Delivery of a tapestry

This afternoon I passed along the tapestry that I've woven for my niece.  She was at work nearby so I took it to her.  We don't have a title for it yet so for now it will just be "Green Guy"... here she is with it:

Here's her painting from which the cartoon was designed.  It's gouache and about 9 x 12" in size:

The color in her painting is more greenish in what appears the yellowish areas of forehead, cheeks and neck, though. 


Onward to the next thing now!

Spring is coming!

These flowers were shining brightly in my studio yard today.  And am I ever happy to see them!  Trees are also beginning to bud.  There's a young gingko tree in the yard and last year there were several leaves at eye level that I kept under surveillance from bud to full leaf.  What fun to see the new growth begin.  And it's almost time for a new tapestry to begin.

The loose ends that have been bugging me for weeks now are almost tied up--tapestry finishing is completed for the most recent couple of pieces; the loom is cleared of remaining ends from the last tapestry; yarns from the last tapestries are put away and more has been gotten out in preparation for the next piece; tapestries are packaged and ready to ship on Monday to a couple of shows; and a new warp is almost ready for the beginning wefts to be entered.

Bring on the Spring!

Video and more

I was contacted in January by someone from a church in Atlanta about being filmed at my studio while weaving with the end goal for a short video that would fit their theme of Woven.  Over the next couple of weeks the videographer came to my studio and shot several hours of weaving and spinning.  Yesterday he sent a link to the video.   I was so surprised at how he'd edited all those hours into the short video that's linked here.  This other link takes you to the video stories the church has on their website.

Other studio work is getting done.  Mostly I'm in a "between" place now... that place that's between the ending of tapestries and the beginning of a new one.  I've gotten parts and pieces pulled together for the completion of Megan's tapestry (the green man) and the small stones & moss piece.  Parts and pieces are mounting frames and fabric, for instance.  I have those now and will be completing both of the pieces today, I hope.  Maybe I'll edit this post later with some photos of the finishing.

Ok... later now and I've finished the mounting boards for the two tapestries.  But I'm going to wait until tomorrow or the next day before stitching the tapestries onto these.  My hands take a beating when I'm stretching and stapling the fabric.  Here's the stones and moss double sett piece with a bit of the background fabric (dark green) showing.  It's 15" x 14.25" and I'm mounting it on a 16" square board.

Speaking of stones, tomorrow night is the book release of the next volume of The Stonepile Writers Anthology.  The book is published by the University Press of North Georgia and I'm happy to have a poem included--and also to have had one of my photos selected for the cover.  The stone steps in the photo are at the Lillian E. Smith Center and the photo is one of the hundreds (maybe thousands now) that I've made while in residence at the Center during the past several summers.  

Seems fitting to post the stones and moss tapestry along with the cover of the anthology since both were inspired by my times at the Center.

A little closer now

I really like the surface quality of the double sett.  Here's a close up of what's happening: