The lower left side is a series of lines extending from the solid roots. I'd hoped these would seem to be drawn lines. They were done with twining, using grays of slightly different values. The background "white" is a mix of three--white, natural and a very light creamy tan. It almost looks like a light color oatmeal.

The lower hem area is a single gray and narrower than the top hem.
I'm going to weave in every other warp, like Pat W. and Marti F. do. The warp is a #12/18 Finnish cotton seine twine and pretty hefty.

Here's a shot of the finished tapestry just after we cut it off the loom. It's on the floor so I can't get a very good photo of it yet. It's too heavy to hang until I get the ends attended to.

The upper 3" that's a different color (most noticable in the tree trunks) is hem so the design effect ends there. But I didn't want there too be too much difference in color or value to be seen at the top of the turn down so chose to do the hem in versions of the colors that were beneath (maybe this doesn't make any sense?!)

Thomas helped me cut off the roots tapestry last night. I'll take it to Campbell with me for finishing next week. I hope to get it photographed and submitted to the ACC Spotlight Southeast exhibit--deadline is soon. I'll post a photo later.

I finished the hem of the roots tapestry today and woven in scrap yarn to hold the last of the weft in place. I'm going to use Marti and Pat's method of weaving in every-other warp end, rather than doing the half-hitch I usually use at beginning and end. With 6 epi, as is this sett, the bulk of the warp is a problem as a hem is turned back. And, I want to use the method like on the recent commission piece for hanging this tapestry since it's pretty wide and will be a bit heavy.

I'm also getting ready for the Campbell tapestry class next week. Thomas glued together 7 copper pipe frames last night; I'd cut the copper pipe for the looms earlier in the week. I had 12 before that he'd made for me but several of those have "disappeared" and I have warps on two of them. I also wanted my assistant, Neville, to work her way through at least part of the sampler so she'll feel more comfortable in helping out next week.

I'd hoped to have a cutting off get-together for the roots piece but looks like I'll probably cut it off on my own. It's the largest piece I've done at the Stanton Storehouse studio, only completed one tiny one last fall and begun the cat tapestry for Thomas before this. I've woven a number of other things...my rag rugs for the bathroom, a couple of pillow tops in boundweave, Noel's tabard--but this is the first significant tapestry. I began it on January 12 and had a goal of finishing it in a couple of months. I guess I could say I almost made it--can't keep weaving through the time needed for a death in the family. I'm interested to see the finished piece off the loom.