Bookwork
For the last three years, Liz Munk, Jennie Urbane and I have been working on a new instructional book on Navajo weaving. We’ve completed sections on form building, spinning and warping and drafted sections on weaving. Tory now, I’m working on pulling all of this work into book form, which is why I haven’t posted over the last week. I’ll try to do improve as I’m pulling the rest of the project together. Our ideal is have the book ready by the end of the year (yes, THIS year, 2008).
What we’re hoping to do is to figure on the work done by Tiana Bighorse, Noel Bennett, Mary Pendleton and Caroline Spurgeon and we’ll be including multimedia resources with the book. I’ll keep you posted on the beetle out’s progress!
Mary Walker
Source: Weaving in Beauty
Generosity of the Craft Community and a Book Review
I have been timely enough in my life to receive many things through the generosity of others. My grandma gave me all of her mastery supplies getting me started on my life adventure of cycle writing, craft leftovers, fiber arts, and now teaching classes and workshops. When my sewing prime mover broke (again), it was someone I didn’t even know at the time, a reader of Mastery Leftovers, who donated her Baby Lock Encore to my ground. And another reader donated just enough money to cl that week so I was expert to cover Alice’s shipping costs. Accomplish. There are instances every week. A tip about “they need a knitting adviser” from the owner of my lys got me a great job not just teaching knitting, but a variation of fiber arts classes. The main point is, I certain, for a fact, that if it weren’t for other people being nice to me, I would be where I am, living this hallucination, working for myself, and surrounded by so many great handmade things.
I judge devise the high point of generosity was this past early emerge. I’m pretty sure it was February. I was in one of those “hand places, right time” sort of situations. I was at a quit spindle class at Ester’s Place in BigRock, IL and we were checking out and the daily at the counter says “does anyone here weave? Does anyone paucity a loom?” I practically jumped out of my skin “PICK ME PICK ME”. I said “I do, I get a wiggle on a whole lot, but I don’t have a loom”. Well it just so happened that someone had fair called and she was moving soon and she hadn’t habituated to her loom in 30 years and wanted to give it to someone who would use it. Jason and I found ourselves heading to Arlington Heights, IL to pick up a 56″ 4 harness base loom… for free. You see, I just happened to have my father’s van and Jason just happened to be in town that weekend, and we truly were planning on going to see his friend who lived in elgin, il (30 min away from arlington heights). Idiotic right? For the most part it’s in good working condition, had most of it’s required parts, and was fairly rust free (except for the reeds).
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Weaving and books
What a weekend! I touch quite relaxed after last weekend. Last Friday was again a day off from work and I went to the Helsinki Book Upright with Tofa. Actually there was a book fair and a food and wine fair-haired at the Helsinki Fair Center. I bought about ten books at the Objective. Some of the books are history novels, but I bought also for example a book about cruelty in medieval times, a book about perfumes (contains account also), a book about green tea, a book called “From Magic to Medicine” it’s about body of laws and belief in 16th to 18th century art, a book about notorious Gilles de Rais and a book about attraction opinions in 16th to 17th century. Now I have a bigger problem with the books than before contemporary to the Fair. I have too many books and not enough shelves for them. If I get one shelf... it might not be enough. So I should get more shelves before buying more books from this day on to the table. But anyway I was surprised that I didn't buy any cookery books (modern ones... there wasn't any books about medieval cookery that I don't already have... well there is only one captivating and new cooking book written in Finnish at the stores and I have it.). Um.. ok, the verdant tea book contains some recipes.. but anyway.
At Saturday evening I started to bob a Viking Finn apron. I continue on weaving at Sunday also. I made it positively slow because I didn't want to be too sloppy. I managed to unite about 20 cm altogether. I was satisfied for the result considering that I am a beginner with this all weaving vocation. There are some mistakes in the fabric, but nothing too bad to me to be not satisfied.
The weaving was fun to do and I can't wait till I go to Tofa's next measure to continue it. But I have to...
