Category: The Intentional Weaver
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Six Weeks
The deadlines have been rolling by and it suddenly occurred to me today that it is (gasp!) six weeks to anticipated lift-off aka publication day. (looks around desperately for a paper bag to breathe into…) With that realization now a conscious thought instead of an ‘in denial’ thought, marketing the book has been much on…
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In Spite of Everything
I use this blog as a diary. A place to work through my thoughts – which can oftentimes be quite scattered and need to be corralled. A way to sort through the emotions of a situation to discover what I actually think about something. This summer has been…challenging. In addition to the general stress of…
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Details
The colour of these shawls is more green than grey but apparently my ipad didn’t ‘read’ it that way. When I fringe twist, I don’t hemstitch on the loom. I just weave in ‘waste’ yarn to keep things in place until I can get the twisting done. After wet finishing, I then trim the frayed…
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Language Matters
I have been weaving long enough that I was part of the growth of weaving in the mid-70s, part of the shrinking of practitioners, part of the recent growth in interest again. As such I have a library of books that span all of that time. One of the things the level one Olds students…
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Shape of Things To Come
When I helped organize conferences previously (1980, 1985, 1995) there were few resources other than pencil, grid paper and a very large eraser. By 1995, I had a personal computer, but there were very few tools for conference planning – in fact we had a registration program custom written for us to use. But spread…
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Shape of Things To Come
When I helped organize conferences previously (1980, 1985, 1995) there were few resources other than pencil, grid paper and a very large eraser. By 1995, I had a personal computer, but there were very few tools for conference planning – in fact we had a registration program custom written for us to use. But spread…
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Shape of Things To Come
When I helped organize conferences previously (1980, 1985, 1995) there were few resources other than pencil, grid paper and a very large eraser. By 1995, I had a personal computer, but there were very few tools for conference planning – in fact we had a registration program custom written for us to use. But spread…
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Dates on a Calendar
I keep two planning calendars – one for this year, one for next – to record events and remind myself of deadlines. Even though I am cutting back on teaching by no longer accepting guild workshops, it seems I still manage to fill my calendar with dates. These are just the potential teaching events coming…
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Wheat from Chaff
I read a blog by Jim Wright for a number of reasons. He’s a writer and a political commentator, beholden to neither end of the political spectrum. This morning his blog talked about information overload and how difficult it is to separate the wheat from the chaff. In context of my adding to the overburden of…
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Birthing a Book – the back story…
Magic in the Water Kerstin Fro:berg’s Weave a V, which I published in English I am – and have known – a number of people who have written and published books, either via more traditional publishers or by self-publishing. Personally I have done the self-publishing route for a number of reasons. For Magic, it was…