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Back in my weaving days, I always admired weavers who could pull together amazing combinations of colors from their “stash”, or collection of fibers left over from other projects or purchased without a specific project in mind. I had the opportunity to try again to develop that skill with this necklace. Although the holes in [...]
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It should have been no surprise to me that in the middle of preparing to go to the Braids 2012 Conference in Manchester, England next week, the finding that attached my favorite eyeglass tether to my reading glasses failed. That frustration was the last in a long line of small disasters that included two [...]
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In beach towns and theme parks all over Florida, vacationing tourists find kiosks with racks of cotton thread cones and a stool under an umbrella where both the young and the young-at-heart can get a hair wrap. A tanned attendant will take strands of hair and wrap the length snugly with your choice [...]
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I know that I’ve said it many times, but I always learn from my students. I learn new ways to see structure, new ways to communicate kumhimo methods, and I see new possibilities through the eyes of other enthusiasts. Last weekend’s three-day workshop for the Weavers of Orlando was no exception. It was a [...]
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