slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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A Weaverly Path Trailer from Kenny Dalsheimer on Vimeo. It turns out that one of my favorite tapestry artists, Sylvia Heyden, lives in Durham and gets her inspiration from the Eno River. This is a trailer for a film made about her work.
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I’ve had another one of those moody weeks. I decided to take the week off from working with my hands to give them a needed rest. Now I’m itching to get back into the studio, make some prints, design a new warp and get that started, since it will take a while. Week before last,…
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Howdy. I’m taking my lunch to work and I am going to find a few more corners to cut in order to save up for a trip to here: http://www.artparadiseinportugal.com/ with Sandy next year. It will be our 25th wedding anniversary year. Leighanna Light is going to teach a class there and I just loved…
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The most wonderful thing about weekend mornings is that when I have a hot flash I can strip off all my clothes and stand in front of the open refrigerator. Last weekend I did get the studio cleaned up and the warp wound on my loom. I ended up going back to my original idea…
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Gosh, can I even remember this week? Is it worth remembering? I can tell you that I spent much of it in a blue funk after the political hatefulness that occurred against my friends and family in this state. It made me realize that I cannot sit back and ignore the news, even though I…
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A blighted area of rundown turn of the century industrial buildings and warehouses beside the river becomes a hub of creativity as artists and restaurants and a brewery move in. What a lovely idea. We spent a rainy Labor Day morning strolling around the River Arts District in Asheville. Unfortunately, Mondays, and especially holidays, are…
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On Sunday, our first stop after a lazy morning in bed was the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Murphy fiber artist Sandra Rowland was one of the featured artists and she was demonstrating sun prints on fabric outside. Her quilts were fabulous because of her richly hued nature printed fabrics, but I…
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Another thing that I love about Asheville is that it is a Slow Food city. Its restaurants, for the most part, take supporting the local farmers and food artisans seriously. I ate at a variety of places in Asheville, including a bowl of Cheerios at the Days Inn, where Juanita loudly groused, “You don’t like…
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Miss Lucy is not only back to normal, she has become quite spoiled with all the extra attention she received in the past few weeks. Thank God, because I don’t think that we could have afforded many more vet bills. I’m trying very hard to break my addiction to art retreats until I can get…
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Pole-wrapped sleeves. Hate, hate, hate the pink one. It wasn’t my intended color (I was trying for deep purple) and it didn’t change when I overdyed in dark blue. Silk is tricky. But I do like the red/brown one. It was “supposed” to be brown. These samples are from a silk blouse that I bought…
slowly she turned 