The Arrowmont prep stack grows taller--and wider

Today was filled with more preparation for the Arrowmont class.  Here's just a bit of what I did today-finished a handout and had it printed; worked on a Powerpoint of tapestry diary works (mine and others); got loom boxes out of storage and placed by the door (Archie Brennan style pipe looms); selected a few books and other publications to take; chose warp tubes of different sizes of seine twine and put those in a bin; packaged bobbins for students to borrow; met up with John Moss so he could deliver a few of his new brass-tipped bobbins for students to purchase, if they want to... let's see, I also had a morning walk, breakfast, wove my tapestry diary bit for the day, photographed that for the Powerpoint presentation, had lunch, had a snack while I reviewed my handout... and now I'm ready to go home and watch Jeopardy!  

More to do tomorrow--most importantly, getting the yarns out and packed in the black suitcase that's sitting there waiting for it!  Then I'll be ready to head out on this new adventure in teaching.

Progress in several direction...

I see that it was a week ago when I posted last.  Since then, we've had a four day trip to LA (Lower Alabama) for a surprise birthday party for a family member.  This week I've been working on yet more samplers for the upcoming class at Arrowmont.  I've gone through the sampler bins and selected the ones that will illustrate things to do with the focus for the class.  I decided to once again do some color gradation work and so have spent a couple of days with that.  Here's the beginning of the stack of things I'll be taking with me--I always take more than I need.  But I always think, "Someone might like to see that book..." or "I'll have several different seine twine options for warp with me..." and "Let's see, since Arrowmont doesn't have a yarn stock in the weaving room like John Campbell, I'll need to take more yarn options..."

There's more to do for the class prep but I wanted to weave on the fiddlehead tapestry today for a few hours.  I've just finished the second of the five spirals now:

So... that's it for today and blogger!  Back to prep work.

Some progress...

... tricky bits here with the spirals of the fiddleheads.  I have to weave around them about 1/2 way and then fill in.  So I'm weaving here and there in different parts of the tapestry.   I'm also making a transition to lighter background area throughout the left side and to the top at the left.  That's taking a bit of time... weave it in, see how the value looks, take it back out, try something else, take it back out.  That's how much of the morning was spent above the lowest left fiddlehead.

I advanced the warp a couple of days ago and now I can't see the bottom area--but I can see the top part of the cartoon.

So here it is at the end of today, Wednesday.  And here's where it will probably stay until after the trip to Arrowmont to teach.  I've got preparation work to do for the class and will be using most of the next several days with that.  I'm looking forward to the class, by the way!

First fiddlehead has grown now...

... and four more to go.  My goal was to have the lowest fiddlehead woven this week and so it is.  I won't have time to do much more today.  But at least this one is completed.   Here's the detail from the painting that's my reference and the interpretation in tapestry form.

I'll move the whole thing down tomorrow so this will be the last of the whole tapestry that I'll be seeing for some time.  One of the good things about documenting it along the way is that I can scroll back through the photos to see where I've been; that helps with consistency of image, I think.