For all of the courses I teach, I send like to send participants home with class notes that they can reference later. I cover a lot of material and it’s easy to miss a detail or two, and it frees up students from having to write anything down. In the past I’ve had [...]
Archive for November, 2009
From printing to pdfs
Posted in spinning, sustainability, teaching on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cashmere and climate change, again
Posted in sustainability on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks back, my post on cashmere and climate change was featured on the Maisonneuve blog. Thanks to the Maisy staff!
Spinning for embroidery
Posted in embroidery, spinning, sustainability on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shortly I’ll post about my a trip I took to the Laurentians back in August, which included a stop at Laurentian Alpacas, the source of the fibre for the project in this post. For now, though, a bit about my ambition to spin embroidery thread from local materials…
For the past several months I’ve been [...]
A trip to Pine Hill Farm
Posted in spinning, sustainability, teaching, travel, yarn stores on November 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago I made a visit to Pine Hill Farm in Hemmingford, Quebec, about one hour south of Montreal and close to the New York border. As part of an article I’m writing for Spin-Off, I decided to feature Pine Hill as a source of fleece and other spinning fibre in [...]
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