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  Tomorrow is week 7 since the brain bleed.  I took the holiday weekend off and made myself take a couple more days before I tried to do anything until after I had a good chat with the physiotherapist. However, I explained how the loom worked, what I had been doing just prior to doing…

  Tomorrow is week 7 since the brain bleed.  I took the holiday weekend off and made myself take a couple more days before I tried to do anything until after I had a good chat with the physiotherapist. However, I explained how the loom worked, what I had been doing just prior to doing…

  While waiting for the physiotherapist to come on Tuesday, I am being very cautious.  It is Thanksgiving weekend this weekend and I am focusing on trying to work on an ‘attitude of gratitude’.  Given it could have all gone very badly less than 7 weeks ago. Since I am not in a position to…

  Autumn scarves – painted warps The past 6+ weeks have been…an experience. There were days when I could NOT find the words I needed to say what I wanted to say.  It was a lack of expression that I found discombobulating.  I’ve never expected being told I would lose my speech, and I was…

  I woke up Monday morning with a *very* swollen left eye.  My thought was that there was something wrong with my left eye – either the shingles or the surgery on that side of that hemisphere of my brain. I panicked. Neither was a ‘good’ situation, but I could not get through to my…

  Late last week we were contacted about getting the assessment for what I’m facing ahead of me.  Since I had been slowly getting the rest of the warp I’d left on the loom ready, I managed to get it sleyed and tied on over the weekend.  This morning I prepped the warping draft for…

  Working on a little bit of weaving – something I started thinking the one before my fall. (I feel like calling it My Fall – because it is…definitive and possibly life changing…) I’m of some two minds (heh) about whether or not I will do is for this project.  I’ve gotten it to the…

  Three weeks ago, I wound up doing a face plant.  I laid down and fell asleep, and thankfully Doug was home because he realized that something was going terribly wrong, and phoned for an ambulance.  It turns out I wound up having a brain bleed, and that night I was medevacked (?) to Vancouver…

  plain weave, not compressed plain weave, compressed I have been thinking for a while how I can illustrate what compression does to cloth and came up with the idea that I could ‘weave’ some plasticine ‘rods’ into plain weave and then compress them to show what happens when threads undergo compression during wet finishing.…