Launch Day!

 

The Kickstarter campaign for WEFT launched this morning.

They need to reach their goal by mid-July, so if you want to see a magazine geared towards the more intermediate level weaver, here's your chance.

I'm told PLY is an excellent magazine for spinners; I'm hoping this will be an excellent magazine for weavers.

Handwoven is good - it has great projects with lovely photos, and provides information on how to weave the projects they highlight.  I'm hoping WEFT will bend a little more towards teaching beyond the basics.  

Partly that is a bit selfish on my part, because while I subscribe to Handwoven, it isn't geared towards me.  In fact I wrote for Handwoven on many occasions in the past.  My textiles were even used on the cover of two issues.  :)

But I also miss getting together with other weavers, talking about textiles in depth, expanding my horizons.  I could join a study group, probably should, but right now I don't want to add the 'burden' of deadlines to my life beyond what I already have.  And I really don't want the responsibility of hosting a study group.

Since my body started seriously falling apart a few years ago, it's become impossible for me to teach a class in person.  Fibre Week at Olds College has been cancelled, so I don't go there every year, either.  And I miss the community of weavers.  So, I'm hoping that WEFT will be a good alternative, perhaps help keep me thinking in fresh ways about how to take threads and turn them into cloth.

Even if you aren't interested in WEFT, let weavers you know, know about it.  Let's get this project up and running!