It's amazing how an enforced break over Christmas and New Year makes you actually crave to weave again.  I was starting to dream about weaving!

But now that the Christmas House Guest has gone home, I'm back into my happy place that is my studio, and I've got heaps to do...

I have been weaving about 40 years but all that experience doesn't seem to stop me from making rookie mistakes from time to time.  There are various reasons why we fall in to an error. Sometimes it's because we just get careless with the planning.  Or we try to take a...

I've just completed the first fabric of a series that I am planning for a large work.  It is a fine cotton and it is woven in plain weave, which is something I don't do very often.  What surprised me was how fast it was to weave up.  Because I have an 8 shaft jack loom...

I'm finally getting some quality time in my studio.  That is, I'm actually making good use of my studio time and my concentration is finally returning.

I have finished the double weave placemats, and although they were not quite the best proportions in the end, they act...

This exhibition is a Professional weavers Network Group exhibition and The Wallace Gallery in Morrinsville is the third and final gallery.  The first was Pataka in Porirua in June, then it went to the Gallery in Oxford, just outside Christchurch, and finally to Morrins...

I am finally back at the loom but the pace of weaving is glacial! My biggest problem is one I always have when I've had a break.  I simply loose the ability to concentrate long enough to sit at the loom and weave for extended periods.  As well, there has been heaps to...

We had an amazing month travelling around the Canadian Rockies, sailing through the inside passage to Alaska, and then coming home via a few days in Hawaii.  But now it is back to reality.  I have even managed a couple of days teaching since our return.  The first day...

It's not really an auspicious date to write my first blog in such a long time.  But, I'm back.  I have been so busy with an exhibition project, that I couldn't talk about, and with being the Convenor of the Creative Fibre National Exhibition that the blog just got put...

I have woven 2 pieces of fabric for Harriet over the last few months, and she has kindly sent me the photos of the made up articles.

The first is the dressing gown made from the possum merino yarn.

 The next photos show the cottolin fabric with the Brooks Bouquet patter...

I can't believe how long it is since I last wrote, but I have been very busy weaving.  So I'll catch you up on all the projects that I have completed.

I have finished both the capes and I was pleased with how they looked.

 I just hope the daughters-in-law will find ti...