ready for warp winding Making slow but steady progress, next up is a linen sample for the Big Project. In many cases I have been able to combine my ‘sampling’ with ordinary production. But I don’t normally weave a lot of 100% linen fabric so this one…
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A Little Pretty
What with one thing and another, a little blast of ‘pretty’ was very welcome today. I had intended to take photos of the class and some of the things they accomplished over the two days but once I’m in teaching mode, I’m not in blogging mode, I guess. Long story short I forgot all about…