Category: Zoom
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Pick by Pick
Well, Blogger seems to be having a problem today and won’t let me load a photo, so it’s all text today, I guess. So here is a four shaft colour and weave pinwheel. Yesterday I managed my goal of two towels. A friend also acted as tech guinea pig so I could work through figuring…
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Staying ‘Motivated’
shelves of hand woven textiles My ‘inventory’ has grown over the past year plus, in no small part due to the pandemic and the closure of shops and other sales events. My woven textile stock is now about four times this, and grows daily if I can manage my two towels per day goal.…
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It Takes a Village
white roses Like so many teachers, I have had to jump into the world of Zoom and adapt my approach to teaching. I was pretty good at setting up Power Point, but from there a whole new world was entered. Power Point presentations are fine, as far as they go, but they can’t do…
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Perfect
This morning things aligned so that I got that ‘perfect’ splash of light tossed across my floor. The front of the house faces more-or-less east and as the sun makes it’s annual journey from spring to autumn, how the light comes through the fanlight will move from the floor up the wall and back…
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Carrying On
After my blog post yesterday, I asked on Facebook if people might be interested in short videos. I was thinking of taking just one of the points out of my long form presentations and doing maybe 5 minutes (or less) and posting to You Tube. I have – amazingly enough – over 1000 subscribers…
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Zoom Zoom!
The information for the Ontario Handweavers conference is now available. With Covid continuing to be a problem, a number of in person events have pivoted to on line and a growing number of instructors are becoming quite comfortable with that method of teaching. It took me a long time to figure out how I…
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Zoom Zoom!
The information for the Ontario Handweavers conference is now available. With Covid continuing to be a problem, a number of in person events have pivoted to on line and a growing number of instructors are becoming quite comfortable with that method of teaching. It took me a long time to figure out how I…
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Shetland
This morning’s Sunday Seminar was with Deborah Robson talking about Shetland fleeces and textiles. It was a fascinating overview of the characteristics of Shetland fleeces – which are varied – and a peek at some of the textiles that Shetland is so famous for. Shetland is definitely one of those places in the world…
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Zooming Along
Yesterday I managed two towels, did a bit of marking, then started getting set up for the Zoom this morning. I am limited in where I can set up and have settled on this little ‘corner’ in front of the Megado. It’s not ideal. There is a window behind my head that wipes out…
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Starting Again
Yesterday I got the Megado threaded and sleyed after pressing the place mats I’d wet finished the day before. I’ve been chatting with some folk about working in series, something many creative people do. Working in a series is an opportunity to explore various aspects of a design. In my case, I come up with…