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  People of a certain age will be totally familiar with this meme (or versions of it).  The one I remember was a ginger and the ‘rope’ it was hanging from was a single strand of rope with a big knot tied at the end. I wasn’t actually doing ‘well’ when I fell last year…

  This was the scene out my window a while ago.  The autumn rains and wind have done a pretty good job of stripping the leaves from the trees, but we still have not had a ‘hard’ frost.  The grey dreary days have been wearing on me as I continue to try and sort out…

  These are the oopsie towels (one of them, at least). The face I see becomes the ‘back’ and is more white; the front shows more of the warp and looks more blue/grey.  A subtle difference my ipad doesn’t capture well. But the towels after wet finishing show a nice bit of texture.  I’m going…

  I live in a part of the world where seasons change.  When the mountain ash don their orange foliage, we know it’s autumn.  And then…winter. With climate change, though, the seasons are no longer predictable.  Or ‘normal’.  Now we have wildfire season, flood season, landslide season.  After the wildfires in the summer, the autumn…

  I have seen this post multiple times, but I thought this version was particularly eloquent. We watched a program on homo sapiens the other night and the archeologists were reporting on new findings that push the ‘rise’ of homo sapiens even further back than was thought. Which means that we have been here, on…

  It’s no secret I haven’t been feeling ‘well’ the past while and that’s always a ‘dangerous’ time when I’m planning a new warp. I’m ‘low’ on yarns (of a certain kind) and I wanted to use some of the dribs and drabs up.  So I pulled some tubes and tried to put together a…

  I got the file for the next issue of WEFT this morning and read through my article.  Since I wove the projects last year, before The Fall, I am very pleased to see this article appear in the magazine.  It was – technically – a fairly difficult project, and can I just brag on…

  Yesterday I started beaming the next warp in the never ending series of tea towels.  I was a bit hard pressed to get enough spools, but decided to make a serious attempt to use up more of the bits and bobs of 2/16 cotton (dyed) as I could.  There were enough of the pale…

  A few people have asked if they can ‘subscribe’ to my blog.  I think if you click on the ‘follow’ button that is considered ‘subscribing’.  You might have to use Chrome/Google but I’m not sure.  I am currently monitoring comments, first because I had a harasser, and now because it seems I’ve reached a…

  Since I’m still on ‘light duties’ there has been little weaving (as in, pretty much none), so I haven’t been getting my daily working meditation, which shuts my brain down and stops me from fretting about things I have little to no power to change or fix. I have been reading Mark Carney’s book…