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Oh, how I love things that last decades! Your bag woven on a box is great! I have these directions and while intrigued, I have never gotten around to making one. Perhaps now is the time.

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The bag on a box is super fun -- though note that the sides are where all the excitement lies and that weaving the bottom can be the slowest (and for some people the deal breaking) part. To that end, it might not hurt, if you try, to start with a box with a smallish bottom...

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Glad Beryl is a good nettle-pointer. One of my pooches has discovered two rattlesnakes in the last week. Happily she didn't get bit! .... Fun to watch your survey project taking shape; twelve fringeless sides, what a concept! And now I'm inspired to try that box tapestry.

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OOOH-- a buzzworm pointer. Good job. And also yipes. And also YAY that she found them for you and was not bitten. We have them at our cabin and my old dog was great at finding them -- though she was once bitten on the nose. She survived but it was a rough few days. I don't think Beryl has met any yet and I worry, not knowing how she'll behave (shy away or come closer). Sure keeps a gal from walking around barefoot though...

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Love the illustration for “Happy re-start Dance”🥰LOL

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HA! Thanks. I felt that way when it appeared on the page. "Oh yeah, that IS how I feel!"

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So fortuitous! I still have my box sans weaving ready to begin. Yes!

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Have fun (if you decide to give it a go). And as I wrote above to Logan, remember that weaving the bottom part can feel tedious to see people-- but that it is worth it to get to the delight of weaving the sides....

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Random is as random does. As a perennial ADHD brain - this suits me just perfectly. Here, there and everywhere. But the place I dove into was what is on your laptop while you spin. The Lost King hmmmmm- that's a thread to follow. I also relish that I am not the only one who admits that a wandering mind (whilst the fingers are busy) needs a focus - sometimes a video/movie/podcast/audiobook is just the thing. Thanks as always for your wisdom, humility and humor.

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Did you know about The Lost King? It is a wonderful Movie (with a most compelling and deliciously complicated protagonist --and I don't mean Richard III even though it sounds like ehe was that too), and I was thrilled to hear it had come out. As a long time "Ricardian," (The Josephine Tey novel "Daughter of Time" was where I learned much of the info), it was fun to hear the arguments in his favor on the big screen. And YES, an excellent companion to a task I wanted to stick with. Glad to know you like those things as well.

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Well, my goodness, what a thrilling project! Isn't it simply the most divine feeling to be completely enthralled with what one is doing? ps: I snagged your coffee filter obsession pdf as I have plans to also be completely enthralled with a new adventure. :-D

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It is indeed utter bliss to be enthralled with the work of the moment. Simply the best. You are so right.

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There are still a few of those woven bag-boxes here, around Bradford Guild of WSD, back from when Pete and Carol Leonard got the skills from you at SOAR many years ago and then shared it with a guild meeting. It was a long time ago. I think another workshop on it was done again this year, but someone else.

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Oh I do love thinking of Pete and Carol sharing the box bag weaving. Time collapsing and expanding at the same time. Thanks for that.

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Any thought of speed with random is all new to me. I like to go at my own random pace as much as possible! Learning so much and enjoying every bit of it! 🤗✨

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Yes-- one's own random pace is definitely where it's at!

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Everything about your post made me happy and inspired! Love the project you are working on (and the video of you cutting it back…in knitting I call restarting “yarn enjoyment”). 😊 🤗

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"Yarn enjoyment"-- brilliant phrase. And utterly appropriate.

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Love the nettles, Sarah. And I certainly remember the use of “random” as weird, odd, or strange. People have used that term to refer to me:). I generally agree with them. I think random is really interesting. I’m still sorry I missed the poll! Ah well.

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I wonder how many gusset readers and Substack writers are "Random" in that way? Many I trust. And thank goodness for that. And hopefully, there will be more polls. Just not quite yet.

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Yes, I’m guessing there are many who would consider themselves a member of that group. One poll at a time!

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You have me thinking again, and that could be dangerous.

Random doesn’t need to be something brand new and different. Put your hand in a box with your eyes shut and you can make a random selection. I do like the hand made loom though.

The woven box is amazing and reminds me of my first felted object. I felted around a tennis ball. I cut it near the top but not all the way through. I made some beaded felt balls, sliced them in half to make feet and a top notch. Being a milliner at the time, I lined it and was so proud of my creation I never gave it away as I normally do.

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You are so right -- hand in box and see what random thing it picks up. Thank you!

And also, your felted tennis ball shape given the milliner treatment sounds amazing.

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I am forever in awe of you and your creative endeavours!

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I got a small Mirrix loom before the pandemic and was really getting into but then I went back into full-time work (SAHM for 10yrs) and have lost my with it, defaulting to knitting. But you are inspiring me to dig that loom out and start anew!

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I totally get that— the comfort of simplifying and nestling into welcoming familiar techniques. And also the bliss of the resurgence of possibility inherent in something new and experiential. So happy to get to be part of the later!

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