by StaceyW | Sep 1, 2010 | Teaching, Weaving
Overshot is wonderful for creating texture. The secret is to have all the floats on one side only. Where the floats are not floating, they need to be woven into the fabric. Bonnie Inouye first taught me this during the online workshop Wendy Morris and I did with...
by StaceyW | Aug 29, 2010 | Life
Ok, I admit it…. I’m showing off!! But blame it on the music, as they say (who are ‘they’ and why do we take notice of them anyway…?) Seriously though (awww!), you really can blame it on the music! As a music student one of the pieces...
by StaceyW | Aug 25, 2010 | Teaching, Weaving
This versatile float-based weave has lots of different uses. More often used for tea-towels for its ultra-absorbency, and blankets for its warmth-trapping cells, it can also be used effectively for scarves and for texture. Moreover it’s a fun structure! Using...
by StaceyW | Aug 23, 2010 | Life
Firstly, may I apologise for putting this in the wrong place last week. I created a new page instead of a new post, so you can find it if you search for shibori, but otherwise it wasn’t in the normal blog page! You can imagine my perplexity when I wanted to...
by StaceyW | Aug 22, 2010 | Life, Philosophy, Psychology
I was watching an ants’ nest that had been disturbed in my garden during our most recent renovation activity. The ants were scurrying around seemingly at random, running here and there without apparent purpose, until I realised that there was indeed a very...
