I kept trying not to write this post. It started as blurb in the newsletter about acquiring the rights to Handwoven Home and releasing a new digital edition, but then I kept thinking about the wonders of publishing and ran out of room to wax poetic. I’m still not sure this subject is post worthy, …
There are a lot of coulds in my weaving world. As in, I could weave this or that on my rigid-heddle loom—my loom of choice, my muse, my creative constraint, my teaching tool, my thing. (I’m very annoyed that em-dashes are now a sign of AI written text because I use them a lot, perhaps …
Crafting content for weavers who, like me, weave on a rigid-heddle loom provides endless avenues for exploration. The weave-alongs are often an extension of my own weaving practice or perhaps my practice is a result of crafting content for a living. Who can say which drives which. Over the past year, I’ve done a lot …
After a two year hiatus, the public weave-alongs are back. On February 14, we kicked off a clasped warp and weft table set in twill or plain weave project bonanza in our new home YarnworkerU. The name is both a nod to educational spaces and a play on words regarding the personal nature of weaving. …
I haven’t felt very bloggish lately. Perhaps it is the nature of school’s out for summer feelings. Now that I’m heading back into the classroom, I’m feeling the pull, although I can’t for the life of me think of what to say. Although there are things happening here at Yarnworker central, none of it seems …
In November, my desktop started giving me trouble. I couldn’t tell if it wasn’t happy with the latest operating system upgrade, or if I was dealing with a corrupt file. My bluetooth was cycling on and off, which made me think it was a hardware issue, but I wanted to rule out software or file issues. …
I remember the first time I saw a fiber-producing animal. It was at the petting zoo in Greensboro, North Carolina, where my grandparents took me to feed the ducks. I don’t know exactly how old I was, somewhere between preschool and school. In one pen off to the side was a llama and I was …
As a weaving teacher, I’m constantly reminded what an inexact term “beating” is. In weaving, we throw the term “beat” around a lot when what we really need to do is finesse. There are notable exceptions and we have explored some of those this year—weft-faced colorwork anyone?—but most yarn doesn’t really like being pushed about. …
The Yarnworker School patrons and I are spending our summer school session of 2020 tackling the process of formulating a plan to weave a project or essentially learning how to design projects for our own use. This is a round of of ideas about looking at design from a bird’s eye view. What is Design? …
Rigid-heddle weavers regularly ask me this question or a variation on this theme, essentially wanting to know if they will reach a limit with their rigid-heddle loom. All looms have constraints. Syne Mitchell, a dedicated multi-shaft loom weaver and author of Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom, talks beautifully about the concept of constraints throughout her work. …
