Global and Local
In my Pyschologies magazine this month, there is an article about global and local thinking along with a questionnaire so you can find out what sort of thinker you are. Global thinking is where you think about the bigger picture and don’t sweat the details. Local...
Prague Memories
What does the name Prague conjure up in your mind? I last visited Prague in 1996, with 60+ teenagers in tow, as part of a music centre tour of the Czech Republic when I was conductor of a wind band. I remember the main historic sites, the Charles Bridge, and Prague...
Montreal
I don't often write about what I'm up to, but the reason you haven't heard from me in the last 2 weeks is because I've been in Montreal. I ostensibly booked a week on the intermediate jacquard course with Louise Lemieux Berube at the Centre for Contemporary Textiles...
Awareness
I had a conversation over dinner last night with a weaving friend that reminded me of this memory. It was 15 minutes after midnight, and a still, moonlit night last winter. I was lying in bed, head tipped back to watch the moon through the window behind my bed, as it...
The Curious Mind
Are you full of questions? Do you always want to know what happens if you do this or that? What would happen if you took that path in life, or this one? I’m a curious person. In weaving, that’s a great thing if you want to stretch yourself. I’m a sample queen...
The Wonder of Weaving
Weaving instills this incredible sense of wonder in me. Part of it is the creation of something useful and/or beautiful out of simple thread. Part of it is the huge variety that weaving engenders. Yet another part is the connection between peoples from all ages,...
The Power of the Subconscious Mind
We all know that the subconscious is a powerful thing. Something I experienced today, and many times in the past, shows just how much it works in everyday things. I’m doing sample weaving at the moment, with lots of plain weaving and overshot picks. I have a...
Marks of Passage
This is the time of year for the local farmers to wait for a couple of days of fine weather to dry the grass crop and then cut and turn and collect for hay. We’ve just had a few days of glorious weather which has led to them working flat out to get the hay in before...
What a Difference a Day Makes
We’ve just fetched my son home from university, and have been trying to squeeze a quart into a pint pot – successfully, I might add – and it got me to thinking about life changes and how things can pootle along for a long time without anything happening, and then...