slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: weaving
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These rugs that we bought during our June vacation from Wild Spirit Gallery in Pagosa Springs, Colorado will go on our walls, not the floor: Weaver: Marina Gonzalez Design: “Diez Pajaros” Dyes: colorfast analine Weft: wool Weaver: Ricardo Gutierrez Design: “Pasillo de la Mesa” Dyes: colorfast Lanaset Weft: wool
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My right hand has feeling in it again, after a long night of waking up with it numb. If you’ve never experienced this, you might think that having a limb go to sleep while you are asleep would not disrupt your sleep, right? I mean, that seems logical. Wearing my wrist brace helps a lot…
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It has been a stressful week, but for the most part it has been good stress. I am psyched up and excited about the future. I haven’t had a panic attack, though, which is very encouraging since I have been super-wired and sleep-deprived because of hormones all week. In fact, I haven’t had a panic…
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I finished the labyrinth tapestry several weeks ago, and forgot that I had not posted it. I don’t have a camera right now but I do have a scanner. The first photo is the tapestry and the second is the photograph of the labyrinth at Healing Ground in Oak Ridge that inspired the tapestry.
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This third hat from last week is mine, MINE! The hatband is inkle-woven from cotton threads. I looked out over the lake and designed it from the view. At first I resisted putting the blue and brown together, but the lake is the color of tea and the sky and sun reflects off it. When…
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I thought that I might share a little about my creative process in doing the mini tapestries. It’s so simple that it won’t take long. Reading Living the Creative Life and The Artist’s Way made me think about this, and I figure that it’s worth sharing. This is my current workspace in the Happy Room,…
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“By the Sea: Wave”; series of tapestry artist trading cards. Woven on cardboard loom. Linen warp, cotton weft. 3.5 x 2.5 inches. “By the Sea: Tidal Pools”; series of tapestry artist trading cards, woven for trading at Art & Soul in early May. I drew on memories of Sunset Beach and Tubbs Inlet for these…
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Here are the first two small tapestries of a series of four. This is “Earth” and “Fire.” Guess what the other two will be! I took a piece of the cardboard box that I used for my tapestry bag and decided to work that part of the design in different colors. The loom is just…
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My goal today was to complete a woven artist trading card, and I achieved that goal! Well, almost. I have to put a backing on it, but I think that I’m going to wait until I get about half a dozen woven and back all of them at the same time. Earlier this month, I…
slowly she turned 