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…
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…
90 Shades of Grey
Most of the weaving that I’ve done over the past several years has focused on exploring color rotations in doubleweave in a system that I call Double Rainbow. I've worked with color wheel hues in saturated colors, tints, tones and shades. I’ve expanded the traditional color wheel to work with up to twenty colors in one piece and I’ve created designs with up to eight blocks of doubleweave. I’ve experimented with different weights of yarns…