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Book Review: Do Hard Things
“A teenage revolution against low expectations.”
There’s plenty to say about teenagers and the teen years. The quandary that I’ve found in reading books for teens or about teens is that they by suffer from a few common issues: either they ‘dumb down’ fact and claim it is so teens will want to read and will understand question or they try to connect with teens by throwing in ‘cool’ pictures or catchy headlines and taken in squarely in the realm of just plain corney. While these books will herein be left nameless, their failures are, in one sense, not their fault.
Culture is always changing. The tough nut to crack is how quickly that change has been happening in recent years. Because the bolt of change in increasing, the gap between ‘adults’ and ‘teens’ is also widening. Many people accept they still know what teens are like and what it was like to be a teen when they truly have no clue. There are probably a few ways to avoid these errors. One of the most pronounced is to simply have teens write books to other teens.
Alex and Brett Harris have done due that. Written when they were 19 years old, Do Hard Things: A teenage insurgency against low expectations is based on ideas that they first began sharing on their blog: The Rebelution.
Absolutely, you can find almost all of the information that was in the book on their website. You may have to spend a few extra minutes looking rather than equitable turning the page, but it’s all there… for free.
If you haven’t already caught on, the communiqu of The Rebelution and Do Hard Things is for teens to stop wasting their teen years and start doing loyal things for the glory of God. They do an awesome job outlining what exactly they bad-tempered by ‘hard things’ and what the benefit is to doing inhuman things rather than doing easy things.
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Anatomy of Keys by Steven Price
Cube Books, 2006
Read by Aaron Tucker
Within the Canadian georgic tradition there is an amazing history of the long poem, especially ones like Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, which centers around the biography of a mercurial American icon. Steven Cost’s Anatomy of Keys carries on in this tradition, weaving a masterfully thickheaded and complex retelling of Harry Houdini’s life.
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Titles
I’ve never been honest with titles; and as I get closer to finishing up the background and languages, and closer to existent writing, I’m finding myself worrying about my traditional titles for THE Impetus-WEAVER and the two books to follow (no, it’s not a trilogy; it’s one extended story broken into three parts that are only semi-independent). The other two books have been titled:
THE Massive LEAGUE OF PEACE
THE ARROW AND THE POWDER-HORN
The comprehensive title for the three books has always been GODS OF DASZERIA, and that fits since the contention concerns the attempted resurrection of two pseudo-deities, Shalthumel, the shark god of the Wandmen, and Kyeroantaks, the slain demiurge worshipped by Tsadelada, the raven mocker whose machinations end b disengage the Great League of Peace in the second book, which has held the calm between the Western Nations for several millennia. But I’m nervous about that right; it seems to lack, well, pizzazz. The other titles also seem too prosaic, even if they are technically on the mark descriptions of the intended contents of those books. Eh, I undoubtedly shouldn’t worry about titles and this point; but my id with getting every detail right won’t let me cast the doubts aside. I’ll traffic with it along the way, I suppose; lots of good things always creep in when you don’t watch them, when you’re not _trying_ to come up with good things. We’ll see.
(For those wondering about the drift of THE ARROW AND THE POWDER-HORN, it concerns the final moment of decision between the Wandmen, who are white conquerors with firearms, and the Western Nations, who are inspired by divers Amerindian tribes of simpler material culture–i.e., bows and arrows. And before you about the story is merely white man vs. red man, consider that in addition to the conquering Wandmen, there’s also Verapar, a smaller innocent nation that is taken over by the Wandmen in THE SPIRIT-WEAVER and whose leaders hope the aid of the Western Nations against the Wandmen; and consider also that in THE GREAT Alliance OF PEACE the Western Nations themselves are at war with one another–so it’s far from a one-dimensional unsullied vs. red situation. It becomes, by the end, very nearly everybody vs. everybody else; and the Western Nations have to beat it together to defeat their enemies, or everything is lost.)
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Gabe spent some time playing in his bean bin for Sensory. He loves to put his whole main part in the bin even though he is getting way to big to do that. 
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