I Love Hue Too! II
A couple months ago I wrote a blog post about working with various color apps to develop a finer-tuned sense of color nuances - https://doubleweaver.com/i-love-hue-too/. One of these apps, I Love Hue, has become a particular favorite of mine. As you work your way through solving the color grids you advance in levels of difficulty. At the time that I wrote the previous post I was working with fairly complex rectangular grids, and it’s fun…
Teaching an Old Teacher New Tricks
At this time last year my teaching was off to a great start. I had just finished a series of workshops in Hawaii and was about to head off to another in Florida. I had a very full year ahead of me with another twenty workshops yet to come. In early March I attended a board meeting in DC and afterwards went on a quick trip to Virginia to teach another workshop. The day I…
Weaving with Lunatics
I have a thing about complete sets of materials, especially when they involve color. I have sets of colored pencils and pastels that I’ve never even used because I want them to be perfect in their entirety. Back in the 80’s I worked at a weaving shop in Portland, Oregon. I would spend hours arranging new yarns that came in according to color on the shelves, and then I wouldn’t want anyone to buy them…
Double Rainbow Evolves, part 2
As I experimented with weaving in the Double Rainbow system in two blocks on 8 shafts and seeing how the combinatory possibilities for color and pattern were truly endless, I realized that I needed to find a system for encoding and notating information. Otherwise it would be like falling down a rabbit hole and never being able to find your way out again. This problem had me stymied for quite some time and I spent…