Category: teaching
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Steeping
Yesterday I wrote another chunk of text for the current article I’m working on. I was already beyond the word limit, but I had some other niggling thoughts I felt I should include. And that’s what editors are for – weeding out the ‘extra’ words. 🙂 So, I thought about those ‘extra’ words while…
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Steeping
Yesterday I wrote another chunk of text for the current article I’m working on. I was already beyond the word limit, but I had some other niggling thoughts I felt I should include. And that’s what editors are for – weeding out the ‘extra’ words. 🙂 So, I thought about those ‘extra’ words while…
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Foundations of Knowledge
Winter has snuck back and is currently depositing more snow on the ground. It’s one of those ‘spring break up’ storms – windy, wet snow, nasty to be out in. A good day to stay in and try to carry on dealing with some of the rubble in my office. I have been feeling…
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Chance ‘Discoveries’
Yesterday I spent some time messing with the next draft since I cut the warp off the loom and it was time to prep the next. I’ve woven this motif multiple times over the years. But I finally(?) noticed that if you combine the straight draw threading with a straight draw treadling, you get…
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The Learning Curve
If you are in the US, the books are printed there so no tariffs will apply One of the challenges teachers face is to provide information in a format that is accessible to interested students. Over my lifetime, things have changed radically in terms of the technology that we use in our effort to…
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Doing the Same Thing…
Two yarns, spun to 3360 yards per pound. Are they the same? Will they behave exactly the same in the cloth? One of the definitions of ‘insanity’ is doing the same thing, over and over and over again, and expecting different results. Also, that people who do not know history are bound to repeat it…
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Stick Shuttles
Yes, I still have – and use – stick shuttles. Yes, they are slower than boat shuttles. Sometimes it is faster to your goal to work more slowly. And when the tool is the ‘right’ tool, then I use it. A lot of people don’t realize that if you wind your shuttle as above…
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Finding My Voice
Magic in the Water, 2002 For the longest time, I worried if I actually knew something about the craft of weaving. I hesitated to speak up, unsure if what I knew was only applicable to what I was doing, or if what I was observing and learning held some bigger ‘truth’. It was the same…
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Perspective
There is nothing like a little perspective to adjust your attitude… This morning I had a telephone appointment with the surgeon who operated on me in Vancouver. I have spent the better part of the past 8 weeks essentially kicking the floor boards and shaking my fist at the sky at the unfairness of…