Teaching weaving – must be the best job on the planet

People are happening in my studio. Starting again with my 8 year old neice, Darby, now showing an accomplished weaving way with the Saori loom she started on when she was 4 years old here.

Her dexterity had increased so much that she even tried the clasped weft technique and kept asking me to show her more and more ways of weaving, more and more colours and textures, more and more of everything. A weavers dream I think! At least I’m sure that at least one little person on the planet, outside of a factory, will know what weaving is and how creative and relaxing it is.

She also went ‘wild’ with the Mt Fuji  (I call it Sydney Harbour bridge) technique, interspersing it with the clasped weft. She made a beautiful scarf in a couple of days.

Next my studio is undergoing a facelift to allow more Saori looms to fit it without tripping over all my other loom accessories etc. It is a big job as I have a big collection of  my weave history to move but once I started I felt better and it will be a more functional space for me.

Darby with the scarf she wove