slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: fiber art
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My enthusiasm to weave this is much greater than my current ability to do it!
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I have another 40 minutes to kill before going to work, so I decided that it is time to put up or shut up about the stuff I keep repeating that I’m doing here. Here’s the prayer flag. I went in an entirely different direction than my original plan after I found a piece of…
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Don’t feel like blogging tonight, but I told myself I’d blog every day this week. I’d much rather be weaving this: It is based on the blackbird photos that I took on Christmas morning. The warp and one of the wefts is black carpet warp. The blue wool must be thrums from somebody because it…
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First and foremost, I will bake the broccoli casserole for Christmas dinner tomorrow. This is usually my sister’s dish, but she is celebrating with her husband’s side of the family this year, so I get the honors! Yay, I was getting tired of doing the out-of-season asparagus casserole. I was able to buy broccoli at…
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Laura asked me what I accomplished yesterday. My answer was too long to go to waste so I’ve copied it here. I mordanted some cotton and wool fabrics with alum/soda ash and alum/cream of tartar respectively. They soaked overnight. Sandy and I went shopping mostly, but to fun places like a neighborhood bazaar in Glenwood…
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Lately I have fallen in love with Hand/Eye magazine. Their website content is absolutely awesome, and they send out emails and Facebook updates with the most fascinating articles. I decided that I wanted the print copies so I subscribed. The Central Asia issue blew me away. The magazine is gorgeous, with color from edge-to-edge. And…
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This has been a pretty good week. Susanne made lots of pulp for me in her beater, so I have made three batches of paper this week. I used so many ingredients in these that it is a little complicated to describe. From left to right: 1. Abaca (a type of banana fiber), okra, daylily,…
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Wow, at 10:20 a.m. the heat index here is already at 105 degrees. It will definitely be an indoor weekend for us. Sandy is not supposed to go out for long in temps above 85 and I’ve never been able to take the heat. One of many reasons I’d like to move to northwest North…
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When I left Melanie Testa’s class Soy Wax Batik on Monday, the last day of Art and Soul, I felt like I had made a friend. This class was so much fun and stress-free. I rolled my pieces of wet painted fabric in a roll of freezer paper and brought them home to finish off.…
slowly she turned 