handspun

WEAVING WEATHER

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This is what’s on my loom just now: the third 94″ length for a blanket! It shifts pattern from long block to narrow and in the middle from dark coral to purple. What you cannot see in this photo is how it went from the warm colors in the lower part of the photo to what I am currently weaving. Magic!

I promise to post a photo of the blanket when the three lengths are finished and seamed.

My studio degrees are in ceramics and metal. I exhibited while still an undergrad and completed commissions. But after I graduated I never really went back to clay or gold. Instead, I went for fabric.

Important influences include Kaffe Fassett’s Glorious Color, Randall Darwall’s breathtaking silk weaving, and my grandfather’s wife Genevieve and my friend Toni who gave me looms.

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MORE, PLEASE

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I laid different shawls/scarves out on the bed yesterday afternoon, and then another row on the cedar chest (above), but already the light was too dim in this north and east facing bedroom. Ten stretch out full length over the bed, and another eight are folded at the foot. The photos are from this morning. Still not much light, but I’ve made no attempt to “correct” anything as the colors look accurate on my screen. (The greens suffered a bit.)

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