slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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I’m going to start posting these updates on Instagram unless I have something substantial or photo-worthy to share. Maybe only a weekly post here. During the last couple of days I’ve finished Jorge the Beautiful Mexican Beetle II and worked a little on threading the reed on my floor loom. (I hate warping – it…
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Finished Jorge I, after playing chicken with the very last of that old kelly green Paternayan crewel yarn from a needlepoint project in the 70s that I saved from my mother’s house when we cleaned it out. Part of my designing for this class was to try to use up some of this stuff. It’s…
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Almost finished weaving the little Jorge tapestries. I decided that I didn’t like how different his back leg was on the top side so I ignored the cartoon. Picked up where I left off about a year ago when I started warping up my floor loom. For what? Rag rug or fabric, I guess.
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It’s gonna be a hot one today with the heat index well over 100 F. I plan to get my groceries bought right after I write this post and then I’ll settle back into playing in my studio and cleaning house. I did both yesterday and it was really one of the nicest days I’ve…
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I suspect that I will weave more today or at least warp a loom, but I want to go ahead and post. One of the questions that tapestry weavers (and probably all weavers) often get asked is “How long did/does it take you to do that?” Most of us don’t like that question, because most…
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Well, I got way behind on my “special event” postings. I’ve actually been to the Tapestry Weavers South retreat since and finished writing my Mexico travel blogs from Lake Waccamaw over a month later. So I have some catching up to do, which leaves me to wonder – why am I doing it at all…
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This will be photo heavy. The source of the Waccamaw River, at the dam at Lake Waccamaw. It rained heavily off and on while we were there, but after the rain, you know…
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Our real wedding anniversary – we were married 36 years ago on this day. This was our last day in Mexico, so we made the most of it by walking around the Centro Historico and shopping. First we had lunch at Cafe de la Parroquia. Then, as we sat people watching in the Jardin Allende,…
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On Monday, many places were closed, and we spent a lot of time just hanging out and reading and watching a long Mexican farce on Netflix. Sandy decided to get on a city bus and just ride around to see wherever it took him. I found a little art supply store just around the corner…
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When I checked to see what our possibilities were for Sunday, I saw that a large art complex, Fabrica La Aurora, that had been converted from an old mill was open that afternoon. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g151932-d1439804-Reviews-Fabrica_La_Aurora-San_Miguel_de_Allende_Central_Mexico_and_Gulf_Coast.html We slept very late and lolled about, then called an Uber to take us there, where we ate a pasta lunch…
slowly she turned 