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  This used to be the public pathway in my subdivision.  One of the people living next to the pathway had planted rose bushes and they bloomed pretty much all summer.  It was always a delight to go on my daily walk and appreciate the pink and white roses, nodding their heads in the breeze.…

  Weaving is labour intensive. Parts of the process can be frustrating to learn. Some people give up because they hate warping. And I get it. But here’s the thing.  Creating textiles by weaving *is time consuming*.  It takes as much time as it takes (given the weaver’s skill level). I chose to become a…

  Morning comes I wonder What next bad thing will happen Will things get worse? Can they get worse? Yes  Yes, they can I squeeze my eyes shut to  Blank out the sights Listen  Can I hear the fabric of our Reality ripping apart? Yes? Maybe? No? If no, I open my eyes Try to…

  If it was ‘easy’, everyone would be doing it… Yesterday I got the appointment for the next injection into my lumbar back.  The best they could fit me in was in about 2 weeks. I’m an ‘old hand’ at managing my symptoms and energy, but I am, quite frankly, running on empty after months…

  I made it to the halfway point of the 2nd scarf today.  The photo doesn’t really do the colour justice.  The grey is shiny, more like metal.  Silver.  Or steel. The opposite side of the cloth is a ‘negative’ of this side – where the cloth is white, it’s grey and vice versa.   Part…

  old photo of some of my silk stash Sometimes I get a ‘good idea’, mull it over, don’t see any down sides and then proceed with it. And it doesn’t turn out the way I would like. When I have minimal numbers of spoons for each day, I have little in the way of…

  6 shaft 4 block Bronson Lace One of my favourite weave structures to design with is Bronson Lace. Yesterday I worked on the article for WEFT (no this isn’t a draft from the article) and was reminded how neat, how tidy the weave structure is.  And how much freedom I have because I know…

  Even as (some) things get ‘better’, (some) things get ‘worse’. So hey, I’m still here.  I’m not doing much right now, though.  My body seems to hate me, although in reality it is just complaining.  Mostly about how many times I ‘pushed through’ whatever it was I was dealing with at the time. ‘Rode…

  Even as (some) things get ‘better’, (some) things get ‘worse’. So hey, I’m still here.  I’m not doing much right now, though.  My body seems to hate me, although in reality it is just complaining.  Mostly about how many times I ‘pushed through’ whatever it was I was dealing with at the time. ‘Rode…

  Even as (some) things get ‘better’, (some) things get ‘worse’. So hey, I’m still here.  I’m not doing much right now, though.  My body seems to hate me, although in reality it is just complaining.  Mostly about how many times I ‘pushed through’ whatever it was I was dealing with at the time. ‘Rode…