current adventure

And more to come tomorrow!  I'll weave again soon, I hope.  But for now I'm absorbing all I can.

Blue Ridge Fiber Show donation tapestry is completed

I'll get around to doing a post with more photos from the wonderful Penland experience sometime soon.  However, I've been pounding the wefts since getting back home to finish off the tapestry I'm donating for the Blue Ridge Fiber Show raffle.  And it was delivered yesterday!  The tapestry is titled "Bad Seed-Kudzu":

Next loose end to tie up is the completion of the earlier kudzu tapestry, the one I'm calling "Life Force"--it was accepted into an exhibit to be held at the Bascom in Highlands, NC--got to deliver it next week.  I'll have two pieces in the exhibit, American Craft Today, October 2-December 18.  The juror was Carol Sauvion, the executive producer of the "Craft in America" PBS television series.

Fourth day at Penland

Even fewer words... it's 11:12 p.m.; I got to my room from the studio about 10:30 and have just resized photos to post. No more time or energy left to say much more. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words (and those thousand words, if I had them, would say this group is amazing!)

We started the day with a sharing of work by those in the class. We did this yesterday and again today--tomorrow we'll see work from others, as well.

Karen showed flame work pieces from a class she'd had at Penland a couple of weeks ago.

Andrea shared many amazing drawings. These are only a few that she finally laid out on to cover the table.

Joan had photos she wants to work from, watercolor paintings, images of completed tapestries and a copy of a travel journal with small illustrations for each day.

We've completed our fourth full class day now. Everyone is at a different point yet we're all experiencing these beautiful views around Penland. There was a quick thunderstorm this afternoon that caused some excitement since we saw a lighting strike in the near woods. Since we didn't hear later sirens perhaps the strike was at a tree in the woods and not somebody's home.

We've had rain almost every afternoon... this photos was from yesterday afternoon's storm shower.

So now here are random photos from the studio as I left tonight.

Third day at Penland, August 18, 2010--mostly photos

Just a few words below... lots of work done and more to come so I need to end the evening before midnight today. It's 11:25 p.m. now. The post will be made tomorrow since I don't have internet access here and am using Blogo to write the post to be published tomorow.

Audrey thinks about what's next...

Audrey shows where she is at the end of the day...

Barbara showed a few of her small pieces to the rest of the class and I think everyone was amazed as I was at the beauty of these small pieces.

Meredith demonstrates continuous warping for the class and then continues for the warp she's putting on for her next weaving. Raising the loom on boxes at the four corners is a handy way to warp by one's self.

Joan continues to work on her piece.

Karen sets up to begin a cartoon.

Karen, who's staying in a condo near here so she can have her dog with her, brought Mitzi to the studio tonight.

Kimberly works out more ideas in her sampling.

Meredith works on her hew warp. She's used the Churro wool for warp that I bought at Convergence.

And here at the third floor of Lily Loom House we'll all begin our next day together on the 19th of August.