But there never seems to be enough time To do the things you want to do Once you find them. – Jim Croce I spent today in meetings and doing paperwork for the Craft Council. Since becoming Vice Chair (which entails attending both Executive and Board meetings) I appear to be spending an increasingly large…
Category: craft
Testing, testing…
The project in which I am currently engaged is that of dyeing and spinning fleece, roving and yarns and developing a coherent yarn and fibre product line. By “coherent” I mean products that are related to each other, seem like a unified group of products due to either materials, colour or even just labelling and…
Robot knits a scarf…..
I suspect that most knitters have a warm-up project. When you get up in the morning and your hands have that slightly thick and sleepy feel and are disinclined to leap into action, you need a forgiving item on which to knit to nimble up. It has to be something worth doing, of course, but…
Dyeing progress
The current step in my increasingly involved little excursions into the mad, mad world of fibre dyeing involves dyeing various sorts of commercially prepared top. I’m not too concerned with colours just now, but am focussing on such details as: how the various fibres handle when dry how they handle when wet how long it…
Give me money, please? Or, Grant Writing 101 (part 1)
This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for some time. I sit on a Craft Council committee that is occupied with, among its other responsibilities, reviewing grant proposals and awarding funding. We see dozens upon dozens of proposals on a regular basis from craftspeople of all sorts, from the well-established to the fledgling…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 