I Love Hue Too!
I think I’ve always been fairly sensitive to nuances of color, but lately I’ve been particularly tuned in to subtle variations of tonalities in my world. I’ve been teaching my Double Rainbow workshop on zoom nearly every week this year, so color is something that I’m thinking about and exploring all the time. I know that there are many websites out there these days that can help you work out color schemes on your computer,…
Let there be light!
Threading heddles seems to be an aspect of setting up a loom that many weavers find particularly tedious. I’ve heard a lot of weavers say that they wish they could have someone else thread their warps for them. Personally, I find this part of the weaving process to be rather meditative, as well as a good mental exercise. But it does require being in the right state of mind, and there are several things that…
Doubleweave Hem
If you are thinking about weaving a project in doubleweave and don’t want to have any kind of fringe on the ends of your piece, there is a great way to have hemmed edges that look perfect from both sides of the cloth that is unique to doubleweave. It’s always best to think about how you are going to finish the ends of your cloth before you start to weave, and this is no exception.…
Anatomy of a Puzzle
The little local library in my community has been closed to the public for about a year now. But in addition to a shelf outside where people can share books in an open exchange, there is a table where people can leave jigsaw puzzles that they are finished with and take ones that they would like to do. I recently brought a stack of finished puzzles that I didn’t need to keep and looked over…
James Koehler
In the summer of 1999 I was making plans to move from my home in Oregon to Santa Fe, New Mexico, a place that I had felt drawn to for many years. I was looking through one of the weaving magazines one day and came across an article about tapestry weaver James Koehler. Though my chosen direction in weaving was doubleweave, rather than tapestry, I felt drawn to his weavings and the concepts he explored…
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…
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…
Puzzle, Puzzled, Meta-puzzled
I have an addiction that I need to confess to, though I suspect it is one that many of you might share. I’m not talking about buying yarn - that is a given. I’m talking about one that I’ve had most of my life and that has been growing in popularity over the past year - namely doing jigsaw puzzles. Opening up a jigsaw puzzle box is a bit like opening a box of really…
Many Moons
Can you believe that it has been twenty years since we were finishing up the first year of this millennium? At that time I was marking the end of my first year of living in my house in Santa Fe and a whole new life here. And I was also finishing up a special weaving that was about to lead into yet another one that led me down a path that I couldn’t have predicted…