slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: art
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working with line
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Playing with fine lines in wee urban landscape tapestry on my little frame loom. This one is 4.5 x 4.5 inches and is designed from a photo that I took out of a classroom window at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington. There was a wooden staircase next to the window and sidewalks and a…
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Here it is just before going into the weekend, when I hope to spend hours on it. Did I have a time with getting this correctly warped! It would have been fine the way it was, I think. I decided to remove the paper from the loom and retie the warps on the bottom. That…
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I’m wondering if I should rename it 50 Shades of Green. This will be the most complex tapestry I’ve ever done. I’m so excited about the challenge! This rascal is why I have to keep my loom in my closet.
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These were actually taken before Christmas, but they are probably still there and I love street art.
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I finished “98% Tapestry” well before midnight and my friend Susanne was there to photograph the cutting off. Now I’m working on the Philippine edge on the hems. I’m still unsure how I’ll mount it.
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This year I spent Thanksgiving weaving on my tapestry at home and Sandy and I ate dinner with the Martin/Baker family, a bunch of hooligans beyond compare, just my kind of people. Great cooks too. Here is what was on Susanne’s loom.
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It’s slow going, mainly because my life and house is messy right now, but I only have about three inches left to weave on “98% Water.” My new-to-me Shannock tapestry loom is still sealed in the shipping box, because I don’t have a place to put it with our belongings scattered about in boxes. Most…
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As with the other class, I was so completely engrossed in Sharon Payne Bolton’s Far East class that I didn’t get many process photos. However, I took a lot of photos of her books and my classmates’ books for inspiration and they are on my Flickr page. The photo above is of the front cover…
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Roxanne took this photo of me on the second day of our class, when we went on a field trip to Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma, California. The task before us was to sketch and take photos of the many unusual sculpture gardens on site, and I went a little crazy on the photos. In this…
slowly she turned 