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  inspired by snow covered tree branches We are having ‘real’ winter today.  The temperature dropped to -23C last night and today we are having a brilliant sun-shiny day.  The light is so bright that sunglasses are necessary as the light bounces off of every snow covered surface. I am not so brilliant today.  Yesterday…

  inspired by snow covered tree branches We are having ‘real’ winter today.  The temperature dropped to -23C last night and today we are having a brilliant sun-shiny day.  The light is so bright that sunglasses are necessary as the light bounces off of every snow covered surface. I am not so brilliant today.  Yesterday…

  Today is the day many people make resolutions for going into the new year.  I’ve never been a big fan of ‘resolutions’.  It feels too much like ‘failure’ if I fall down on my ‘commitment’.  So I make plans, always willing to pivot if I need to meet a Life Challenge or if my…

  Today is the day many people make resolutions for going into the new year.  I’ve never been a big fan of ‘resolutions’.  It feels too much like ‘failure’ if I fall down on my ‘commitment’.  So I make plans, always willing to pivot if I need to meet a Life Challenge or if my…

  next warp This is one of those designs that make your eyes cross.  The thing is, sometimes I have to weave some of my designs, just to see if they actually weave up into…something.  Or if they wind up as nothing special. But that’s the thing about designing stuff.  One idea sparks another, then…

  One block tie up for the shifted twill blocks technique Yesterday I had someone contact me, wanting the draft for a particular design they had seen in Stories from the Matrix. I had assumed that anyone interested in this technique would have weaving software and be interested in designing their own motifs, but this…

  Who’s a good girl? I have only the vaguest of memories of this day.  I suspect I was 4 and I honestly don’t recall if mom took me to the local theatre where we were given a few moments of ‘Santa’s’ time and able to have our picture taken.  I suspect it would have…

  Who’s a good girl? I have only the vaguest of memories of this day.  I suspect I was 4 and I honestly don’t recall if mom took me to the local theatre where we were given a few moments of ‘Santa’s’ time and able to have our picture taken.  I suspect it would have…

  Begin as you mean to go on… Yesterday I finished sleying, tied on and decided I was too anxious to wait another day to see how it was going to look (loom state). Am I pleased?  Yes, even though the colours aren’t really ‘mine’, I’m happy enough with them.  Of course I won’t see…

  rose border on table runner A friend went to Romania, and she found this lovely table runner.  It is a ‘heritage’ piece, and I would not be surprised if the linen had been domestically grown and spun.  The pattern threads look like mercerized cotton, therefore most likely not hand spun but purchased.  The teal…