genre fantasy, magic. plot traveling mage with cursed sword

[April]

i read the book around twenty years ago in school when i had horses and the book had a lady on a horse and the story was something about a mage traveling with a cursed sword who found an apprentice or two she had a thing for normal woman skills like weaving even though she was bad at it and a old lady had to fix the loom for her. i remember having to turn the book in before i got to finish it and get a required to read book for class.