Synopses & Reviews
For twenty-five years, Linda Ligon--founder of Interweave Press--has offered up her wonder, puzzlement, joy, sass, consternation, and wisdom to an audience who shares her passion for the fiber arts. "This is How I Go When I Go Like This gathers the finest of Ligon's reflections--introspective, poignant, sometimes serious, sometimes funny--on the interlacing of life and craft. No object or behavior is too ordinary for the sparkling stories she weaves, celebrating the soulful practice of spinning and weaving. She'll compel you to reflect on the foundations of your own life, all the while entertaining you with her funny and frank musings.
Synopsis
This collection of Linda Collier Ligon's essays in Handwoven magazine traces the ups and downs, joys and trials, and people and events of the weaving world over the last 25 years. In these essays textiles are the window to the world, and questions such as What does it mean to have a loom-shaped life? What's warp, what's weft? and What are the interlacements? are explored with precise, probing insight that is always engaging. Whether urging readers to act, describing her battles with a fine linen yarn, or recounting her computer's spell-check replacements for weaving terms, these essays from the founder of Interweave Press will enchant, amuse, and delight.
About the Author
Linda Collier Ligon is author of Homespun, Handknit. She is the founder and president of Interweave Press, which publishes six magazines and has more than a 100 books in print. She lives in Loveland, Colorado.