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It's Official
Exactly a week ago, I got a letter summoning me to jury duty in the morning of May 15. It would have been my third time; in 1998 I got summoned twice in quick succession, and I went on the appointed...
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Monochromatic Cashmere Warp Pieces Three and Four
In short, this piece was a (giant) flop, because of the erratic beating. What's worse, I was unaware of it while weaving, and only saw how bad it was when the remainder of the warp came off the loom....
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Moving On
On Monday, I thought I'd be productive and augment/widen this warp, wind it, and even thread it for another clasped weft. Except I'd forgotten I had the dark colors in the center of the warp, not on...
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The April that Was
I gave myself a week to take care of my Letter Journal bottleneck, to various results. This is an unfinished spread, (i.e. someone else has to work on it to "complete" and sign it off,) but my...
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Of Weeds and Hips
There has been no weaving or weaving-related activities taking place, due to my self-inflicted hip problem earlier, and the arrival of the brisk season plus a new toy called the Green Bin. This is...
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Why Don't I Draw? / On Color-Experiment-Art-Therapy
I've been gazing at the works of Spanish artist Jesus Cisneros several times a day, because I am yearning to draw little whimsical sketches, a little every day, and color them in, but I have that usual...
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Not Happening
On the whole, we've been having a settled, lovely autumn/winter conducive to cool-weather gardening, with occasional rain, (far fewer than forecast,) for weaving, interspersed with "I just can't be...
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Loom Update
No, still not about tied weaves, but about the loom. But it's not all bad. In all we went to the air compressor (and other industrial machines) shop four time over two and a half weeks. I spoke with...
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Another Loom Update
I posted almost exactly this on my FB page on Saturday: "With the warp on the big loom currently not under tension, we threw an old bed sheet over it and continued our investigation. Ben first checked...
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It's Just One Thing After Another
You might think I live carelessly, and I don't blame you if you do. I wonder about it myself. I damaged my eyeglasses; I went outside and got two night's worth of firewood as I usually do, came inside...
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Oh, What a Different Post This has Become
Hello! It's really been a while. I hope you are well. And weaving. My life has been... eventful and same-old at once, but included no weaving for four months. First thing first; I did something...
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What Do I Mean by Tied (Unit) Weave? - a Very Short Version
As I mentioned in the last post, my problem with writing this post has been to explain in words, using correct tied unit weaves jargon, something I've done instinctively since I first wove in this...
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Did I Live My Life the Right Way?
It's really summer here now; it's sunny and hot and some weeds are in flower and this year we seem to have thrice the garden bugs, (the icky kind,) than usual. Still, we are alive, not amidst a war,...
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Dear Ivy
I have enjoyed learning from your Dad what you have been up to. And while I don't want to change anything you do, I thought I'd tell you something about my weaving machines, which we call "looms". And...
View ArticleThings I Encountered for the First Time in my 65th Year Part I (But It's Not...
If brevity be the soul of wit, time and time again I prove myself witless. I worked on this post off and on for four months, finished and posted on Christmas day. That evening, then one of these issues...
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Things I Encountered for the First Time in my 65th Year Part II (The Less...
I haven't done two posts/day in a while, but I didn't want to finish with a downer so here come the good bits. * * * * * Since turning 65, I started receiving pension, and that's made a big difference...
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It's not Often I'm Lost for Words But
Hello, friends. I hope your year got off to a colorful start. I was going to post pretty pics on Jan 1, but as you can imagine, my year so far has been surreal, because nobody we know have been...
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Thoughts, Transformations, End Products
I have to jot down a few things my maker friends and I talked about just now. Like minutes ago. These may come to something, or not, but these makers have heaps more experience making, read in depth,...
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Still (Not) Thinking about Thinking
I haven't stopped thinking about, or more accurately having different feelings about, the thinking/design issue I wrote about in the last post. One discovery is, I don't spend enough time...
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Tuesday
Tuesday was Town Day. I had two medical appointments in the middle of the day but nothing else, so it started out at a leisurely pace.I took a picture of this fancy rubbish bin at the back of the PO...
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Tuesday Instinctive or Experiential/Learned Knowing Blues
One of the things Esther brought up last Tuesday was: there are things she knows, (in/about her making, but also in life,) which she doesn't have to think/test but can rely on. While I agreed on...
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I Daresay I am a Better Weaver Than a Weeder
In the last days of January, I made four cotton warps in quick succession, still struggling with blues. Then I did nothing for 11 days weaving-related. Even though I've been fairly productive and...
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So, That Took a While... Or, Yet Another Glutton for Punishment Project?
Goodness, this recent lack-of-idea phase was long and thorough. I wrote paragraphs after paragraphs, but they looked all the same: "Joy, blah, blah... Interesting, blah, blah... I don't want to... "...
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Agriculture Report
The temperature has cooled down a little in the last fortnight, although it's bound to go back up again as we only entered autumn six days ago. Our last 20% of Roma tomatoes have not grown in size, nor...
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Shrinking My Life (and No Weaving in This Post)
No weaving today, because I got distracted. I signed up to take a four-week introductory pottery (handbuild) class Esther was/is teaching. I've wanted to give pottery a go since 1974, (50 years!) and...
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