{"id":5421,"date":"2023-10-08T08:16:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T15:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handweavingacademystatic.memberhost.io\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2024-04-16T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:11:20","slug":"meet-dawn-our-tech-support-and-so-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handweavingacademy.com\/meet-dawn-our-tech-support-and-so-much-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Dawn, our tech support, and so much more!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dawn is our resident tech support, class, and Color Editor guru, as well as being a weaver and fiber enthusiast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with her, I have come to realize that this fantastic person is kind, intelligent, funny, loving, creative, and a darn good friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on to hear more about her, in her own words. ~ Kathy<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I moved around a lot as a kid, but my favorite time was when we lived in the woods in rural Pennsylvania.  We had a fabulous yard, full of weeds like pokeberries and goldenrod, and a menagerie of pets that included Lamb Chop, the sheep who thought she was a dog.  Mom learned to spin Lamb Chop\u2019s wool, and dye it with those \u201cweeds\u201d from the yard. This is now one of my favorite treasures!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In  my teens, I was a cooking show addict in the days of Julia Child and The Galloping Gourmet, and slipped down the baking rabbit hole. Fast forward 15 years, and I was an executive secretary to a huge non-profit, going to pastry school at night, and baking for friends, family and coworkers, on EVERY occasion.  I dreamed of a sweet little French pastry shop, but soon realized I wasn\u2019t cut out for the grind of brides and theme-cakes and being sticky all the time!<\/p>\n\n\n

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I started knitting because my twin did – it\u2019s a thing.  Because I was at a desk all day, the internet was always there, and I discovered the magic of online knitting communities. A group of online friends and I went down the fibre rabbithole together. Knitting, spinning, dyeing, and finally, weaving!  If string was involved, we were all over it!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I bought an Ashford Knitter\u2019s Loom for my then-husband in 2006 hoping he would find a hobby, but it was soon all mine. By then I was on Ravelry<\/a>.  I used a LOT of my yarn stash on the rigid heddle loom, and made some fabulous moebius shawls, but very quickly had shaft envy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to use my feet, too!  Everyone was weaving pinwheels and I was completely in love with that pattern.  The planets and stars aligned to lead me to my first floor loom – a gigantic 8S, 12T. 40\u201d Gilmore. I was over the moon!  We were together for years – she was a great loom.  <\/p>\n\n\n

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I like to make useful<\/em> things, so dishtowels flew off my loom.  My mom still makes people get their hands wet so they can feel how absorbent my first waffle-weave towels are! I also dreamed of sewing with my handwoven fabric, and spent three years thinking about, planning, weaving, testing, and sewing a Baja poncho.  <\/p>\n\n\n

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I had a hard time wrapping my head around OLAD (Obsessive Loom Aquisition Disorder), until a couple years later I suddenly had four looms in my possession, plus inkle and card weaving looms.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My dream loom – a Baby Wolf I\u2019ve yet to weave on, is currently in storage.  I dream of weaving with all the silk and cotton I\u2019ve spun over the years, and Janet\u2019s Twill Generator<\/a> has me salivating over Wall of Troy and slash-dot twills.  I live vicariously through the members of the Handweaving Academy for now, and look forward to joining them, posting my creations in the forums and sharing them with everyone! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love everything about the Academy – from working with and learning from our incredible team, to spending time with members in webinars and meetings and online.\u00a0 I love seeing light bulbs flashing when the understanding of a topic falls in place. Weavers being excited to learn and share makes every day better for me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Dawn is our resident tech support, class, and Color Editor guru, as well as being a weaver and fiber enthusiast. Working with her, I have come to realize that this fantastic person is kind, intelligent, funny, loving, creative, and a darn good friend. Read on to hear more about her, in her own words. ~ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handweavingacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handweavingacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handweavingacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handweavingacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handweavingacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/handweavingacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"https:\/\/handweavingacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handweavingacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handweavingacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handweavingacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handweavingacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}