Saturday, January 1, 2022

Happy New Year! May it be better than the last two

 

I finished weaving my 2021 tapestry diary yesterday and cut it from the loom in late afternoon. It was a labor of love and I'm grateful that I was able to continue weaving on it following the surgery in August and many days of recovery once I got home.

I decided to show some of those missed days of weaving by adding alternating squares of gray and white across the width of the tapestry. In early September I wove the 18 days I'd missed. Those began when I was taken to the emergency room on August 12, and continued with the week's stay at the hospital, followed by days of recovery at home before I was able to weave again for several minutes at a time.

If you notice, there are only eleven sections woven as a monthly entries... that's because I didn't feel like designing and weaving a leaf in August. And the leaf for September was sort of small; recovery was a bit slow.

But in the last couple of months of 2021 I've felt mostly fine. I felt a sense of accomplishment with the ending of the weaving yesterday. I have my new warp for on the loom and have started by weaving one square for the first day of the first month of the new year! Now to select a theme for the monthly parts of the diary and get the January one underway in a few days.


Here's to a healthy and happy and better 2022 for one and all!

2 comments:

  1. so glad to see you have recovered and are back weaving. Beautiful diary.

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  2. Glad to see you have recovered and have returned to weaving. Best wishes for health and happiness this year. Beautiful diary.

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