{"id":2448,"date":"2011-02-12T08:27:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T13:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2011-02-12T08:27:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T13:27:35","slug":"when-the-student-is-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2011\/02\/when-the-student-is-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"“When the student is ready…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…the teacher will appear.”<\/p>\n

It’s a pretty famous Buddhist saying. And it just became real for me.<\/p>\n

When I posted my 2010 wannas<\/a>, one of the things I mentioned was that I wanted to learn new weaving techniques. And that I’d joined a Su Butler’s<\/a> napkin exchange as one concrete strategy to help me do so. I’d already told Su that block weaves was one of the options for things that I’d like to try.
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\nI hadn’t done any block weaving before. The last few times I’d looked at that chapter in Deborah Chandler’s Learning To Weave book, she may as well have been speaking Zubulian — I didn’t understand anything she was trying to tell me.<\/p>\n

At the February Southern Tier Fiber Arts Guild<\/a> meeting, I asked a woman if she had a good handle on block theory, figuring I could get the concept if someone was telling me vs. reading a book. Unfortunately, she didn’t.<\/p>\n

\"handwoven<\/a>A few days later I got the new issue of Handwoven, and there were designs in there that were similar to what I had in mind for the napkins. So I got out my graph paper and started drawing, thinking that was the place to start.<\/p>\n

Hah! I couldn’t even replicate the design in the magazine, much less create one of my own! And I sure wasn’t any closer to understanding what the heck I was doing. <\/p>\n

So I pulled out Chandler’s book again. I started reading. Still looked like Zubulian to me. <\/p>\n

\"block<\/a>Then all of a sudden something clicked and those foreign characters start to turn into English! I went back to the graph paper again, and could actually draw something that made sense! And I understood that each of those graph paper squares represents 4 threaded heddles and 4 throws of the shuttle, and how to plan all that detail.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, within about 24 hours, I got an email hawking a new book – delivered electronically in PDF format – all about weaving block theory.<\/p>\n

I haven’t yet figured out how many threads I’ll need in the napkins, so haven’t begun to do the final planning yet, but I KNOW I can design what I want. Even more surprising to me, I know that there’s at least an 85% chance that the design in my head can be woven on my beloved four-harness counterbalance loom.<\/p>\n

Sometimes life is sweet. I try to really appreciate it when it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…the teacher will appear.”<\/p>\n

It’s a pretty famous Buddhist saying. And it just became real for me.<\/p>\n

When I posted my 2010 wannas, one of the things I mentioned was that I wanted to learn new weaving techniques. And that I’d joined a Su Butler’s napkin exchange as one concrete strategy to help me do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32,522,304],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-counterbalance-loom","tag-napkin-exchange","tag-towels-linens","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}