slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: fiber art
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Today my magic hands cloth, which has been magically making itself, told me what it was. It says that it is a flag. It says that it is MY flag. The flag of me. I wondered for a long time what it was. I pinned together what may possibly be the rest of the design.…
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I am a featured artist at Elements Gallery for the month of December. Most of my work is in a beautiful wooden cabinet near the front window and my two precious sunrise tapestries are hanging on an endcap on the right near the back. I’ve added a colorful cotton scarf and a rustic little woven…
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Both were inspired by a spectacular sunrise seen from a bluff at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, Washington, on Oct. 25, 2009, the morning I left the first Journalfest. Don’t believe the colors? Look here. Cotton warp, mostly silk weft – some handspun and hand dyed – hanging in wooden shadowboxes. Each tapestry…
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Feeling poetic today. Came home for lunch and spent a little time weaving in the studio. It was so pleasant listening to the rain while I wove that I found it impossible to go back to work. So I called in sick (and it wasn’t too far off the mark, my sinuses are bugging me…
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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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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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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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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…
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This Labor Day weekend was so fabulous that I am going to divide it up into several posts. First, the reason I went: Shibori + MX Dyes with Heather Allen-Swarttouw at Cloth Fiber Workshop. The Japanese word shibori translates as “to bind” in English. I’m not going to try to give a lesson in shibori…
slowly she turned 