slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: weaving
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Tuesday, August 26, morning low tide in Cannon Beach, Oregon Pam helps me with the finishing touches on my wee tapestry, “Laurie Meets the Pacific” or “Saint Feet.” Linda Weghorst’s small tapestry
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The rest of the day was devoted to weaving our tiny sample tapestries and Pam discussing her work. She showed us many of her samples for her large commissions and smaller pieces in a series of personal work she is doing. She had asked us to write down what kind of boat we would choose…
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On Sunday, I took a walk on the beach with my camera in tow. I nearly wore it out. I learned that the greyish green circular blobs blossomed into sea anemones. The starfish were celebrating in their party clothes. The sea gulls were really, um, mean to each other. Linda Weghorst showed us her portfolio…
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By the second day, I felt like I was where I should be. I felt like I was home. I feel this way every time I go to the West Coast. Pam started us off with a design exercise. She passed out small pieces of gesso board and a piece of yupo paper to make…
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First, here’s a lovely blog post about an India Flint experience in Scotland. Made me quite jealous until I remembered the big adventure coming my way in less than a month: six days in a tapestry retreat on the Oregon coast! It brought back sweet memories of the workshop I took with India last summer,…
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My progress as of three days ago. I have to find the battery charger for my camera. It is in the new place that I decided would be the logical place that I would look for it the last time I lost and found it. Maybe I need a hypnotist. Work began on the new…
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(Don’t worry, s/he was a little critter, about three feet long head to tail. More scared of me than I of her.) I ended up going to my cousin’s house at Lake Waccamaw on Thursday afternoon, after a stop at Mama’s house to pack up some of her art supplies, including many very nice watercolor…
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Actually, I’ve gotten about an inch farther than this, but I don’t have my camera with me. Really loving getting into this part of it. For the dark area on the right, I split the navy and dark teal yarns (each has five strands) and wove them together. I thought about twisting them but this…
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I’ve gotten about another inch done on the tapestry. The lower part will have more blocks of solid color, but as I get higher, there will be more color mixing such as in this detail: That is where the sacking needle comes in handy. I think that the solid chunks of color near the bottom…
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I’m calling it “98% Water” for now. The light green band at the bottom is meant to be turned back for a hem or stretched to the back if I decided to mount this on canvas stretchers. It was the color that I began with for the teal color and realized that it was entirely…
slowly she turned 