Spring Cleaning

After a flurry of finishing projects it was time to get down to some cleaning up in the Fiber Studio and also the one in my home.

Red Dirt Days is hanging on the wall and Hands On is at the framers so for the past three days I have been working on creating some order in both my work spaces before the next projects begin.  Always at the back of my mind is the new loom that should be arriving soon.

After walking into my newly cleaned and organized studio my husband remarked, " Oh, I was beginning to think that you had sold your sewing machine."

The sewing area has been excavated and is ready for action.

Even the scary closet has been tamed after pulling out three large trash bags full of stuff. Does anyone need a vintage collection of plastic bags?

My prized air lift drafting table is ready to go and even those old  flat files are cleaned out and organized.

There are still a couple pockets of mess to work on such as my "office area"

and my art book shelves where I tend to to stuff office papers when I am too busy to walk to the end of the table where the office area is. ???

I am hoping that when I clean out that nest of old sketches at the top I will find the original drawing for the Mango Hunters which has somehow gone missing.

Now that I am cleaned up and better organized I am ready to start working on this Paintbox tapestry cartoon. The paintbox is quite small but my idea is to enlarge it by about 400% for the tapestry. This one should be fun to weave with all those squares of paint.

Here is my 2015 tapestry diary as of this afternoon. Somehow with the start of Spring my "Lonely Mountain" has turned into the "Sound of Music".

Here is a closer view of the beginning of April.

I have been thinking a lot about my trip to Weatherford, Ok to see Archie Brennan and Susan Martin Maffei. I am due to leave early Monday morning and so far I haven't done anything but think about it. Perhaps a day of down time before the packing begins is in order.