Practice, Practice, Practice

After the information overload last weekend most of us have been making little things to cement what we learned. My practice has been to work at a much smaller scale than I normally would and the puareare/holes. 

And of course, an essential part of any work at home, the ‘helper’.

Weaving Overload

My brain is full (in a good way) and I’m exhausted (also in a good way). It’s been a massive week with two big formal welcomes and a long day and a half with weavers from up north getting our heads around all the techniques they were sharing. 

Arty Easter

Easter weekend was quiet, mainly by design but also because I had quite a reaction to my Covid/Flu jabs. 

What I did do was finally make it to Te Papa to see the amazing installation pieces from the Mata Aho Collective. They are a group of young weavers who work with contemporary materials on a massive scale and their pieces are truly amazing. 

This one in particular is truly amazing, a ceiling made from webbing. One weaving friend says it feels like you’re inside a kete and she’s right. 

Double Dipping

On the 1st of April the next round of Covid boosters became available along with the annual winter flu jab. Last Thursday I decided I may as well take up the offer of getting it all sorted in one go. Down side has been a day of headaches and feeling fuggely, upside is that my local pharmacy is at the top of the game bandaid wise. 

It’s the Little Things

I am so pleased that, when I had all the work done on my house last year, I got the builders to put three hooks by the back door. Not a big thing but this week we’ve had our first proper blasting, sideways rain southerly heralding the start of autumn and I am so happy to have those hooks.