September Tapestry Diary and Class Samples

 The September Tapestry Diary is complete and I have started weaving October.  Here is a picture that shows through the end of September.  This month I will be continuing on the same warp for October and hope to be on this same warp through the end of the year.

On September 29th I taught an Affinity Bracelet Class at the Dragonmoon Tea House in Tulsa.  I had eight in the class and we had a full day of weaving on our Mirrix Looms and a wonderful lunch. I look forward to showing some pictures from the class and the finished bracelets soon. For now I thought I would share some of the samples I brought and the variations we tried.

A detail of a landscape from the diary.

This first bracelet has hand painted silk warp from Claudia Chase at Mirrix with a second silk weft , bead embellishment and beaded edge.










The one to the right has the same seed beads with Tila and Magatama beads and a hand dyed pearl cotton warp.











This bracelet has a handspun silk warp, with metal circle beads, seed beads and delicas . It also has the beaded edge.






The next one to the right is a simple fiber and matte seed bead with a leather closure and silk warp.













Here is a Ymmyarns silk and  hand dyed pearl cotton with brass seed beads and crystals strung on the weft.  It has a ribbon clamp closure.






On the right is one with bugle beads and a picot edging with a button closure.

Here is a detail of another bracelet with the Picot edging in progress. This one also has copper beads and crystals.

This shows the Peyote button on the bracelet above.

Finally, a picture of the buttonhole on the above bracelet .





I can't wait to show some of the finished bracelets from the class and a couple more samples of my own that are in progress.  I have another class I will be teaching coming up on October 20th right after I get back from taking a class with Kathe Todd Hooker in Colorado.  There should be plenty to write about!