slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: tapestry
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Dorota Wronska, “Dance”; Laurie O’Neill, “98% Water”; Sharon Crary, “It Seems to Be” As many of you know, my tapestry “98% Water” was accepted into the American Tapestry Biennial 11 and the exhibition is traveling to three venues: the South Bend Museum of Art in Indiana, Mulvane Art Museum in Kansas, and the San Jose…
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A postcard tapestry for the unjuried exhibition Travelling Tapestry: Textile Mail Art, a collaboration of The Museo Textil de Oaxaca, the Museo de la Filatelia de Oaxaca, and the American Tapestry Alliance. The deadline to mail it by regular postal service mail was today and I made it! “Save Our State”, 5″ x 7″, cotton.
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It’s been a busy time, but after this week I should have more time to devote to this blog as well as my artistic pursuits. I work at a university and graduation is tomorrow. Since I last wrote, I made a travel journal for a friend who is retiring from the University, I began weaving…
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We have a delayed opening at work until noon because of the winter storm we had over the weekend, and since the cats would not let me sleep late, and Sandy has gone to work and there is a working computer free in my house, I figured I’d do a blog post. One of my…
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“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin This past week was some wild ride. After a weekend of pleasant social occasions, including some of the best roasted oysters ever, I braced myself for the first day of classes at work on Monday, constantly reminding myself that…
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2015 was a very full year. Although I feel like I didn’t blog that much, I realize that I did write about the big events, and as usual, found that there were more of those than I realized. We traveled a LOT. From January to March, I wrestled with my new-to-me Shannock tapestry loom until…
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I’m very happy to report that after months of simply not being able to make myself weave “Cathedral” I am in the studio enjoying it very much. However, my laptop is pretty much kaput. I’m blogging on my Kindle now, which I am not fond of doing, but I want to finish my project of…
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I’m just going to ramble on for a little while here. I will finish weaving “Migraine Day” today, but I’ve decided to experiment with this piece and make it part of a bigger piece about perception with stitching. It will remain on the loom for a while because I’m going to use the other side…
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I planned to blog and weave and such this morning, but my husband surprised me by getting up very early and he wanted to go to the farmers market and an art show this morning, so that’s what I did instead. There was a show of ten artists at the Worx restaurant downtown and they…
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You know, I am NOT a holiday person. I do celebrate Buy Nothing Day and Festivus. This year will be the first year in many that I have not spent at least part of the long Thanksgiving weekend at my mother’s house. She passed away a year and a half ago. Today was supposed to…
slowly she turned 