Thread & Wood

If you look back you will see that I've been working on my lucet book for a long time. A very long time. A really long time. I finally wrote everything I thought I needed for my book. Whew! Then I hired a technical editor. Now I know that I did not have everything I needed. Well, not quite everything I needed. But the book is shaping up. Now, if I can just keep from changing things I'll be set.

Back in 2020 I stopped writing in the blog as we were preparing to sell our house. Then we moved to an apartment. Then we moved out of...

Recently I decided to make a new backpack purse for myself. I decided to upcycle men's trousers for the lining. The crease of the pant...

Let’s say you have a sewing pattern for a stuffed animal, but the critter comes out bigger than you want it. Or, maybe you want to sew it...

Here’s a weaving hack for those people like me. I’ve had some problems with pain in the joints of my hands, especially my palms. That...

I found only one reference to how much yarn one needs for a lucet braid in the printed resources I have. I found another resource that...

In the time I’ve been using a lucet I’ve learned a few different things about lucets. First, your hand must be comfortable using a lucet....

In knitting and crochet, gauge is measured by the number of stitches per inch (or centimeter). I want to be able to talk about gauge with...

I’m anticipating doing a several short blog posts about my current project, writing a book about using the lucet. I started developing a...

I was having symptoms that finally became diagnosable in May 2017. Last year I developed a related problem that put me into the hospital...

This post is about how I developed a (new-to-me) product, purse charms using a thread spool. Braids made using the 3-ply technique, which...

The telling of this story about weaving towels has been rather protracted. Sorry about that. We left the story when I had finished...