Since it is cooling off here I am thinking about winter and doing things I can't do in the summer and weaving is one of those things (I use a lap loom and it is quite hot - great for sitting by the fireplace though)
Several years ago we were at the Folk Art Center for Fiber Day. One of the weavers, Sandy Adair, kindly showed me how to build a lap loom and gave me some basic equipment instruction and, reading a couple of books later, I was off and running. I designed this piece (of course only read the basics and didn't do any practice on the simple designs) but jumped right in and changed thread colors like I knew what I was doing - isn't ignorance bliss??
Just so you know what I think you are looking at.... you are standing on a mountain ledge looking at the sun rise over the valley below, and congratulations if you came close and guessed any of that. The funny things in the foreground?? well, I was trying to get the different rock planes - and yes if you want to believe there is a little snow you can but I was really going after highlights.
Anyway, Sandy Adair, the professional artist weaver, does these spectacularly beautiful pictures of mountain scenes and I strive to make something that could come close to what she does. This is an example from her website and is definitely not something I have done, but oh I would love to.
I have only completed this one weaving as it takes two passes going each direction to complete one row, so yes it is pretty slow and I get easily bored. I have another weaving in process of Bear Lake in Utah, it has the most unique and beautiful color - I bought yarn as close to the water color as I could find, Wasatch mountins are in the background and I only have the sky work left so I want to get it completed this winter, and maybe if I am really proactive design and start another.
Feel free to tell me what you like and don't like as I am learning the
is art form.
Several years ago we were at the Folk Art Center for Fiber Day. One of the weavers, Sandy Adair, kindly showed me how to build a lap loom and gave me some basic equipment instruction and, reading a couple of books later, I was off and running. I designed this piece (of course only read the basics and didn't do any practice on the simple designs) but jumped right in and changed thread colors like I knew what I was doing - isn't ignorance bliss??
Just so you know what I think you are looking at.... you are standing on a mountain ledge looking at the sun rise over the valley below, and congratulations if you came close and guessed any of that. The funny things in the foreground?? well, I was trying to get the different rock planes - and yes if you want to believe there is a little snow you can but I was really going after highlights.
Anyway, Sandy Adair, the professional artist weaver, does these spectacularly beautiful pictures of mountain scenes and I strive to make something that could come close to what she does. This is an example from her website and is definitely not something I have done, but oh I would love to.
I have only completed this one weaving as it takes two passes going each direction to complete one row, so yes it is pretty slow and I get easily bored. I have another weaving in process of Bear Lake in Utah, it has the most unique and beautiful color - I bought yarn as close to the water color as I could find, Wasatch mountins are in the background and I only have the sky work left so I want to get it completed this winter, and maybe if I am really proactive design and start another.
Feel free to tell me what you like and don't like as I am learning the
is art form.
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Have nice Sunday!
From now on you have a new (dutch) nickname:
Crea Bea speak out as: kreeja beeja
Crea stands for creativ and Bea is just a name for the ryme:)
What are you going to do with the ones ready? Will they be framed?
I wish you a lot of fun weaving and wish you and Paul a very nice sunday! xx :)
creativ = creative
thaught = thought
ryme = rhyme
:)