Clarissa Rizal weaving a “Diving Whale Lovebirds” Chilkat robe – May 2013
One morning in early January, I woke up thinking about all the Chilkat weavings I started a year or two (or even three(?) ago: the Chilkat robe for a couple from Seattle, the leggings for my friend Preston, a handbag for Cherri, the doll started with my daughter Lily, etc. Incomplete projects tend to nag; they drag down energy . No one likes a nag; and I surely don’t like to be dragged down. I was once a nag, but learned it didn’t do any good. Yet did any of these Chilkat weavings learn not to nag to their maker? No, because it’s not the weavings that are nagging; it’s that other part of me that’s nagging – so really I hadn’t ever given up the art of nagging – what a revelation! So, that early morning in January, I said to myself: “…this is my year for Chilkat weaving. I’m going to complete all that I started…and then some…” And I am doing so. I’m quitting the nag business!