Saturday, June 27, 2009

weaving to new music

Sometime back I mentioned that I listen to music frequently as I weave. I have lots of old favorites but always enjoy finding something new. Last night my husband and I "discovered" Danny Schmidt who was performing in the round with Jonathan Byrd and Doug and Telisha Williams at The Crimson Moon here in town. So today I wove several inches while listening to new music--a couple of Danny Schmidt's CDs and an older one of Byrd's that I didn't have.



I've now rolled the tie-on ends around the bottom beam and out of the way. I've had the ties bundled up with rubber bands to keep them from being under foot when I'm using the treadles. Now, I'll leave the warp in place for quite a few inches before I advance it again. I can change the height of seat to keep my weaving level about the same. This is one of the things about this loom I like--that I can see a large area of the tapestry at one time.

Friday, June 26, 2009

"Conversations"

Southeast Fiber Educators Association exhibit is ending at Gray Gallery, ECU, Greenville, NC on June 30. It will be in the St. Andrews-Sewanee School Gallery, Sewanee, TN during August. There is an online PDF catalog of the exhibit at www.susanfecho.com.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

tapestry progress



Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Almost a month into this one now--got to step up the pace!

Started this piece...
and continued...
wove consistently for several days...
moving across and up a bit...
while other things began to distract...

THEN I took a break for a week for the wonderful bookbinding workshop at Shakerag.

Wove a bit Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and spent some time today getting my entry for the CHG exhibit together--found I had slides of the pieces I didn't remember I'd had done from digitals last year. So rather than spending half a day or more to get my digital files to CD and mailed I went with the old fashion approach of sending slides!

The Anderson Arts Center entry information, bio and statement are due before the 1st--will spend tomorrow on that. I hope to back into a rhythm of several hours of daily weaving for the upcoming few weeks before my next journeys out of town. Here's progress at this point--



My studio days usually begin around 11 once I've taken care of tasks at home. Then I work on assorted things here like these entry details followed by a trip to the post office, if necessary. Back to have lunch and then I begin to weave for most of the afternoon--usually stopping around 5:30 or so. Four hours of weaving daily is good for my hands at this point... can push for more but will feel the consequences a bit the next day.