Category: workshops
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No More Messing About
As suspected, both the yarn orders had gotten caught up in the Christmas mail volumes and today I received not just the first notification of arrival but the last notice! Anyway, no matter, both orders are here and now I really feel the pressure to tackle the rest of the job list. The hemp yarn…
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Block Weaves
One of the things I’ve had on my to-be-done one-of-these-days list is to revamp the workshop handouts for Mug Rugs and More. I have been teaching this topic for a very long time and the handouts were very, um, crude, compared to what is available now in the way of weaving and word processing software.…
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Nashville
The Nashville workshop, Focus on Lace, is full. This afternoon I’ve been photocopying handouts and selecting the yarns for the drafts. Am running short on some so I’ve had to kind of jockey things around and make a few minor changes. They want some of the dry finishing techniques from the Mug Rugs workshop so…
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Static
silk warp for Magic in the Water My camera was intent on focusing on the wall behind, not the warp, which is the point of this photo. The temperature dropped overnight and with the cold weather comes low relative humidity. As I wound the warps for Magic in the Water at the folk school today, the…
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Static
silk warp for Magic in the Water My camera was intent on focusing on the wall behind, not the warp, which is the point of this photo. The temperature dropped overnight and with the cold weather comes low relative humidity. As I wound the warps for Magic in the Water at the folk school today, the…
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Solstice
As a kid I longed for Christmas. As an adult, I long for the solstice. The solstice is the pivot point for the sun and today is the shortest day of the year. It also happened to be overcast and the flurries that were predicted turned into a steady dump of fine snow that was…
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Deadlines – Just In Time
One of my ‘failings’ is that I tend to treat deadlines as a way to procrastinate. Deadline is two weeks away? I’ve got a week before I have to actually do anything about it. Which can then turn into 5 days. Then 3 days. Finally when there is no more room to procrastinate, I find…
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Breaking the Ice
Breaking the ice with the no-thinking-required white place mat warp last week I’ve been able to start to tackle my to-be-done list. Since I am deadline driven, especially when several deadlines are looming (pun alert!), once I got back at it I was able to see more clearly what needed to be done and begin…
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Learning Opportunities
potential place mat warps…. When I finally made it to the loom progress went clipping along. Of course it doesn’t hurt that the mats weave up at around 12 picks per inch – really helps grow that cloth! Once my feet re-learned the choreography (broken twill, not straight twill) I had time to think. Of…
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Reflections/Decisions
quick snap for blog photo sent for promotional purposes Quite often people comment about how much I blog and how much time it must take me. I have to confess – I am not trying to write ‘literature’ when I post – I’m just jotting a note to my friends and it rarely takes more…