Zone Out
One of the books I am reading at the moment is called 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit. It’s full of different exercises you can try to see deeper than the surface of things. The second exercise in the book – Empty a Word of Its...
Inspiration and Character
When you hit the zone and work is easy, isn’t it wonderful? But what do you do when the inspiration, and the energy, runs out? Well, that happened to me today – not for the first time, I might add. Sometimes I just finish the sample or scarf that I’m weaving, and...
Weaving Teaching is Fun
Now I'm back from the US, it's back into teaching with a surge! I love teaching. I know I'm in a very privileged position because I'm self-employed and people from all backgrounds and geographical reach come to my home studio to learn. And not just from the far...
Support Systems
The first thing I need to do on this posting is to apologise to Jo Earl for giving her a new first name and mis-spelling her surname!! My humble apologies, Jo. I’m still on US time at the moment, despite having arrived back in the UK on Saturday. My flight was...
Creative Intelligence
<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> This week with Alice Schlein and her husband Bruce has been great fun. Alice has organised several things for us to do, including inviting some weavers from South Carolina for a...
Expanding Your Mind
<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> I'm in the US to attend a conference on innovative textiles and digital technology in jacquard weaving. It was run by the Centre for Craft, Creativity & Design at Hendersonville,...
Journeys
It’s just into 2009, and I’m in the US on my first trip of the year, to a conference on jacquard weaving in North Carolina. I'm also staying with weaver, Alice Schlein, at her home in South Carolina. More about Alice and other weavers next time.... I love to travel....
New Year, Fresh Start
It’s that time – a new year, a fresh start. I love the beginning of the year and what better way of starting out 2009 than with a new project? Hence the blog. I’ve been thinking about it for some time, and have read other people’s blogs, and I felt that I could...
Welcome to MUSINGS
Welcome to my blog. This may be a little different to the usual type of blog you may have read on weaving. Rather than daily bulletins about the practical aspects of what I’m weaving, I would like to share with you some musings. I am a weaver, and totally passionate...