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theowlweaver
Big news! I *finally* upgraded my domain name! I’m now hosted as: theowlweaver.com My subscribers will keep getting updates sent to your email and of course those of you that follow links from my other social media will have the new domain name in the links I post. But the big difference is that I’m…
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Magic Bracelet of +1 Calm
Today I’m going to show you a finished product that didn’t turn out at all the way I’d hoped. I’m showcasing it even though it’s not up to my usual standards because I really want to share with you all that I’m learning something new and it’s far from perfect and I’m still proud that…
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Getting my flow back
I think you all know by now that it’s been a bit of a rough year for me. I haven’t done much crafting at all. I hit a wall on a few of my ongoing projects and just couldn’t get into the right mindset to start something new. I really needed a relatively quick and…
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Merry Christmas & Happy (Christian) New Years!
Did you know that this New Years holiday is originally a commemoration of Jesus’ bris? That’s why it’s 8 days after Christmas. There is no secular reasoning to celebrate a New Years on this date; it’s a Christian feast day deeply rooted in Christian theology. But mainstream US culture is so enmeshed in Cristian hegemony…
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Owls & anti-capitalism
Today we’re getting just a little less personal, but a lot more political. I’m going to start with some questions: Do you like my art? Do you think it has value? What kind of value? Aesthetic value, sentimental value, spiritual value? What about monetary value? I’ve often been asked why I don’t try to monetize…
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Neurospicy Knitting
It’s been a while y’all. I’ve been having a rough time this past year, and I’m about to get real with you. Don’t worry, I’ll still include pretty pictures and highlight some knitwear that I’m really proud of! But my art is inextricable from my politics, and politics is personal, and I need to get…
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Woven Connections
This week I’m *finally* going to share with you the finished product from the project I featured in my very first post on this blog. It seems like just yesterday that I joined the Lucy Quarrier Weavers and started learning how to warp my loom for the first time! Now, almost two years later, I’ve…
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Sailboat memories
It’s been nearly a year since I last updated this blog, and what a difficult year it’s been! Me and my family somewhat suddenly moved away from my beloved West Virginia, leaving behind my weaving studio and the Lucy Quarrier Weavers. So I haven’t been able to weave (though stay tuned for exciting weaving updates…
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Warping the Loom (part 2 of 2)
There’s a saying in weaving that by the time you actually start weaving you’re half finished with the project. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but honestly not by much. Threading the heddles and reed is especially time consuming, and each step of today’s tutorial took me a whole afternoon of work! And that’s it!…
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Warping the Loom (part 1 of 2)
Before I started weaving I really had no idea what goes into the process of using a loom. Wikipedia defines weaving as “a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth”. I understood the basic mechanics of the weaving process itself as taking that second distinct…
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