Hair of the Dog
I wasn’t planning to write about dogs again, at least not so soon, but it was really fun writing about teaching a dog to weave last time. And I know not everyone out there is a dog person, but enough of you are that I got a lot of great responses. And when a member of my local weaving guild sent out a link to a wonderful story about the raising, spinning and weaving of…
Teaching a Dog to Weave
Back in 2009 I was working on finishing up writing the first edition of my book on Doubleweave. At that time the only internet access I had was by dial up, which meant that my files were much too large to send by email. So as I finished each chapter I saved the file onto a disc, put it in a padded envelope, and mailed it up to my editor in Colorado. I had a…
Welcome!
Welcome to my first blog post ever! This is not something that I had ever even thought of doing before, but life is very different now and it’s clear that I need to adapt to the times and have other ways of connecting with you. In early March I flew to Washington DC to attend an annual board meeting for Andean Textile Arts, and followed that with a three-day workshop in rural Virginia. When I…