My name is: Deb Robson

I teach: Textile crafts, mostly spinning and knitting, but anything with fiber is fair game–and I specialize in wools.

Why I signed up for The Great eCourse Adventure: I’ve done two video courses with the support of publishing teams, as well as some public TV segments; I’ve wanted to put together some online classes for a long time, but have trouble getting myself over the “sheesh, it’s boring” phase, and if I’m not psyched about doing it, well, it isn’t going to happen (and if it did, it would be boring)–when you said that you wanted to consider your course a work of art, that’s what got me interested. Income? Yes, of course. However, I can’t do anything I don’t find fascinating, and I like working with people who feel the same.

What kind of e-course I want to create: One that I have fun making and that others will have fun participating in. I want to learn things and convey that learning–and I want others to come away with a sense of discovery and greater personal capacity.

What makes me come most alive is: Learning things and making stuff and seeing how this connects to that and why things we enjoy doing can make the world and our lives better.

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I visit sheep in the fields. I spin yarn. I make textiles (knit, crochet, weave, other). I care about endangered breeds of livestock, and endangered communities, and endangered connections–of individuals to their own imaginations and skills, of people to each other, of humans and animals and plants to the planet.