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Dyepot and bundle experiments
My new studio. The lighting needs serious improvement, but other than that it is a much better use for this space. The aluminum foil draped over my weaving keeps the cats away from it – they are...
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Old Norwegian weaving films on O Tecelão
I have not been able to figure out how to save these films or embed them here without going to a Brazilian Facebook site called # O Tecelão which is dedicated to weaving. I find these fascinating and...
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Labor Play Day
I’m busy busy busy with my Ceramics III class, but I have taken a little time to do some natural dyeing. Last Sunday, Sandy and I found a vacant lot with lots of goldenrod blooming. I tore blisters on...
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September was a wonderfully busy month. The first half was consumed by the planning and anticipation of seeing my relatives at our family reunion and my mother’s 90th birthday party. My aunt and first...
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Broomsedge bundle dyeing
As much as I realized that I need to work on my ceramics class, I knew that it would be dumb to build a scroll box or stand without even beginning to make the scroll, so I devoted yesterday to dyeing...
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Sunday morning coffee pot post
I’m making an effort to blog regularly again, which is part of the reason for the daily visual journal. l;;3w’;/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewe (That was Pablo Blondie’s contribution....
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Visual journal, November 22, 2013
Stitching on my animal scroll for the farm vessel project during lunch. In the front yard.
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Visual journal, December 10, 2013
Stitching little bird tracks on the farm scroll. I dye my silk thread by wrapping it around fabric bundles. The yellow thread was dyed with broomsedge, and the brown thread was dyed with black walnut...
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Visual journal, December 13, 2013
Working on this project that is over two years old now. Frosty yarrow and fallen leaves.
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Visual journal, December 18, 2013
In love with cloth weaving and Jude Hill’s online courses again. On my walk home from work.
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Visual journal, December 21, 2013
Just a little bit more stitching and I’m done with the Magic Cloth that I started over two years ago! I just finished cleaning most of the junk and leaves off my front porch, went inside, came back...
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Visual journal, January 7, 2014
I’ve taken some of Jude Hill’s archived online classes and right now I’m taking her Contemporary Boro I class. Online classes usually don’t do much for me. I get tempted to pay for them and then I...
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Visual journal, January 8, 2014
This day was very much like the previous day, but less brutal temperatures. I enjoy stitching my cloth weavings very much.
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Visual journal, January 10, 2014
I expect that by the end of the year I may have taken a photo of every crook and cranny in my office – here is my collection of oak leaves in a ceramic piece I made about 10 years ago. Making lots of...
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Visual journal, January 14, 2014
Ready for spring, sick of the mud On my street – my house is the green one on the right.
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Visual journal, January 17, 2013
More squares of mostly denim. I recognize a couple of my favorite jeans here. My plan is to make a sturdy blanket for outdoor lounging. Sandy and I went downtown to Scuppernong Books, which entranced...
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Visual journal, January 18, 2014
Today has been all about listening to “A Thousand Splendid Suns” on CD, watching “Nurse Jackie” on DVD, and soaking up the warmth of the wood stove while stitching. I pulled out this half-finished...
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Visual journal, January 20, 2014
I worked in the Back Forty putting down cardboard in anticipation of the load of mulch Sandy plans to get from the landfill, and pulled up some vines and weeds. But did I take photos? No. So, here’s...
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Visual journal, January 25, 2014
This weaving has some preciousness – strips from my father’s flannel shirt, my husband’s linen shirt, my favorite pajama pants that I finally wore out. My mother gave me a lot of her old quilting...
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