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Lake Waccamaw, September 2021, Part II
The moon, the moon! We saw a bald eagle dive for a fish while we were on the boat. I finished off the sakiori and washcloths that were warped up on the rigid heddle loom toward the end of that...
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Boxing Day post
What are you supposed to do on Boxing Day again? Knock out your family and friends? Just so you know, I did get some creative stuff done yesterday. The photo of progress on my tapestry refused to turn...
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Sunday coffee pot post
Usually I write a post on New Year’s Day of what I hope will happen in the coming year, but I just couldn’t do it yesterday. If I have to choose a motto for 2022, it will be “I guess we’ll see.” I...
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Tapestry Weavers South Retreat 2022
Playing a bit of catch-up here. I was in Elkin, NC at the Yadkin Valley Fiber Center for the 2022 Tapestry Weavers South retreat a couple of weekends ago. I drove up there on Saturday morning, stayed...
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Weaving update
Finally cut two tapestries off their looms. First up, the “O” postcard tapestry for the Tapestry Weavers South collaborative project for the “Follow The Thread” exhibition, scheduled in January 2023 at...
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Saturday Morning Coffee Pot Post
Oh my god, I can’t believe that WordPress just ate my entire post without saving it. I really have to reconsider using this platform. I’m paying for it and it can be such a pain. Maybe I will have to...
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Saturday morning coffee pot post
This week I took a free online class with Gwen Hedley through textileartist.org – actually, I’m still taking it because I got started late. It’s a short class, designed to get you going with some...
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Stitching
Half of Sandy’s thyroid was removed and the nodules tested. It is cancer-free. What a relief! He was in a fairly jolly mood yesterday prior to leaving the hospital – he had to spend a night there....
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Sunday evening Smiddicks Post
Can’t say that I’ve gotten much accomplished this weekend other than laundry. I looked over this stitching project and realized that life is too short to be compulsive about doing all this when I’m...
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Sunday morning coffee pot post
The latest stitchery: I’m really enjoying stitching in this section. This piece has changed in my mind from purely abstract to ruminations about paths, choices, obstacles, and flow. What we do to...
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Wednesday Waiting for Ted Lasso Post
I went to Asheville with my sister this past weekend to the Tapestry Weavers South get-together at the Folk Art Center exhibition of “Follow the Thread.” She drove from Lake Waccamaw, we had lunch at...
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Birds, Bugs, and Butterflies
I’m doing a catch-up post about the tapestry design workshop and Tapestry Weavers South retreat that I attended the first week in June. MJ Lord taught the workshop, “Birds, Bugs, and Butterflies,”...
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“Wrapping Wild” at John C. Campbell Folk School
Hello friends! I am back from a rejuvenating six days (including travel) at John C. Campbell Folk School, where I finally snagged a spot in a class I’ve wanted to take for a long, long time –...
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“Wrapping Wild” at John C. Campbell Folk School, part 2
Our class created a huge diversity of animals, including some that came into new existence. Some photos are not great – I had planned to take better ones but time got away from me and there was a crowd...
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John C. Campbell Folk School, part 3
Spending a week at John C. Campbell is healing for my spirit. From the time I walk into that weathered door in Keith House to check in, I feel the calm begin to take hold of my stressed out body. This...
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Saturday morning coffee pot post
Hopefully I won’t forget to click publish on this one like I forgot last time. There’s a lot going on and not much interesting to write about, not that I feel like I can share publicly anyway. I...
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A Fiber Retreat at Wildacres
Edwina Bringle, one of the leading fiber artists in our region, invited several fiber artists to play with her at Wildacres Retreat near Little Switzerland, NC in mid-September. Spending almost a week...
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100 Days of Stitch Meditation
^Today’s stitch meditation Here’s another path I followed away from my funk into creative mode. This time of year a lot of artists do some kind of 100 day “challenge.” I’ve participated in one of...
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