slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: weaving
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Book covers in progress. Painted papers from Albie Smith’s workshop + trash pickings from Patti Grass’ workshop. I can never stay out of a trash can at a book/paper art workshop. The last two covers are for a book that I was stuck on for a long time. Finally I decided to ditch the idea…
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When I first began weaving this piece, some shadowy figures emerged from the painted paper. “What are you waiting for?” they whispered. I unwove it all and thought about the nature of waiting and what I am waiting to do and what I am waiting for as I wrote on the weft paper strips and…
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I have had loads of fun weaving painted papers this week. This is why you should save your ugliest papers. Not only might they serve as a background layer for something else, but something interesting happens when you slice and dice and weave them with other papers (or the other half of the same paper).…
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I think that I might weave skies for a while…
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Well, almost. I’m going to weave another half inch of blue to turn back for a hem at the top. And I’m trying to decide between the names “Puget Sound Sunrise” and “Port Townsend Sunrise” – I like the second for the preciseness of location, but the first for the sound of it, and that…
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The clouds at the top of this piece are going to prove to be the most challenging. I may need to dye some silk. But I’m going to try to go back in with a little dark grey on the tops of the bottom clouds and mix in a little more light grey on the…
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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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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…
slowly she turned 