Thanks for your intro, Weavers.
Today I thought to ask you what else, besides, weaving you do, mainly in the fibre/textile, but in the general creative endevours. I think I am an anomaly who just weave. I used to embroider and crochet but don't. I learned to spin and own a wheel but don't, and I've been declaring I need to learn to dye, and bought dyes, but haven't. I felted just once, but I'm sorry, felting has never done much for/to me. I tried to learn to knit once, and swore never again.
I used to play the piano and sax but don't. I have two ukuleles that so far just sat pretty in the stash room closet. I used to want to be a writer of plays and short fiction, but have put that on the back burner. I grew up with dogs, but haven't had one in a long time. Oh, I think there is a squash racket somewhere in the house, too.
About the only thing I do is take figure/life drawing lessons, which I started a year ago. My friend, an ex-weaving teacher, teaches it, and when she told me she taught "figure drawing" I didn't even know what it was. But she'd been giving me hints and pointers for a decade so last year I thought it's high time I paid her for her kindness, so I joined.
I can't even draw a map to help you out of a brown bag, so it was very hard and totally embarassing, and I'm still not a good drawer, but it's gives me 2.5 hours every Friday morning to live in the moment and forget everything else, which has been a real blessing. In particular, when I was working with 2/60 cottons at 140EPI, I drew on big A4 papers using long conte and charcoal sideways, making big fat marks, which was a perfect antidote to "work".
After about three terms, partially because I am really bad at proportion and shapes/contours, I've become very interested in composition. Having trying to crop my photos to make my blog interesting must be realted to this interest as well.
I do take photos, but that's not as much a serious hobby as it is a necessity and something I do with Husband. And I bake bread, the more labour intensive, the better.
I was curious as to how other creative endevours enhanced/assisted your weaving. I also understand there are a lot of scientist/mathmaticians who weave?
Look forward to reading your thoughts.
Meg