slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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Today will be a studio day, but I might be taking it outside. It will be beautiful, then we’ll be back to a couple of cold days. I’m excited about the redesign of my “Chaos!” tapestry. I researched the Eye of Horus and that led me to the Eye of Ra (or Re), so they…
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I’ve added a bit of flavored decaffeinated coffee to the pot so I can drink more of it this fine morning. My biggest news is that on my 65th birthday, which I celebrated on Tuesday, I received word that I was awarded a week-long artist residency at Wildacres the second week of September! I can’t…
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Polar vortex report: We were slammed with two winter storms one week apart severe enough to be granted the names of Fern and Gianni. Fern was sleet and ice, what we normally get around here when we get any winter weather. No fun at all and the ice accumulation meant that a lot of people…
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Well. Not all the looms. I have a lot of looms! I am pleased with how the tapestry weather diary is coming along. Last year I purposely started it in a bit of a chaotic design, but this year I have taken what I learned and calmed it down. It is more structured with same…
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I think that I’ve figured out that I’m going back to stitching and creating woven pieces with cloth strips and paper every day and integrating found objects as I get a whim. The ones that I’ve done in the past provided me with a lot of pleasure. However, the problem with this plan is that…
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First, here’s my current tapestry project. I’m still musing over a title because it is truly abstract. What I’ve noticed is that the lines and shapes have taken on lives of their own in my mind. Right now I’m leaning toward “Fuzzy Dreams.” The inspiration and cartoon is a painting I did in a mark…
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It’s time for my annual ritual of summarizing the previous year and writing about my hopes and plans for the next year. In 2025, I let go of more of my blogging and turned my blog into more of a web site. In late January I headed to Tucson, Arizona to visit my dear friend…
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A long weekend over Halloween at the Big Lynn Lodge in Little Switzerland was another balm to my soul. I found this group of fiber artists on Facebook, and not knowing a soul there, I headed off for the Blue Ridge Mountains again. Now I have a new group of friends. The only requirement to…
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This was the third year that I’ve attended Edwina Bringle‘s fiber art retreat at Wildacres Retreat near Little Switzerland, NC. I’ve fallen in love with this area (and Edwina). It broke my heart when Hurricane Helene devastated so much here last year just after I left. The people here at the time had to be…
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If you’ve been following me for a while, I guess you’ve noticed that my website has changed. Drastically. I can’t say I’m that happy about it, but I was fiddling around with some different templates, thinking that I was looking at a preview, and instead lost my previous template. It was an older one, for…
slowly she turned 