slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: weaving
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I didn’t do any serious weaving while we were at Pam’s. I played around with color combinations and followed along with her lessons with Susanne, which were very helpful to me too, since I never received any formal training in tapestry. I sketched an idea for another small tree tapestry and came home with many…
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My friend Susanne and I went to northwest Oregon for a fabulous ten days, where we rented a sweet retreat from our friend Pam Patrie, who also stayed with us and cooked for us and taught us tapestry techniques and helped us build copper pipe looms a la Archie Brennan and went to a book…
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Cathedral First, here is the progress with the big bald cypress tapestry, which I had been calling “Hammock View” but have renamed “Cathedral.” I’m not working on it as much right now since the weather turned nasty hot and the mosquitoes came out. It’s been nice to weave on the front porch with the natural…
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Here’s the finished tapestry. I began another from the same design but I’m weaving it from the other way so that I have to use different, more difficult techniques. It will have a rosy pink background because the sight that inspired the design was the trees against the sunrise reflecting on the water. You’ll see…
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Morning view from my bedroom window Well, now I am really, really behind. I have another trip to blog and I hadn’t finished the April trip yet. AND, I go back to Pam’s cabin for another tapestry retreat in three weeks! So, here’s the rest of the scoop on the tapestry retreat with Archie and…
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View of the surf and trees below the house. On Friday morning I got up to find Jeanne sitting at the table drawing with watercolor pencils and the other women gone downhill to walk on the beach. Jeanne offered her pencils for me to try them and I ended up, quite unintentionally, with my tapestry…
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Here’s my latest progress with “Hammock View.” Detail: I’m leaving tomorrow for my long workshop with Archie Brennan and Susan Martin Maffei in Cannon Beach, Oregon. As always, my nerves are shot before a big trip. I’m going to spend the night with my sister tonight so that I’ll be a little closer to the…
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I weave on the front porch as much as possible to take advantage of the natural light and the pleasant weather now. Here’s the progress on “Hammock View.” About half of this will be turned over for a hem, so I am not very far along at all. Good thing that I’m not in a…
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working with line
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Playing with fine lines in wee urban landscape tapestry on my little frame loom. This one is 4.5 x 4.5 inches and is designed from a photo that I took out of a classroom window at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington. There was a wooden staircase next to the window and sidewalks and a…
slowly she turned 