Category: The Intentional Weaver
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Another Show, Another Year
some of my stash that needs using up We are home from Calgary and the last ‘big’ show of this year. The guild will be having a sale in the guild room and I have a small number of ‘orphans’ and end-of-the-line textiles that I will put on deep discount, but that weekend is more…
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The Longest Journey…
…begins with a single step… one of the projects included in The Intentional Weaver Step by step. Writing the words. Polishing the words. Polishing some more. And yet more. Designing samples to illustrate the words. Weaving the samples. Photos, photos, photos, diagrams. More editing, more polishing. Yesterday? ISBNs. This stands for International Standard for Book…
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Onwards
Two yarns. Both cotton. Both weighing in at 3360 yards per pound. Are they the same? Are they? This is the sort of thing I am hoping to spotlight in The Intentional Weaver, for those people who want to really understand what they are doing, perhaps design their own textiles, and are looking for answers…
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Support
Friends are those who, when you only see the darkness, will light a candle for you. When beset by doubts, they will lift you up. When you need a hug, will hold you in their thoughts if they cannot physically reach you. To everyone who responded to my survey – thank you for responding. You…
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No Perspective
As I mentioned previously, after wringing my brains out for the better part of four + years, off and on, I became completely devoid of of any kind of perspective on what I had done. Today I took a wee look at the manuscript and – while there is still work to be done –…
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Thoughts on Publishing a Book
My little library with electric stapler used to staple the samples into Magic in the Water One of the things I did in high school was take typing and a class called Office Practices. The latter class looked at various things one might do if they were working in an office – double entry bookkeeping,…
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Table of Contents
Page two of the Table of Contents. If you heard a squee, that was me, downloading the professionally edited rough draft of The Book. I immediately hied myself to Staples, where I printed it out in all it’s full colour glory. And gulped at the price. It was a cool $125 to print it out,…
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Swimming Upstream
A reminder today that even though it feels as though I’m swimming upstream, the stream will end, the deadlines will come – and go – that I can only do the best I can do. And that I don’t need to do it all by myself. As women, conditioned to taking care of everyone else,…
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Disappointment
One of the most difficult things about writing a book – any book – is the fear. Will readers be disappointed? Will I deliver content that they want to read? Will they be satisfied with the price they have paid for the book? Will they tell their friends it’s good…or bad? I am not alone…
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Topsy
The photo is a scanning electron microscope image of a single silk filament. It is finer than a hair and deceptively strong. Our world, our society is made up of strands of connections in so many ways. None of us is singular. We all interact with others, sometimes forming close bonds with them, sometimes lives…