Friday, November 2, 2012

October Tapestry Diary, 2012

 The October portion of this years tapestry diary is complete!  It has been a very full month and I was happy to finish on time.  When I returned from Colorado I felt that I needed to weave Pikes Peak and so I got a little behind on my days and had to catch up towards the end but I am so glad to have a woven reminder of my trip. We actually drove to the summit on the 15th and so when I returned home I wove that scene before I continued with the diary. There is a detail below.

Also this month I taught a fiber /bead bracelet class and on the 27th went to a Halloween Tea at the Dragonmoon Tea House . Two friends and I dressed as witches so I decided to weave a witches hat for that event.


Here is the detail of Pikes Peak and a great reminder of the trip.
Lately when I weave my landscapes I have been thinking about how directional lines in a drawing help so much to define and invigorate areas of the landscape and so I have been experimenting with this approach in my weaving as well.





Finally I am putting another photo of the sampler from the workshop I took with Kathe Todd Hooker hosted by the Pikes Peak Weavers Guild in Colorado Springs. I have to admit that I was thinking of my diary as I was weaving the sampler and it felt like my diary away from home at the time.

My plan for November has yet to evolve but if I just keep weaving I am sure I will go somewhere with it.




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  1. mleeNovember 5, 2012 at 8:36 AM

    Janette,
    Your Pikes Peak landscape is breathtaking! I'm amazed with how much detail can be captured in a small tapestry and astonished to see the many possibilities of tapestry technique in rendering a unified image. I'm trying to learn how to begin to interpret images in the natural world in tapestry. Maybe that is too ambitious for a beginner but I hope the desire to achieve a certain effect will drive my exploration of tapestry technique. Please keep us posted about your evolving diary!!

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    1. UnknownNovember 5, 2012 at 1:09 PM

      Thank you so much! There are so many different approaches that are possible. One of the things I do with my diary is to experiment with different techniques and lately I have trying out weaving pictorial ideas with out a cartoon. Most of the little landscapes in the diaries started as sketches and I have referred to the sketches as I weave but have not used them behind the warps as a cartoon. For the Pikes Peak I really went out on a limb and tried just weaving my idea without making a sketch first. I would not try this ordinarily and probably would want more control over most finished work but I value the diary as a place to try things like that.

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  2. mleeNovember 5, 2012 at 8:38 AM

    Janette,
    I'm sorry, I forgot to ask in my previous comment whether you use cartoons for the landscapes in your tapestry diary.
    Thanks!

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