Category: The Intentional Weaver
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Winter Arrives
It’s almost noon and it’s warmed up. To -18C in our carport. So far this winter, it has been overwhelmingly grey, dreary, too warm, too little snow. We finally got a bit of snow and this week? Winter has arrived. It is supposed to continue like this for the rest of the week. Polar…
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Planning on/with Hope
My beginning of the year ritual has included the making up of my planning calendar for the year following. I have one calendar that is the current year, and one for the next. In past years I needed that next calendar because I was booking events that far in advance – craft fairs, fibre…
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The Intentional Weaver
This morning I received an email from Archives and Library Canada requesting that I provide them with two copies of The Intentional Weaver. Both formats. Thing is, I no longer have hard copies of the book, they are all sold. So I have two options. I order two copies and send them to the…
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Does it Help?
It was a bit of a sobering realization this morning that I have been writing this blog for 12.5 years. When I started there were a fairly large number of bloggers who, for one reason or another, have drifted away from blogging. There are a few of us left but not the large number…
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The Power of Intention
The Intentional Weaver In 2004, Wayne Dyer published a book called The Power of Intention. At the time I was going through some tough times – I’d just spent years working towards the master certificate granted by the Guild of Canadian Weavers, then turning my final level monograph (as it was called then) into…
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Log Jam
Log Driver’s Waltz When working on a Big Project it can sometimes feel as though you are dealing with a log jam. There doesn’t seem to be any way to make progress, everything is a jumble. There doesn’t seem to be a way through – over or under, left or right. But you keep working…
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An Open Mind
Recently I saw a tweet from someone in a different discipline say “It depends!” So, not just textiles, then. One of the reasons I finally buckled down and finished* (for certain values of) writing this book was the people who simply did not know what they did not know. Therefore they didn’t know the…
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Weaving Police
Craft fair booth People want definitive answers to technical questions. It was one of the things I had to accept while learning how to weave – it all depends. In many cases my weaving instructor was almost as inexperienced as her students, but her approach to teaching was to tell us to go look it…
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Seeking Substitutions
Photo of four different yarns, all approximately the same thickness and yards per pound. Sort of. Further to the earlier blog post, I wondered if I could show how difficult it can be to make substitutions or not. I found four different yarns that were approximately the ‘same’ when it came to thickness, two of…
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Stubborn
Stubborn, my mother called me. As if that was a bad thing. Which I suppose from her perspective it was. Personally? I prefer persistent… But it can also be negative. Especially when I stubbornly procrastinate about doing something that needs to be done, putting it off longer and longer until I really don’t want to…