another tapestry enters the world

Yesterday I had the pleasure of snipping a few threads as Martha Bishop cut off her new tapestry. I met Martha when I was at Hambidge for the first stay this past summer. She's a musician and composer who was in residence there at the time. The first night, I admired the beautiful socks she was knitting and we started talking about yarn. At the end of the week, she was at my cutting off party for the fiddlehead tapestry and she was intrigued with the process. She was quite interested in the Brennan looms I had with me. We exchanged e-mails at the end of the week and usually that's that for contact with those who you meet in brief occasions like this.







BUT, not so with Martha! She has indeed become fascinated with tapestry and is eagerly pursuing it on her own. We've had a short tutorial here at my studio a month or so ago, but mostly she's been reading about tapestry from several of the current books (including Nancy Harvey, Carol Russell, Kathe Todd-Hooker and Kristen Glasbrooks). She's built a loom or two, has thoughts about more, and brought this lovely adaptation of a Glasbrooks sampler to the Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild open house yesterday so that I could share the cutting off.




I'm always so excited to see others become entranced with tapestry. Making tapestry gives me such pleasure that I'm happy to know that others are experiencing the joy of it, too. Oh, and in the top photo I'm holding a beautiful pair of handknit socks Martha brought me--and have them on my feet right now--thanks, Martha!