A friend of mine recently asked me how things were going with my new job as editor of Handwoven. My response: "I'm so glad I jumped." I am glad. To be honest, when I was first asked if I was interested in applying for the job of editor, my initial reaction was "I don't think so." Then as I talked about it more with my family, I started to warm up to the idea and, to my surprise, I realized that I really wanted the job. When I look back, my path to this position had a fairly straight trajectory. It began more than twenty years ago when I was a student at the Guilford Art Center in Connecticut where I learned to weave with the assistance of Linda Edwards and Lucienne Coifman. I'm pretty sure the cabinet in the classroom held every Handwoven dating back to its inception. The students would page through the magazines, find a project that struck their fancy, and either weave the same project or use the project as the basis for planning their own project.
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