slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: tapestry
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Edwina Bringle, one of the leading fiber artists in our region, invited several fiber artists to play with her at Wildacres Retreat near Little Switzerland, NC in mid-September. Spending almost a week with Edwina to observe her weaving tips and tricks, listen to her counsel, and getting to know her better was one of the…
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I cannot truthfully say that I have woven every day this week, but I’ve enjoyed some good sessions weaving the tapestry of Rascal and Sissy. My intention was to make this more of a graphic geometric abstract, but just look at Miss Sissy’s ear. It just yells out for attention to detail. I decided that…
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I’m going to start posting these updates on Instagram unless I have something substantial or photo-worthy to share. Maybe only a weekly post here. During the last couple of days I’ve finished Jorge the Beautiful Mexican Beetle II and worked a little on threading the reed on my floor loom. (I hate warping – it…
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Finished Jorge I, after playing chicken with the very last of that old kelly green Paternayan crewel yarn from a needlepoint project in the 70s that I saved from my mother’s house when we cleaned it out. Part of my designing for this class was to try to use up some of this stuff. It’s…
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Almost finished weaving the little Jorge tapestries. I decided that I didn’t like how different his back leg was on the top side so I ignored the cartoon. Picked up where I left off about a year ago when I started warping up my floor loom. For what? Rag rug or fabric, I guess.
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I suspect that I will weave more today or at least warp a loom, but I want to go ahead and post. One of the questions that tapestry weavers (and probably all weavers) often get asked is “How long did/does it take you to do that?” Most of us don’t like that question, because most…
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I’m doing a catch-up post about the tapestry design workshop and Tapestry Weavers South retreat that I attended the first week in June. MJ Lord taught the workshop, “Birds, Bugs, and Butterflies,” based on her colorful abstract design work based on nature. It was the perfect workshop for me since I’ve really been into birds…
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I went to Asheville with my sister this past weekend to the Tapestry Weavers South get-together at the Folk Art Center exhibition of “Follow the Thread.” She drove from Lake Waccamaw, we had lunch at Sushi Republic, then she drove us to Asheville. That’s a lot of driving in one day! That evening we had…
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Can’t say that I’ve gotten much accomplished this weekend other than laundry. I looked over this stitching project and realized that life is too short to be compulsive about doing all this when I’m really not thrilled about most of the pieces. I whittled it down to the long piece and the mostly blue piece…
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Oh my god, I can’t believe that WordPress just ate my entire post without saving it. I really have to reconsider using this platform. I’m paying for it and it can be such a pain. Maybe I will have to start writing it separately and pasting it in. Anyway, hmmm. I was writing about the…
slowly she turned 