Over the last two weeks I have been preparing to teachsummer holiday workshops for children. Having done two now I feel I have a formula that is working, but I have found you can’t plan for all eventualities and each child you work with is very individual. It seems it doesn’t really matter about their age to whether they can understand how to card weave, Its more to do with intuition, as I had some six year olds pick up the activities quicker than a eleven year old.
D.I.Y weekend.
I am now starting a larger production piece. This week I took a delivery of a kg of unbleached linen yarn. I have started to wind a warp. Although I have found scaling up the project makes all the processes slightly harder. This weekend I had to fashion a cone/yarn holder so that the reels of linen would wind around easier whilst I wind my warp. A piece of wood from the neighbours skip (thank you!) and a broom stick did the trick.
