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Moved to Dreamwidth
Fleeing slightly later than everyone else, because I have been busy and lazy and other reasons described here.
User name is the same over there as it is here.
I have moved all my content over there, so I may well delete this account eventually, but I will leave it up for a little while at least for the sake of redirection. -
The Abbey Museum plus holiday pics
I thought some of you might be interested in hearing about this quirky little place we found semi by accident while we were on holiday. My parents have moved from rural Queensland and now live on the coast near Bribie Island. A few days after Christmas we thought we would take a short drive up the road and visit the Caboolture Warplane Museum. ( Read more... ) -
That was never a year just now...
So the rest of this year seems to have whizzed past. I swear it was July five minutes ago. Work has kept me fairly busy, which has probably contributed. I had a couple of deadlines in October, and spent the last month of the year acting at a higher level. I managed to squeeze in a few fun things too. I made it to the Feast of Blessed Herman, and ( Read more... ) -
No, really, still here...
So June proceeded pretty much as I foretold in my last post ie incredibly busy. Then I took a week off in the middle of July, which coincided with the last week of school holidays, and a visit by my parents. That whizzed past much too quickly, and then I got a cold that Erin caught on her school trip/exchange to Malaysia (which is how she spent ( Read more... ) -
Hello, I'm still here
So, I rather carelessly put my hand up to act at a higher level for the month leading up to 30th Anniversary (for which we now have 134 people booked), which was a bit silly as this is the time of year when everyone is rushing around trying to get their work program for the next financial year sorted out. And of course the guy I am replacing has ( Read more... ) -
Mini-meme
Acquired from Irreparable. She assigned me the letter 'W ( Read more... ) -
Not about weaving...
It's been a while since I wrote about anything except weaving, so I thought I would give a brief rundown of the parts of my life that aren't warped ( Read more... ) -
I can haz twill?
There's a wide range of twill weaves though a diagonal rib is the most common (think denim). Generally you need a four (or more) shaft loom to weave them. A rigid heddle loom is the equivalent of a two shaft loom. The more shafts, the more complex the patterns you can weave. However, I found a 'recipe' for weaving something twill like on a rigid ( Read more... ) -
First piece on the new loom
I finished my first test piece on the new loom about a week ago. I thought I would post some pictures of the process. Of course I completely forgot to take any when I was winding the warp, but I was doing that the same boring way I used for the last scarf I made on the smaller loom (winding the yarn out on the clothes airer basically). The new loom ( Read more... ) -
My Christmas present
I've waited a while to post about this, but there was some assembly required and I only managed to get that completely finished yesterday. So here 'tis:
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