Category: teaching
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Making Things
While I was writing this book of essays, I was also working on a new-to-me approach to designing. As part of that process, I worked in a series, with each new design building upon the previous designs and what I had learned in the process. After about 18 months of pushing, pulling and tweaking…
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The Secret to Success
Be a weaver, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. What they didn’t say was that a big part of succeeding at being a weaver in the 20th and 21st centuries was…self-promotion. As an introvert, I wasn’t very good at the ‘self-promotion’ part. I found it hard to try and convince people that they…
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Mid-February
draft for heart motif Well, here we are, nearly the middle of the shortest month of the year. We have sun today, which is lovely, a welcome change from the string of grey dreary days we have been having. But the weather is not…’normal’…far too warm, and already the slumbering wildfires that never got…
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Mid-February
draft for heart motif Well, here we are, nearly the middle of the shortest month of the year. We have sun today, which is lovely, a welcome change from the string of grey dreary days we have been having. But the weather is not…’normal’…far too warm, and already the slumbering wildfires that never got…
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Crystal Ball
my crystal ball is cloudy The news went out yesterday – Olds College is cancelling Fibre Week and phasing out the diploma programs – Master Weaver and Master Spinner. To my knowledge this was the only college level course in Canada that directly addressed learning these crafts to ‘master’ levels. (There used to be…
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Links! I got Links!
green weft on dark blue warp – colours not true So frustrating that I cannot seem to get a decent photo of the new towels. The warp yarns were three shades of dark blue and the weft a dark green of about the same value for this design. Yesterday I pressed the latest towels…
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Happy Place
With all the new year resolutions happening, I’ve been thinking a lot about what 2024 holds. If I have my way, it will hold this. More weaving. I’m 1/3rd the way through the new warp, and have been thinking of new designs. Not too much set in stone (so to speak) but I have…
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Presenting Information
One of the things I tell my students is to always read the beginning bits in any weaving book they are using. Weaving is a complex technology. Different authors will present their information in different ways, especially if they are dealing with weave structure theory. In NA, the ‘standard’ form is to have the…
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Presenting Information
One of the things I tell my students is to always read the beginning bits in any weaving book they are using. Weaving is a complex technology. Different authors will present their information in different ways, especially if they are dealing with weave structure theory. In NA, the ‘standard’ form is to have the…
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Presenting Information
One of the things I tell my students is to always read the beginning bits in any weaving book they are using. Weaving is a complex technology. Different authors will present their information in different ways, especially if they are dealing with weave structure theory. In NA, the ‘standard’ form is to have the…