Category: teaching
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Critical Condition
With the arrival of March, my next crop of deadlines has just gone ‘critical’. Doug is winding the box of skeins on the floor onto cones so that I can weave samples with them. He is also winding pirns to be woven on the AVL lurking in the background. In the foreground, I am winding…
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Second Verse…
…same as the first… Turns out this warp is the same length as the last, so the last one was also about 14 meters. And, since I was able to nurse it through to the end, I won’t bother cutting off mid way and re-tying, I will just nurse this one through to the end,…
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Day Four
Still haven’t figured out how to get photos from my iPad onto the blog, so no pictures. The group is small but enthusiastic. Lots of questions, lots of talking, exploring options. I haven’t done much weaving as I field questions, keep a loose eye on everyone and dress looms for the weekend. I think I…
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End, Day Two
Day two is winding down. There have been ah-ha moments, some frustrations, some break throughs. Learning is a process of laying down layers of knowledge to create a solid foundation which allows more learning. Weaving is not difficult. It IS complex. In order to learn a student would do well to remember the maxim, use…
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Folk School
It was a glorious sunny day to make the drive to the Folk school. We arrived in good time, got the stuff unloaded, settled into our rooms and generally got comfortable. Two of the students will be arriving late, but the rest of us had dinner together, then went to the studio to get…
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Fibre Week at Olds College (Alberta)
Still trying to get everything done that needs to be done before I leave on Thursday. One of the things I finally got round to was bringing the Schedule page on my website up to date. While doing this I checked the Olds College Website and discovered that it’s really truly official. I’m slated to…
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Slip Sliding
back to the Fanny and warping valet warp wound of two 2/8 cotton with one strand of variegated cotton flake ready to transfer the cross – the lease sticks aren’t going anywhere so long as tension is kept on the warp In spite of a whole lot of distractions I did manage to rough sley,…
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Critical Mass
In many ways I feel as though my calendar commitments reached critical mass with the closing of Art Market. It’s not that my calendar isn’t full to bursting but the last two shows of the season are small, closer to home, and should prove to be a lot easier than the last few shows have…
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Guest Post – Nancy C
Ergonomics of the Mind I’m Nancy Curtiss, and I needed some help. Well, as weavers, we know that we’re each a little warped, but when I attended the Eastern Great Lakes Fiber Conference in Chautauqua, New York over the weekend, I thought that I would mostly do just fine in my class called “The Efficient…
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So Here I Sit
At my gate a O’Hare airport, sleep deprived, facing a nearly five hour flight to Vancouver, a four hour layover, and a final hour or so flight home. Too tired to think, let alone work on the project which cannot be named. Too tired to read. Too over tired to risk sleeping and miss the…