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  In 2019 my local guild was given an old L model Leclerc Loom.  It was unlike any Leclerc loom I’d seen before, and had many similarities to a Macomber. It had been in storage for a number of years before it came to us, and needed some TLC.  When Covid hit, there wasn’t time…

  In 2019 my local guild was given an old L model Leclerc Loom.  It was unlike any Leclerc loom I’d seen before, and had many similarities to a Macomber. It had been in storage for a number of years before it came to us, and needed some TLC.  When Covid hit, there wasn’t time…

  In 2019 my local guild was given an old L model Leclerc Loom.  It was unlike any Leclerc loom I’d seen before, and had many similarities to a Macomber. It had been in storage for a number of years before it came to us, and needed some TLC.  When Covid hit, there wasn’t time…

  I cut the warp off the loom Saturday, then started beaming the next warp.  Given my aging body, I didn’t push through and beam the entire warp in one day, but only did half, then finished beaming Sunday.   Sunday was a bit of a ‘full’ day.  Given the new therapy appears to be helping…

  Having reached the age where my body has begun falling apart, I have now acquired, um, 5 different therapists?  In addition to my dentist, eye doctors, family doctor, oncologist, etm. One of the hard lessons I have had to learn is there is no more ‘bulldozing’ through things.  So today, when I had been…

  broken bobbin This morning I was scrolling through Facebook while drinking my second cup of coffee and the site began offering me videos of wood turners making amazing wooden items. As I watched the lathe spinning, the tools gradually bringing unique forms out of blocks of wood, I thought about ‘waste’. Coils of wood…

  It’s hard to get a good photo of this design, in part because the motifs are large, but I got the first 14 towels into the washer/dryer and have begun hemming. I’m not entirely pleased with it.  I could have shaved some more ‘roughness’ from the transitions from one area to the next, but…

  If you remember the ‘flying fickle finger of fate’ you must be as old as I am… I had another epidural injection last week and once again my hope ramped up – this time, THIS TIME, it would ‘work’ and I would have less pain. Once again, hope has been dashed on the cliffs…

  It has taken me months to finally do the final act of a ‘real’ author – get two copies of their book ready to pop into the mail to the National Archive. It is one of the requirements of getting an ISBN number – that copies be lodged with the National Archive. It has…

 The following books are from a non-smoking household, and generally in good condition.  Shipping rates apply to addresses in Canada or the US. Chart for Lace Identification and the Meshes of Handmade Lace by Lolita Eveleth asking $10 plus $6 for postage Lace for Dolls and Dolls’ House by Ann Collier asking $20 plus $20…