Category: The Intentional Weaver
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Culmination
I’m at the fun bit of weaving – sitting at the loom, contentedly weaving away, piling up the yards/meters. Thinking. Because when everything is going well and you only need surface attention for the task at hand, the mind can go wandering. This morning I was thinking about how cyclic in nature being a professional…
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Relative Time
Time is relative. I am still being affected by jet lag and woke up way too early this morning at 5 am. Eventually I got up and then had an ‘early’ breakfast, which meant an ‘early’ lunch. This afternoon I have a doctor’s appointment and the day is dragging like it was crawling through molasses. …
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Flawed
I now have in my hands (so to speak) the latest edits for The Intentional Weaver. Over the past month I have had a lot of time to think about this whole flawed business of creating content for others to buy. I have been writing about weaving almost since I started weaving and every single…
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Crunchy
The above is a close up of wool fibre. The scales are very apparent seen this close up. Thinking about teaching the upcoming class while I dress the loom once again. I like to leave a warp ready to go so that I can just jump on the loom as soon as I get home.…
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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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Stash-a-lanch
I am in the throes of finding my teaching aids for the two Olds classes I am teaching in June, which is a bit of a challenge because I also have all the samples for all the other workshops I’ve taught over the years. Things have gotten shifted multiple times over the past year due…
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Stocking Up
This is warp #8 in the series of towel warps I’ve been winding. I’m struggling to finish the warp on the AVL – but need to get it off soon so I can weave other things. I’m struggling to use up stash. But that means buying more yarn to use up the yarn that…
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Lessons Learned
Life is full of lessons. You don’t always get what you want (thank you Rolling Stones). The customer isn’t always right, even when the customer is…you. A child has someone (one hopes) to look after them; an adult has to take care of themselves (with a little help from their friends {thank you Joe Cocker…
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Right Answer
I make no secret that I use bamboo blinds as warp packing. Usually I buy cheap ones, but they tend to wear out quickly – apparently I use them – a lot. Yesterday I stopped at Jysk (a ‘cheap’ IKEA) to buy more and could not find any blinds. Thinking that they sometimes put inventory…
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Foggy
The fog of stress that has clouded my mind for too long appears to be lifting. For the first time, in longer than I can remember, I have done a solid three sessions in the studio today. My head feels clearer and I have been starting to think ahead. In the aftermath of my mother’s…