My tardiness in getting to blog posts is getting predicable.Weaving has become difficult with continuing problems on my digital loom. The replacement card seems to be a bit different to the previous one and the mechanics need some modifications. However, it’s all helping me feel more confident in what is behind the workings of the loom and I think it will be better than ever once sorted. You can see here in the photo that I’m notably absent from the vernier caliper measuring and discussion, busy trying to capture the moment of men discussing important things…for me. Still I shouldn’t have multiple people up on top of my loom. I need to be weaving with it!

Stationary looms should evoke an eager time of discovering and learning new things, so my Saori loom is taking the front seat at the moment. And with the new year’s promise of new beginnings, I’m cramming up on print textile designs for spoonflower and how to create good designs with weave textiles always on my radar. Spoonflower offers a great service for fabric designers and anyone who just wants to have a go. This is a monumental development for artists, designers, stitchers, sewers and just about anyone interested in textiles and fabric. What a world is opening up with such developments.

The hexagon is my latest shape of interest and I’m using it as a base for some print textile designs. So fascinating does the hexagon seem to me at the moment that I even started crocheting them. Isn’t it funny that you can walk past hexagons all your life then suddenly you ‘get it’ and they seem so exciting. Thankfully this happens with lots of things that we ignore, leaving lots more excitement ahead for us.