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  wool loop scarves, heavily fulled, brushed to raise a nap Yesterday I got the contract for another zoom presentation – this one in August of 2024.  For Magic in the Water.  🙂 The contact form on my website appears to be working again, thanks to the help of my web guru.   And this week…

  I’ve been on the internet for quite a long time (1994) and am no stranger to people being…less than civil.  Over the years, I’ve carefully curated my ‘space’ on the internet, blocking some, ignoring others.   This blog (started in 2008) has had its fair share of ‘abuse’ which I have tended to ignore (ignoring…

  I’ve been weaving for a very long time.  I’ve been studying the ergonomics of the various steps in weaving since day 1.  Well, ok, maybe day 2. While I cannot claim that everything I do is unique to me – of course it isn’t! – I took what was taught and then adjusted it…

  I’ve been weaving for a very long time.  I’ve been studying the ergonomics of the various steps in weaving since day 1.  Well, ok, maybe day 2. While I cannot claim that everything I do is unique to me – of course it isn’t! – I took what was taught and then adjusted it…

  I’ve always lived my life with ‘deadlines’.  It’s how I got stuff done.  Even when the ‘deadline’ was arbitrary – as in, me, saying I want this thing done by that date.  Completely arbitrary. But if I didn’t make a commitment by setting a deadline?  That thing was very likely to not get done…

  Time is relative, it is said.   Relative to what?   I routinely experience the stretchiness of time as I go to the loom, and then re-enter ‘life’.  Because I use weaving as a working meditation, almost before I know it, 45 minutes has gone by, the cassette tape is finished and it is time to…

  Jack Lenor Larsen’s book and Magee Cloth Company blanket Over the centuries, cloth as been used as a trade good or even as currency – vadmal, Hudson’s Bay blankets, etc. As a new weaver, I heard the opinion that ‘all industrial fabrics are poor quality; all handwoven fabrics are good quality’. Which confused the…

  I no longer take a booth at the craft fairs – instead I sell my textiles through the guild booth.  This year it turned out very well that we were not booked for Studio Fair because the same week we would have had to set up is the week our new heat pump/furnace will…

  ‘rest’ I used to play a musical instrument and sing in a choir so I used to be quite familiar with musical symbols.  I still recognize this one. One of the things that used to be said about music is that the spaces between the notes were just as important as the notes themselves.…

  Soon enough it will look like this. We are milking every drop of enjoyment out of the far too mild October days, which the weather app says will be changing very soon.  Some folk at higher elevation had frost overnight. After what seems like weeks of waiting, for one thing or another, suddenly things…