Here I am, sitting between a stack of boxes ready to go into the car, surrounded by a few lists to check and check off - preparing for going to the Nobilitas-Akademie and the Textile Forum.

Like every year just before the Forum, I'm all excited and hope that everything will go smoothly; and like every year, I will be taking some time off the blog for the Forum. This year is the year of back-to-back events, as I'll be going from the Akademie straight to the Forum and from there straight to my Granny, who will turn 95 this year (and obviously, this has to be celebrated!) so I won't be back on the blog until November 17...

...when I will hopefully be able to tell you about interesting results from our Forum experiments!