Unusual View

 

As a weaver, my usual point of view is from the front of the loom.  OTOH, the back view is pretty impressive, too.  

Or, at least, *I* think so!

All those filled heddles marching across the width of the warp.  I enjoying seeing them dance up and down as I weave - something I can just see over the top of the beater while I'm weaving.

It is very satisfying, really, to have things progressing smoothly and the cloth begin to build up on the cloth beam.

Today I had my next spinal jab and everyone always tells me to 'take it easy' and let the shot do the work it needs to do.  So, I've gotten used to planning ahead, piling up 'light duty' types of jobs to do while I wait.  Never my best self, impatient as I am to keep going.  Especially when things are going smoothly, and sitting at the loom is truly a working meditation.  Something I find I need more and more as the political climate around the world seems to be crumbling everywhere.

Since I am powerless to change anything on a global scale, my approach is to go make something.  Create something.  Spread positive energy into the world, if I possibly can.

Yesterday I spent some time digging through my library, pulling books I thought might be useful for the two articles I'm working on.  I have the colour cards for Brassard, so I'll see what I can come up with for a yarn order to weave that gorgeous fine white linen singles on.  I've just finished proof reading the article I sent to one place last week.  It should be coming out fairly quickly as the editor decided to add my voice to her publication on 'short'* notice.  She apologized for only giving me a month to write it - pshaw, a month is plenty for me to write something I care passionately about.  Especially since I didn't have to actually weave anything to illustrate it - I could pull most photos from my photo archive.  I did take one close up photo, but that was about all that I needed to do for that one.

I'm not sure when the publication date is, but when it goes live, I'll let all y'all know.  

I think I am going to make myself a cup of tea and sit for a bit with the Brassard colour cards.  It takes about two weeks to get orders from Quebec.  But I also don't want to wait too long because they usually shut down for summer vacation at some point during the summer.  And I'm really looking forward to working some more with this fine linen.  

In the meantime, there is the final pressing to be done on the towels I hemmed, thumbing through those books looking for more information, and that book on Mariette Vermette-Rouseau.  Now I have my new glasses that teeny tiny font should be easier to read.  

*standard lead time to write for a magazine is 6-12 months...