slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: tapestry
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Latest progress on the Sunrise Tapestry. I could see doing a series of these from the photos I took of this one particular sunrise. But I’ll need to order or dye more purple silk. A commission that I just finished. It is a gift for a historian. I’ll write a coffee pot post tomorrow morning.
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My enthusiasm to weave this is much greater than my current ability to do it!
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For a short week, there sure was a lot of stuff packed into it. I hope that the email in the last post about Elements Gallery means that it is moving forward despite not getting the number of artists that they hoped for at the beginning. I believe that once the gallery opens again and…
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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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I finished the labyrinth tapestry several weeks ago, and forgot that I had not posted it. I don’t have a camera right now but I do have a scanner. The first photo is the tapestry and the second is the photograph of the labyrinth at Healing Ground in Oak Ridge that inspired the tapestry.
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I thought that I might share a little about my creative process in doing the mini tapestries. It’s so simple that it won’t take long. Reading Living the Creative Life and The Artist’s Way made me think about this, and I figure that it’s worth sharing. This is my current workspace in the Happy Room,…
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“By the Sea: Wave”; series of tapestry artist trading cards. Woven on cardboard loom. Linen warp, cotton weft. 3.5 x 2.5 inches. “By the Sea: Tidal Pools”; series of tapestry artist trading cards, woven for trading at Art & Soul in early May. I drew on memories of Sunset Beach and Tubbs Inlet for these…
slowly she turned 