Category: teaching
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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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Holiday Season
After Black Friday… In NA the time for holiday purchases now ramps up. Since we bought ourselves a new HVAC system this year, that will be our ‘holiday’ gift giving to each other for, oh, years… As someone who largely made the majority of her income from producing things, I have mixed feelings about…
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A Gift in the (e)Mail
This morning I got comfortable in my recliner with morning coffee and ipad and opened my inbox to a ‘surprise’. People sometimes tell me how much I have helped them, and when they do, well, cockles definitely warmed. Since I woke up with (another) sinus headache and was feeling particularly groggy, I opened an email…
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A Gift in the (e)Mail
This morning I got comfortable in my recliner with morning coffee and ipad and opened my inbox to a ‘surprise’. People sometimes tell me how much I have helped them, and when they do, well, cockles definitely warmed. Since I woke up with (another) sinus headache and was feeling particularly groggy, I opened an email…
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A Gift in the (e)Mail
This morning I got comfortable in my recliner with morning coffee and ipad and opened my inbox to a ‘surprise’. People sometimes tell me how much I have helped them, and when they do, well, cockles definitely warmed. Since I woke up with (another) sinus headache and was feeling particularly groggy, I opened an email…
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A Gift in the (e)Mail
This morning I got comfortable in my recliner with morning coffee and ipad and opened my inbox to a ‘surprise’. People sometimes tell me how much I have helped them, and when they do, well, cockles definitely warmed. Since I woke up with (another) sinus headache and was feeling particularly groggy, I opened an email…
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Constantly Evolving
The bug that should not be able to fly… Most people who know my ‘story’ know that this cloth was pivotal in my becoming a weaver in the first place. Over the years, I have evolved. Changed. Sometimes back tracked, sometimes taken detours. But always coming back to weaving. And teaching. My mother was…
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Beginnings, Endings
Over the years I’ve learned that for every ending, there is a beginning. And so I am poised at the ‘end’ of my teaching in person part of my life, and looking forward to what comes next. What is new is that I won’t be teaching in person anymore. And that leaves me with…
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Self-Assessment
Mug with GCW diploma One of the great gifts I was given as a young weaver was the encouragement to self-assess. I had my mentor, yes, but I also attended a critique (not a criticism), had my own work critiqued as well as juried and of course, marked. This reinforcement of looking at my…
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Teachable Moments
This morning, scrolling through FB, I saw a meme that said – Be teachable. You are not always right. I’ve mentioned (often) one of my mentors who always greeted us with ‘what mistakes have you made lately? what have you learned?’ This is an attitude I have tried to embrace in my own practice,…