Snow and Weaving

 Ok, so you have to understand we live in the South, pretty far in the South, and so for us what is a dusting for most of you, is quite the event here in Atlanta.  We had about 8", the most I have ever seen since we lived here.  When you don't have to go out it is quite beautiful.  Even though this was a really wet snow it looked light and lovely coming down.   It snowed starting Friday morning and went into Saturday morning, so it was of long duration.  The only bad news was the trees came down and so did the power.   We were very lucky in comparison to others in the area as our power came back on Saturday.

So what does one do when they have to go on "device" withdrawal.  One puts on lots of warm clothes and gets out one of those unfinished projects.  Since it had gotten cooler here I had gotten busy again on my weaving.   I was fortunate enough several years ago to go to the Folk Art Center in Asheville on weaving day.  One of the Souths best artistic free-style weavers is Sandy Adair and she attended that day.   She explained how to build a hand loom, and even I was able to do it, and then it is a matter of drawing up the design and just practicing to get the tension correct.  It becomes especially textural due to the different sizes and types of yard used.  Since then I have done 3 pieces.  This particular piece, well, the idea came from a film that is at the visitors center.  I loved the idea of the really red sky that I decided will blend into purple, gray and navy.  It is funny that each time I work a weaving I learn  more and this time as you can see instead of working straight across, like you would with a traditional loom, I am working in sections and thinking that keeps me better so I don't produce so many gaps (where I skip a stitch and you see the weft (base string) come through)

Below is my gallery of some of the snow pictures.  I drew the line at making a snow man, the kids a couple houses away took care of that.   But I did shovel the driveway to try to minimize the ice issues.  Well, let me tell you I found some muscles I didn't know I had - that is really hard work.  But my reward was that I saw about 600 cranes fly low and pretty much over our house.  They are really in peak migration now going to North Florida.  I am sure that all the white on the ground confused them as it isn't supposed to be here.  They are so funny when they go into the kettle and just fly around until someone takes command and they form up the Vs and take off again.

Thanks for stopping by and have a super week.

Isn't it interesting it was so dark and dreary gray that the first pics almost look black and white, and the last is the next day after the clouds cleared out, just look at that blue sky!!