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  yellow line represents the divide between the US and Russia This morning I read a post that explained that the current president of the US said that he ‘didn’t want to be neighbours with Russia’. About that… The current president has also said – repeatedly – that he wants to destroy my country economically…

  burn, baby, burn…. One of the most difficult things to do is to explain how you are feeling to someone else when you have no point of commonality. When I tell someone my feet hurt – how can anyone else know what that means?  Hell, I can’t figure it out myself, how can anyone…

  Yesterday I got the last warp inspected and repaired and into the washing machine and dryer.  Today I will press them.   Weaving is a constant state of ending one project, beginning another.   I had thought to get the next warp beamed, but what with one thing and another (Life Happens) I had not generated…

  I designed a font that I could use in my weaving because sometimes I like to show off that I’m a ‘clever clogs’.  As another weaver said to me one day, sometimes you *want* people to know that you are clever. I suppose there is a certain level of pragmatism to my character.  You’d…

  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…