Category: The Intentional Weaver. Teaching
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Stash Reduction
Since I now appear to be officially below the 20 yard mark of warp left to weave on the AVL, I have been doing the number crunching for the next warp in the pipeline. In the spirit of stash busting, I am putting a white-ish warp on (natural and bleached whites, well mixed) of2/16 cotton…
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Invested
I’m waiting for an important delivery today, so instead of being at the loom where I might not hear the doorbell, I’ve been sitting plying the next yarn. And thinking. Lots of time to think when plying. I started thinking about how we ‘invest’ in our lives. So many ways to invest our time, our…
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Endings
The cone is the last (finally!) of Lynn’s ginormous cones of cotton/linen blend. It’s about the same grist as 2/8 cotton, so has been weaving up nicely on the cotton warps I’ve been pulling. I really expected to use this cone up on the last warp, but here it sits, giving it’s all for another…
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Endings
The cone is the last (finally!) of Lynn’s ginormous cones of cotton/linen blend. It’s about the same grist as 2/8 cotton, so has been weaving up nicely on the cotton warps I’ve been pulling. I really expected to use this cone up on the last warp, but here it sits, giving it’s all for another…
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Stubborn/Persistent
A few years ago (quite a few, but let’s not count them up) I was asked to do a guild presentation about my life as a professional weaver. After the presentation one person approached me and said that she had re-invented herself three times, with three different professions, but had been intrigued with how I…
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An Embarrassment of Riches
When I decided to write/publish Magic in the Water (available for sale at Weavolution.com – join the Magic in the Water group and follow directions) it was because there was almost no information on wet finishing in one place geared towards the hand weaver. I saw a need and decided to fill it. So why…
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Your Mileage
I was going to use a quote from, I think, Rumi – something about we are all different because we walk different paths and stop to smell different flowers. But either I’m not remembering the person who said it, or I’m not remembering the quote well enough to find it. So, I’m going with Your…
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Spinning
The colours in these skeins are actually more intense than shown in the photo. Many people don’t know that I became a weaver because I started spinning. (Read the first few blog posts from Aug, 2008 for the story.) Over the past few years with one health issue after another, plus the universe dropping…
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Year in Review
As each calendar year ends, people are encouraged to make resolutions for the coming year. I don’t do that, because I have goals that I work on all the time. Some goals are long range – spanning years – some are short term – as in what do I want to get done today, this…
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Year in Review
As each calendar year ends, people are encouraged to make resolutions for the coming year. I don’t do that, because I have goals that I work on all the time. Some goals are long range – spanning years – some are short term – as in what do I want to get done today, this…