Category: workshops
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One Winner, One….Not
herringbone diamonds needs tweaking I’m really quite pleased with the baby blanket/big project fabric. When I want to do a large diamond, I use a herringbone threading/treadling sequence rather than an extended point twill. What happens when you reverse the twill direction on an ‘ordinary’ point twill is that the outside warp ends fall out…
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Little by Little
I have spent rather more time the last two days fighting with issues of electronic technology than I’d like and find the battles to be rather wearing. Well, that’s my excuse for frittering away a couple of hours this afternoon playing games on Facebook rather than doing something productive. However I did finally flog myself…
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Bittersweet
This week is bittersweet. On the one hand I’m about half way through chemotherapy and I have survived the last 3 months continuing to weave, at least a little bit, almost every day. (I did ‘lose’ Saturday as I spent most of the day in bed after cycle #4.) And I still have (most of)…
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Uniligual
One of the regrets of my life is that I never did learn either French or German. My mother is Quebecoise, my father first generation Canadian of German extraction. But for a number of reasons, they did not teach me their ‘mother’ tongues. I have tried to learn another language as an adult, but it…
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New Toys….er Tools!
a variety of colours wheels, some of them more ‘accurate’ than the others….I actually threw out a couple where the colours were really nasty! Although The Project is on hold I have not forgotten about it. In fact I’m also developing the topic into a workshop, so I figured I may as well get a…
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Seein’ Red
Someone asked on Weavolution (I think it was) if people had a favourite weave structure or pattern that they keep coming back to. The above is one of mine. It’s done on a 16 shaft point twill progression and is easy-peasy to weave with a dobby. It doesn’t look it’s best as it is on…
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Updating Schedule
While I was away the brochure for NEWS arrived. I’m looking for another group in the New England area (or at least further east than the mid-West) to share travel costs with NEWS. The dates for the NEWS conference are July 14-17. Any groups interested in having a workshop with me either side of those…
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Setting Goals
last four painted scarf warps….. I always work best when I have deadline pressure bearing down on me. Doesn’t matter if the deadline comes from outside or from within – no deadline, no pressure to get anything accomplished. :} So I learned a long time ago that I am a person who needs to set…
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“When you don’t know….
what you don’t know, you don’t know that you don’t know it…..” (Judith MacKenzie) So today I dragged my sneezing, sniffling, aching body all over town looking for books on colour theory, all to little avail. I finally found this one at the local library, but it is so very basic it’s of little use…
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Beginning Again
This afternoon I went to Jennifer’s where I met with her, Karin and her g/son Anthony to make lace. I had cut the teeny, tiny green thread off, wound bobbins and even started the red bookmark this morning and immediately ran afoul of the pattern. Since I had successfully done a couple of repeats of…