Making Progress

Well, I have been able to make some progress in the last few days.  I am very pleased with the effects I am getting.  The tapestry is being woven at 6 epi.  I am using 5 strands Appleton crewel wool yarn which is allowing me to mix and blend colors. 

I will be taking a break from tapestry for a while to pack up and head for home in Cherry Hill, NJ.  We have had an enjoyable winter in Florida, but I am anxious to get back and resume my “other life” which includes my children and grandchildren as well as weekly meetings with my Tapestry and Weaving groups.  I will write more about these activities in later posts. 

Becoming Unblocked

It has been quite some time since I last posted.  I had begun work on the Polychrome Mountain tapestry with such enthusiasm and was merrily weaving away when I discovered that I needed to unweave a section.  After doing that I was in a quandary as to how to progress with the weaving to get the effect that I wanted.  So day after day and week after week went by without even touching any yarn.  Two weeks ago I had brunch with my friend and tapestry teacher, Rita Landau, who talked me through the problem spot and now I am back at the loom and happily weaving again.  Thanks Rita.

Before unweaving section on right………….

After unweaving………….

And finally weaving again

My "New iPad"

I am the lucky owner of a new IPad. Actually this is my first iPad. There are so many things that I can do with this device. I am still at the very beginners stage. But there is nothing like jumping into the fire full speed ahead. So today I took some pictures at my weekly tapestry group meeting. I was amazed at the quality of the photos. Then I decided to get the blogger app. I am soooo into apps!! That being accomplished the next step is to publish these photos on my blog. Which incidentally has sadly been neglected for almost 2 1/2 years. So here is a glimpse of today's progress.




Betsy at work on her tapestry of shrimp on a platter.



Deena's beautiful flower. I love the colors!!!!




Mary's abstract of the ark of a tree.





My work in progress on a tapestry of my granddaughters.

So now that I have successfully managed to get these pictures on this blog page let's see if I can publish it. Wish me luck!!!!!

Location:

What's next.............

In July of 2006 my husband and I went to Alaska. One of the highlights of our trip was a bus tour of Denali National Park. The park is abundant with wildlife - black and grizzly bears, moose, caribou, Dall sheep wolves, fox and birds. The park is also the home of Mt. McKinley. But the most outstanding memory for me is Polychrome Mountain. I was awed by the shape and colors present in the natural rock. They were even more vivid in the pictures I took with my husband's new digital camera at 10x magnification. My immediate reaction was, "I must weave this."

I came home and played with the picture in PhotoShop Elements enhancing the hue and saturation, but as a new tapestry weaver the project seemed too difficult for me to undertake. So I put that aside and worked on other projects.

In June of 2008 I attended HGA Convergence in Tampa, Florida. I stayed on for the American Tapestry Alliance Retreat and took a 3 day workshop with tapestry artist Joan Baxter. The workshop was titled Designing From a Landscape. It was the perfect opportunity to begin designing and working on this tapestry.