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  One of the big differences I see between Canadians and USians, is that Canadians aren’t generally big flag wavers.   As such, we wound up mounting a smallish Canadian flag over our front door during one Flag Day, when they were being given away to anyone who wanted one.  We mounted it that year, and…

  Megado computer assisted dobby loom The last few days have been ‘quiet’ days.  First I had to beam the warp, something I can do in a day, if I pace myself, and then thread it.  Also something I have to pace myself to accomplish. Over the weekend, I listened to music, as I always…

  For anyone angry at the price increase of the above book, all I can say is that ‘politics’ affects the individual person as well as major corporations.  Individuals, however, have fewer resources to deal with things like, oh, say, another country who is, right at this time, deciding to ‘crush’ my country and our…

  For anyone angry at the price increase of the above book, all I can say is that ‘politics’ affects the individual person as well as major corporations.  Individuals, however, have fewer resources to deal with things like, oh, say, another country who is, right at this time, deciding to ‘crush’ my country and our…

  There is nothing quite so…sad…as an empty loom.  Which is why I try to have my next warp planned and ready to go just as soon as the warp on the loom gets cut off. Today I will be beaming the next warp (old photo).  This will be the second warp for the current…

  The other day I had a new weaver contact me about teaching weaving.  I thought about how I knew about 3 pages more in the book than the folk I was trying to teach when I started, and gave permission to them to use my class outline. I mean, I choose not to teach…

  I try very hard to modulate my ‘voice’ when I’m talking about things that might be….controversial…like politics. But there comes a time when individuals need to stand up and speak out.   This year Canada faces a federal election.  On the one side is the ‘left’ wing, currently holding parliament, and on the other side…a…

  A friend sent me a card recently and thanked me for reminding them to ‘keep going’.  Since then the current US president has threatened my country with all kinds of economic hardship while suggesting that  our entire country (with a land mass larger than the US) be ‘annexed’ and become the 51st state. This…

  It was difficult to get a photo of the current web on the loom, in part because the warp is ‘natural’ cotton and the weft is ‘white’ linen.  The only way I could get a decent photo was to hold the ‘camera’ (iPad) at a very low angle and get the shadows of the…

 I’m not going to comment much on current events, other than to say, keep creating, keep pushing creative energy out into the universe.  I won’t tell you what to do about what is going on, each of us has to make that decision for ourselves – what we can risk, what we are ok with…