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and a flower, always a touch of beauty
Wednesday, August 27, our last day at Cannon Beach… The famous Haystack Rock. Not nearly as crowded as an August day on our beaches here. At Wave Crest Inn Shirley’s little tapestry Flowers around...
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98% Water tapestry progress
Almost there. Maybe by the end of September? I had forgotten about my community garden plot. It was bursting with flowers and the red amaranth had gone to seed. The green cotton is still struggling...
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Latest progress on 98% Water
It’s slow going, mainly because my life and house is messy right now, but I only have about three inches left to weave on “98% Water.” My new-to-me Shannock tapestry loom is still sealed in the...
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Thanksgiving, 2014
This year I spent Thanksgiving weaving on my tapestry at home and Sandy and I ate dinner with the Martin/Baker family, a bunch of hooligans beyond compare, just my kind of people. Great cooks too....
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Visual journal, December 31, 2014: The Cutting Off
I finished “98% Tapestry” well before midnight and my friend Susanne was there to photograph the cutting off. Now I’m working on the Phillipine edge on the hems. I’m still unsure how I’ll mount it.
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Hammock View
I’m wondering if I should rename it 50 Shades of Green. This will be the most complex tapestry I’ve ever done. I’m so excited about the challenge! This rascal is why I have to keep my loom in my closet.
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“Hammock View” Progress
Here it is just before going into the weekend, when I hope to spend hours on it. Did I have a time with getting this correctly warped! It would have been fine the way it was, I think. I decided to...
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Little urban landscape tapestry
Playing with fine lines in wee urban landscape tapestry on my little frame loom. This one is 4.5 x 4.5 inches and is designed from a photo that I took out of a classroom window at Fort Worden in Port...
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Hammock View progress
I weave on the front porch as much as possible to take advantage of the natural light and the pleasant weather now. Here’s the progress on “Hammock View.” About half of this will be turned over for a...
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Tapestry Retreat with Susan Maffei and Archie Brennan at Pam’s cabin, Pt. 1
Top: View from my bedroom window. Click to play sound. View of the surf and trees below the house. On Friday morning I got up to find Jeanne sitting at the table drawing with watercolor pencils and...
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Tapestry Retreat with Archie, Susan, and Pam, Day Two
Morning view from my bedroom window Well, now I am really, really behind. I have another trip to blog and I hadn’t finished the April trip yet. AND, I go back to Pam’s cabin for another tapestry...
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Tapestry Retreat with Archie, Susan, and Pam, Day Three
Here’s the finished tapestry. I began another from the same design but I’m weaving it from the other way so that I have to use different, more difficult techniques. It will have a rosy pink background...
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Tapestry updates
Cathedral First, here is the progress with the big bald cypress tapestry, which I had been calling “Hammock View” but have renamed “Cathedral.” I’m not working on it as much right now since the...
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Fort Clatsop, Lewis and Clark National Park
On Monday Pam ran errands so we hopped into our rented baby blue Beetle and headed north up the Pacific Coast Highway to Astoria. I like to visit any national parks nearby when I travel so we went to...
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Site Specific Weaving class at Arrowmont
At the beginning of August I spent a week at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in a class taught by Erika Hanson about nomadic weaving systems. The original idea was that the class would do outdoor...
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Sunday Morning Coffee Pot Post
First, THIS article is helping me get back on track after a rather hellish month: 12 Little Known Laws of Mindfulness That Will Change Your Life. I came back from Arrowmont with steadily worsening...
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Labor Day weekend at Lake Waccamaw
Labor Day weekend was a mix of hard work and fun. Sandy and I met my sister, brother, and brother-in-law at Mama’s house in Marietta with a rented UHaul van. We filled it up with two bedframes, a set...
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Back to Family and Denver Area
(This post is the final one about a trip to Colorado/Utah we took in September, written two months later, because LIFE.) After crashing big-time at my Awesome Aunt’s apartment on Thursday night, we...
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