slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: cloth weaving
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The next (final?) denim panel woven in a log cabin “color and weave” pattern, and a portable cloth weaving project with Sandy’s old shirts to be sewn into a lightweight blanket later. I was not able to stay out of the church studio so the AC went back on and I was much happier. Even…
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A woven cloth square with a soy batik sample that I made in one of Melanie Testa’s classes long ago.
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Playing with a photo app on my Kindle, thinking about weaving tapestry again.
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Today is the first full day I’ve gotten off because of snow in a long time! I can walk to work and I don’t have children, so usually I end up going in. But the university was closed today. Yay! So I fired up the wood stove and played with weaving some denim strips. I…
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This is what you get for action photos of the kittens until I get the good camera fixed. Blue and orange has become my favorite color combination.
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This weaving has some preciousness – strips from my father’s flannel shirt, my husband’s linen shirt, my favorite pajama pants that I finally wore out. My mother gave me a lot of her old quilting scraps. They are a little too country gingham for my taste, but good for a little brightness peeking out from…
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I worked in the Back Forty putting down cardboard in anticipation of the load of mulch Sandy plans to get from the landfill, and pulled up some vines and weeds. But did I take photos? No. So, here’s another woven cloth square. I really like this one. Theo likes the fancy pillows.
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More squares of mostly denim. I recognize a couple of my favorite jeans here. My plan is to make a sturdy blanket for outdoor lounging. Sandy and I went downtown to Scuppernong Books, which entranced me so much that I forgot to take a photo. So being eye-level with the traffic light on the parking…
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Ready for spring, sick of the mud On my street – my house is the green one on the right.
slowly she turned 