First, but not last, post
Welcome to my new blog. I had an OLD BLOG but it's so old I forgot the username and password for updating! Oops.
So, here we are. New day, new page and this time I KNOW the login info to keep it up to date.
A brief history of the weaving:
I graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 2002 with a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Fabric Design. This was a join degree between UNB and the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. That year, I jumped in and quit my job at Kents Building Supplies to start, what would become, an ongoing job of weaving.
While living in NB, I was a juried artist with the NB Craft Council (now it's Craft NB) and participated in their annual summer and winter craft sales/shows, different exhibitions and other opportunities that were available to me. I was a part of that world for 12 years, until my second son was born. At that point, I wasn't sure how to balance kids and weaving - and the substitute teaching I was doing as well. Long story short, I put the loom away - but not permanently.
In 2013, our family moved from NB to BC and set up home in Burnaby. My loom stayed in NB as I wasn't sure if there would be room (or time) for me to use it. Then in 2014, a new-to-me loom arrived via my mom in Calgary. A Leclerc Mila sits in my basement waiting pateintly for the space to set it up. Not quite yet, though. We still have two boys under 9 in the house and they need the space right now.
Last summer, 2017, I found an ad on Craigslist for a small table loom by Woolhouse (a BC made loom and tool company). It fit my budget and fit the small corner I had to put it in. Well, then I needed something to weave. The summer before, we'd been home to NB to visit and I found 3 warps in a box. After purchasing my new small loom, I called my dad to have them shipped to me. And that's where this story picks up.
Today, summer 2018, I have been weaving up a storm! New stuff, warps completed, new warps and lots of finishing have added to my inventory. Here's the thing - I trained as a production weaver, not a one-off weaver. I apparently only know how to put on a warp of 5-7 yards length and weave it off.
On this blog you will find:
Today, to leave you, I put on some pics of my warp that came off in June before we left for our trip to NB in July.
Cheers!
So, here we are. New day, new page and this time I KNOW the login info to keep it up to date.
A brief history of the weaving:
I graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 2002 with a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Fabric Design. This was a join degree between UNB and the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. That year, I jumped in and quit my job at Kents Building Supplies to start, what would become, an ongoing job of weaving.
While living in NB, I was a juried artist with the NB Craft Council (now it's Craft NB) and participated in their annual summer and winter craft sales/shows, different exhibitions and other opportunities that were available to me. I was a part of that world for 12 years, until my second son was born. At that point, I wasn't sure how to balance kids and weaving - and the substitute teaching I was doing as well. Long story short, I put the loom away - but not permanently.
In 2013, our family moved from NB to BC and set up home in Burnaby. My loom stayed in NB as I wasn't sure if there would be room (or time) for me to use it. Then in 2014, a new-to-me loom arrived via my mom in Calgary. A Leclerc Mila sits in my basement waiting pateintly for the space to set it up. Not quite yet, though. We still have two boys under 9 in the house and they need the space right now.
Last summer, 2017, I found an ad on Craigslist for a small table loom by Woolhouse (a BC made loom and tool company). It fit my budget and fit the small corner I had to put it in. Well, then I needed something to weave. The summer before, we'd been home to NB to visit and I found 3 warps in a box. After purchasing my new small loom, I called my dad to have them shipped to me. And that's where this story picks up.
Today, summer 2018, I have been weaving up a storm! New stuff, warps completed, new warps and lots of finishing have added to my inventory. Here's the thing - I trained as a production weaver, not a one-off weaver. I apparently only know how to put on a warp of 5-7 yards length and weave it off.
On this blog you will find:
- Projects as they come off the loom
- Finished projects ready for sale
- Where and when my work is for sale
- New warps going on
- What's new with me (both employment wise and life)
- and some other stuff
Today, to leave you, I put on some pics of my warp that came off in June before we left for our trip to NB in July.
Cheers!
table runner, browns (wool and cotton), hemmed edge
table runner, sunset colors (wool and cotton), fringed edge
scarf, sunset colors (cotton and slub), hemstitched edge
trivets, sunset colors (cotton, chenille, wool)
scarf, sunset colors (cotton and eyelash acrylic), fringed
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