Life’s lessons at the loom

Tangled threads: Thoughts on failure
I sit down at the loom and settle in to untangle threads. I’d designed new towels, but, after weaving a ...
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Start somewhere
My desk is covered with a few weaving books, samples I wove in a workshop on color, graph paper and ...
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The sound before the sound
"Did you hear that?" I ask my friend Jody as we wind a warp onto her loom together. Jody stands ...
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From irked to grateful
Sometimes weaving drives me crazy. I’m not talking about the many times threads have ended up in a tangled mess ...
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Letting go
I have a project I want to weave: napkins to go with my Crisp Fall Day table runners. By “go ...
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Surprised by orange
One Sunday after church, when I was a child, my family was invited to dinner at Rokeby, a guesthouse run ...
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Enjoying the journey
When I sit at the loom and throw the shuttle back and forth, I have plenty of time to think ...
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Making joy non-negotiable
I have a new towel design on the loom. I worked the design out on paper with the aid of ...
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Leaning into color
Weaving is pattern and color. Pattern is my comfort zone. I’m left-brained and enjoy logic, structure and order. Numbers, formulas and ...
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Trust
I am weaving a new towel design and exploring variations. In this design, vertical ivory stripes alternate with twill stripes ...
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Accepting rough edges
I have a new towel design on the loom and it isn’t weaving as smoothly as I would like. It’s ...
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Presence versus Patience
“You must have a lot of patience” is a comment I hear frequently at craft shows where I sell my towels ...
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Unweaving
I am almost finished weaving a towel when I realize something is off. I'm not where I'm supposed to be ...
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