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  After weeks (months?) of ‘too warm, too dry’ weather, we are being advised to buckle up because winter is coming. Starting next week the temps will drop to -20 to -30 C.  Today we have -10 and weak sun shining on the thin layer of snow that drifted down over the past few days. …

  painted warp scarf One thing about writing out one’s memories is that you start remembering a lot of stuff you had ‘forgotten’. Thinking about my career a lot these days.  Remembering the people who helped me along the way.  The lessons that were dropped at my feet.  The way some lives intersect, sometimes randomly. …

  We are now beyond the winter solstice (in the northern hemisphere) and already we see the return of the sun beginning. Today we actually see the sun, finally achieving a clear blue sky – mostly.  We are also well into the throes of climate change where it is becoming more and more difficult to…

  colours are not ‘true’ – the blue weft is darker value than it shows in the photo After what seems like weeks of grey dreary days my eye was growing weary of the very dark blues I had been weaving.  Last week I finished the last of the dark blue warps and immediately put…

  colours are not ‘true’ – the blue weft is darker value than it shows in the photo After what seems like weeks of grey dreary days my eye was growing weary of the very dark blues I had been weaving.  Last week I finished the last of the dark blue warps and immediately put…

  colours are not ‘true’ – the blue weft is darker value than it shows in the photo After what seems like weeks of grey dreary days my eye was growing weary of the very dark blues I had been weaving.  Last week I finished the last of the dark blue warps and immediately put…

  Over Christmas and Boxing Day I did what I love – dressed the loom with the next warp. Things did not go…smoothly…however.  There were some minor issues, but nothing that will negatively impact the cloth in any significant way. However, it put me in mind of all the new weavers who lament all the…

  And now the sunlight hours increase (in the northern hemisphere). As we march forward into a new year, it is time to think.  We have a few days with few obligations, time off work (if you work), time with family and friends (if you are able to do that), but generally we have a…

 Just logged into blogspot and discovered that page views for this blog rolled over 2.6 million just since I got up this morning. Now I don’t for one second believe that all of those page views are by people who actually *read* the blog.  Too many folk out there ‘phishing’ for me to believe that…

  Yesterday I spent some time at the desktop and messed around with another draft after I printed out the threading for the next warp.  Given I’m on the downhill end of the current warp, it’s time to prepare for the next.   While I had Fiberworks open, it seemed like a good time work on…