New Year – New Life, New Opportunities?
How is your New Year shaping up so far? I know – we’re only 3 weeks into 2023, but for our family, if the first 21 days is anything to go by, it’s going to be a wild ride, in a good way, I hope! 2022 finished off with some little hurdles but on January 3rd, a new life...
Ann Sutton
Some people might know that Ann Sutton was given an MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours list* this year (2022) for her services to the arts. In my view, this is not before time!!! Ann Sutton has, and continues to be, an inspirational light in the weaving world, not...
Come and join HGA’s Spinning & Weaving Week
It's a busy time right now with fun students and book writing but here's something for this coming week that you might enjoy! This week is the HGA (Handweavers' Guild of America) Spinning and Weaving Week online. There are a lot of things going on, and I happen to be...
A surprise from New Zealand…
Isn't it always lovely to receive something unexpected in the post? It's a funny feeling - you wonder 'what did I order that I can't remember?', then you feel it all over to see if it will bring anything to mind or give you a clue. Finally, you open it and WOW! What a...
The Loom Shed and Call for Entry for virtual weaving exhibition
It's been a fun week! Yesterday I had the very great pleasure of joining the Loom Shed's Liz and Louise and their lovely zoom audience and to share the Woven Optical Illusions project with them. I really enjoyed myself and judging by some of the lovely emails I have...
The Loom Room France is at The Loom Shed!!
The Loom Shed and The Loom Room France are joining forces! I’m so excited to be chatting online to Liz and Louise at The Loom Shed in two weeks’ time (Sat 3 Sept) about the upcoming book Woven Optical Illusions by Katharina Krönig and me. I’ll be making a presentation...
When crocodiles meet looms…. (it’s all in the teeth)
In the current edition of Complex Weavers Journal, I wrote an article about my Covid Chaos series (see last blog post). In it, I mentioned that my temples were not big enough to be of use in my project and my AVL (a very early one from the 1980s) does not have side...
Spontaneous, planned or evolving? What does creativity mean to you?
On my recent travels, one of my travelling companions asked about my job. People are always fascinated when you say you’re a weaver. Most don’t know what a weaver is any more and he was curious. When I said that as a teacher, writer and artist I strive to unlock...
Seminar Season
Summer is seminar season and this year was a return to CW Seminars, the first time in person for me for 8 years! It seems unbelievable to think the year of Nature in the Making in Tacoma (2014) was the last time I had been with the fabulous weaving family that is...