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A small video of my ‘Woven Women’ tapestries
Yesterday, a dear friend helped me to hang some of my ‘Woven Women’ tapestries at the Blue Chair Cafe in Edmonton AB.
They will be hanging at the Blue Chair for the months of September and October 2014.
I took a small video after the show was hung….
Tapestry diary June 2014 -Doorway
Having committed to weaving a tapestry diary for the year of 2014 has been a wonderful experience for me.
As I have been experimenting with my diary pieces, I have come to a huge ‘aha’ about the ways that I love to work.
I have found that weaving tiny tapestries, 3 inches/7.5 cm by 5 inches/12.5 cm truly makes my heart sing.
Here is my completed tiny tapestry for the month of June:
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I wanted to show the small size of the tapestry by placing it in the context of my studio, and I inadvertently included a little self revelation that made me flinch when I first saw the pic.
My little rock with ‘good enough’ in chalk….. not feeling good enough has been a life long struggle for me, and it’s rather ouchie to have my little ‘good enough’ rock in the photo.
BUT, I figured that I am not alone in this struggle, so, what the heck…. if it feels too uncomfortable to leave the pic as is, I can take it down… but… maybe it could be helpful to someone else who navigates that particular minefield, too, so, I’ll leave it for now.
To be honest, the weaving in this piece does have aspects that are not good enough.
But, as I have lived with now for the few days since I finished it, I have decided that there’s more to it than meets the eye, and I like how I have had ‘aha’ moments with it- finding new meaning in it.
One of the rules of the tapestry diary that I have made for myself is that I have to ask myself:
Where am I right now? What am I working on?
And, then do a drawing that feels like it has possibilities to show me more about that.
When I began my June drawing, I was deeply grieving the death of one of our beloved little dogs, as well as several other losses.
It made me really aware of how those we love do come and go, and how tender and precious life is…. and that’s what came up in the drawing and the weaving.
On the other hand, my daughter in law thinks it looks like something out of Star Trek or sci fi.
LOL!!!! That works for me! I say: If you see something in it that I didn’t, then, YAY! that’s a win.
….. and that’s good enough for me…..
🙂
How to weave a boho or hobo bag on the triangle loom
My daughter sewed me a couple of gorgeous triangle shaped bags that got me thinking….
‘Hmmmm…. could I weave a triangular shaped bag?’
And, the answer was so obvious that it was a palm to forehead moment!
Duh! Use the triangle loom!
So, I did, and here’s the result:
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The easiest bag ~ever~!!!!
These bags are so comfortable to use- they hug your body!
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I designed it so there are 2 pockets on the outside for glasses, cellphone, business cards, lip gloss etc
I wove mine on the 3 foot configuration of my Dewberry Ridge Triangle loom LINK to their site.
But, you could weave it on the 6 foot configuration, too, if you prefer.
Demonstrating with the full size triangles was too hard to get into the screen of the video camera,
so I used triangles woven on my 14 inch triangle:
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The finished bag is about 24 inches from the tip of the handle to the base point and about 18 inches across:
It’s such a fun and easy bag to make, I know that I am going to be making a whole lot more of them!
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Here’s the video tutorial on how to make them:
Soumak Pouch Weave Along- Part 5- Black and white checkerboard motifs
Part 5 of the Soumak Pouch Weave Along is a step by step series of photos that I took while we were on holidays at the end of August.
I adapted the pattern to have checkerboard borders and wove the Soumak pouch on my Mirrix Mini (5 inches wide… perfect traveling loom).
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Here’s how the pattern looks with the black and white checked borders:
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If I had wanted to make the pouch wider, I could have added ‘s’ hooks to the side and just added the checked squares to the pattern.
Adding 2 more ‘s’ hooks at the top and bottom on both sides would have added one inch (2.5 cm) to the width of the pouch.
I wanted the squares to be symmetrical off a central square, so I had to do some fancy footwork with working out the size of the squares.
Here’s what I decided: Here’s the graph for the lower border of the pouch:
Each square represents one strand of warp:
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And now… to the step by step photos: Photographed in Jasper Alberta Canada
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And, here is the finished pouch: Woven in Lamb’s Pride yarn from the Mirrix kit:
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The embroidery is worked with Kreinik threads.
There is an amethyst bead on the center of the back of the pouch.
Happy Weaving! 🙂
Woven Whimsical Cats
One of the joys of self publishing patterns is that I get to talk about them as soon as I finish them. (Not allowed to do that with commissioned projects! It’s up to the editors to decide when the word goes out on those).
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My most recent self published pattern is for the Woven Whimsical Cats.
You can order the pdf pattern from my website: Link
They have been so much fun to design.
I started the designing process for them last February.
I went through several variations of them before I settled on the two versions that are in the pattern.
There’s the sitting Whimsical Cats, who are infinitely poseable (and can be convinced to wear shoes and play musical instruments, too!)
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They have distinctly, ‘Who me?!’ expressions of feline innocence, which probably means that they are up to all manner of mischief!
Their ‘Laying Down’ cousins:
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are lovely to rest your wrist on when playing with the computer mouse.
Of course, they might take a swipe at the mouse, but that’s to be expected, isn’t it?
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They were woven on the lovely potholder loom from Dewberry Ridge looms:http://www.dewberryridge.com/products/potholder-loom
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The yarn is art yarn, handspun by the delightful Nancy Nagle of Nangellini: www.nangellini.com
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When I was designing and weaving the Whimsical Woven cats, I was remembering all the wonderful cats who have graced my life with their marvelous ways.
So, here’s to our Feline Friends! with love and thanks for all the blessings! 😀
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