slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Slow cloth
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Can’t type too much – I’m gonna have to lay low on the blogging for a while. Here are some photos from the past week: ^more pieces for the shirt coverlet ^cut the denim blanket in half, much easier to finish and lighter to carry. ^I keep this watercolor sample sheet that my mother kept…
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Mood swings. High highs, low lows, and blah in between. Not much liking my brain activity these days except when I’m in the studio. August is historically difficult for me. I’ll get through it. It’s harder when I have tendinitis (currently my right hand) and I know that if I use it I will progressively…
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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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The studio window at 10 a.m. – a valiant effort to keep the heat out. Well, it is hot as Hades here, just like you would expect, except hotter. The church is concerned about me leaving the air conditioner on in the studio when I’m not there, although when I told the secretary that it…
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This time, from the studio that I rent at a nearby church! I have this floor to myself these days, at least on the weekends and evenings when I can get here. I guess it is just too hot for most people. Turning on my little AC unit the night before and covering my east-facing…
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I started saving old jeans and other denim several years ago because I wanted to make a rugged blanket that I could put down on the ground and play on outside. Then I discovered Jude Hill’s wonderful art site and learned about some of her ideas for design and stitching cloth together. What really rang…
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At the beginning of August I spent a week at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in a class taught by Erika Hanson about nomadic weaving systems. The original idea was that the class would do outdoor site installations on campus, but the plan changed when the days were heavy with muggy 90 plus degree…
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Before I move on with my day, let me post about this ongoing art project that began in September, 2013. Here’s what I wrote about it to send to India Flint for this project. Our family farm sits upon the site of a Native American village and mound site from around 900 years ago. In…
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As much as I realized that I need to work on my ceramics class, I knew that it would be dumb to build a scroll box or stand without even beginning to make the scroll, so I devoted yesterday to dyeing with the broomsedge I’d collected. I made two dyepots for comparison. One was with…
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I’m busy busy busy with my Ceramics III class, but I have taken a little time to do some natural dyeing. Last Sunday, Sandy and I found a vacant lot with lots of goldenrod blooming. I tore blisters on my hands harvesting it so there’s a lesson for me, but I couldn’t wait to go…
slowly she turned 