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You don’t need to be a master!
Judging from some of the emails I’ve received lately, some people think I’m a master weaver/couturier. Nothing could be further from the truth. While I’ve learned a lot in three and a half years of weaving, enough to get past the rank beginner stage, my skills are journeyman at best – there are many more [...]
Honoring the Divine
I’ve spent most of the last two days working on cutting and binding the edge of the dress hem: trimming the hem to a uniform length, cutting and sewing together bias strips of china silk, machine stitching the bias strips to the raw edge of the hem, trimming the seam allowance back to 1/8”, folding [...]
Weaving as T’ai Chi
One of the nice things about weaving for long periods, especially if you do it consistently, is that it’s much easier to make breakthroughs. I’ve had a couple of major breakthroughs in my weaving technique over the last 2-3 days, and I thought I’d share some thoughts on that.
But first I want to talk about [...]
That elusive “zone”
I sat down yesterday and started weaving like a woman possessed! I don’t know what came over me, but at the end I had woven something like 1.5 yards. So my tally now stands at 5.75 yards for the current piece (plus another 2.5 yards for the previous piece). Total, 8.25 yards.
I also spent a [...]
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