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  Doug and I didn’t give each other ‘gifts’ this year.  Truth to tell we really haven’t bothered with ‘holiday’ gifts for years.  If we needed/wanted something, we’d announce to the other and they would say ‘happy birthday’ or whatever.  So we don’t bother with a tree or any decorations really.  We have our string…

  In the Northern Hemisphere, it is the season of darkness.  It is a time to bring light.  Light a candle.  String up the lights. Build a bonfire.  Hunker down until the returning of the sun. Whichever ‘holiday’ you celebrate, if you live in the northern hemisphere, it generally includes the bringing of the light,…

  a peek at the backside of the cloth currently on the loom – the selvedges are not ‘perfect’ but are pretty consistent – they also tend to curl or roll at the selvedge, which I don’t fuss over, just leave them to do what they will do under pressure from the highly twisted weft…

  I mentioned last time that I had a couple of threading errors that I fixed while I was still in the threading stage.  One meant I had to hang an ‘extra’ end, and in another I had a couple ‘extra’ threads that I removed from the warp.   The ‘extra’ end is the tag end…

  Life is full of rough patches.  We think – assume – that we have total control over our lives but the reality is that we do not.  What we have is the power to react to what happens, and then try to chart a path through those rough patches. To be honest, I have…

  Weaving is one of those crafts (like many others) where the prep work is all done in order to *get* you to the fun part – the shuttle throwing.  And all of it has to be done *before* you can have the fun.  It’s rough for some people to do the stuff that needs…

  This morning as I sat drinking my coffee and reading through social media, I was served up a meme with a quote by Brian Cox, the scientist (not the actor).  Over the years I’ve enjoyed his programs on science, so I was interested in this quote: “The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even…

  Probably the first ‘meme’ I ever made… The other day this blog had a quiet Milestone – viewership is now over 4 million page views. I kind of stopped counting when I realized that bots were ‘raiding’ sites like mine, selling the active URL addresses so they could start making comments on posts and…

  Probably the first ‘meme’ I ever made… The other day this blog had a quiet Milestone – viewership is now over 4 million page views. I kind of stopped counting when I realized that bots were ‘raiding’ sites like mine, selling the active URL addresses so they could start making comments on posts and…

  Probably the first ‘meme’ I ever made… The other day this blog had a quiet Milestone – viewership is now over 4 million page views. I kind of stopped counting when I realized that bots were ‘raiding’ sites like mine, selling the active URL addresses so they could start making comments on posts and…