Category: The Intentional Weaver
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Language Matters
One thing I learned early was that language matters. My mother spoke French as her first language, then was tossed into the deep end of the pool in Grade 1 when her parents sent her to an English only school. Her sister in law did not speak English so I experienced not being able…
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Quiet to Think
The siding crew arrived about 9 o’clock this morning and began the noisy job of removing the stucco from the house. Since the studio can’t be worked in and the noise was grating on my already raw nerves, I decamped once again to the guild room where I have been trying to create order…
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Adieu, Vancouver
Parting is such sweet sorrow… Circle Craft’s Christmas Craft Fair is pretty big, something close to 300 exhibitors. Over the space of five days I managed to walk the show several times, and each time saw – or missed – something or someone. During the slow times the crafts people can chat, but of…
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Hidden Costs
One of the threads (ha!) on the #fairfiberwage topic on the internet is that of the hidden costs that go on regardless of the actual teaching fee being requested by teachers. The beta edits are beginning to arrive. I have completed two, both of which were extensive (plus my own, done on a hard…
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Self-employment
One of the things about being self-employed is that…you, yourself, get to do the work. No minions. Just you. If you don’t do it, it doesn’t get done. One of the things that I, personally, have to deal with, constantly, is a tyrant of an Inner Critic. She constantly casts doubt in my garden of…
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One Small Cog
So this arrived while I was out of town: Tien had a vision, a big dream, worked hard to make it happen. Big dreams don’t happen without planning, dedication, effort, on the part of the dreamer. And sometimes, the path to completion can be smoothed, aided and abetted by others. I, too, have dreamed…
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Happy Un-birthday
thanks to Doug for taking the photo of the Holzworth ladies! When you are an ‘independent contractor’, you don’t always get to choose dates that work ‘best’ for you. The group hiring you will set the date/time/place and you either agree…or don’t. This year mom turns 90. It has been a couple of long years…
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Beginning…Again
Writing a technical manual is a constant case of beginning, again. With the aim of taking information that is detailed, precise (in some cases), far reaching (in other cases), linear (at times) and non-linear (at other times), editing, over and over and over again is not just necessary but imperative. The choice of…
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Messy
There are aspects of weaving that are very linear – e.g. dressing the loom. The process is complex and in order to achieve a good result, care must be taken to do all of the steps in their order. But what about the process before you get to that point? If you want to design…
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Risky Business
Colours not quite true to life – this warp is a kind of coral – not quite pink, not quite red, not quite… Woven with the same solid in the weft,. Again, not true to life – woven with a kind of tomato red as weft. There are a number of aspects about being a…