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I loved taking pics in NYC!!

This Pic is of the Cloisters (where the Unicorn Tapestries are) from the trail below. : )

I am experiencing some technical difficulties that are preventing me from being wonderfully creative with my posts. I am, however, creating, ...and so are my fibre arts kids. : ) I promise that I will have some fabulously inspiring posts with pics of art soon!!!

Love, live, and love some more. : )

xx

FLoW

Ok , so I promised to post my recent tapestry weaving, and here it is!

This is the drawing I did, which is called a "cartoon" (above).

Here is the weaving. I had been thinking about life, balance, flow, and stuff like that, so I wove about flow. It was a meditative piece about all these things. It helped me to focus on the idea of how to achieve all these good things into my life. It was relaxing to weave it, when I wasn't struggling with all the "hows" of learning to weave it.

This is the second warp I have ever worked on in tapestry. I am weaving on a tapestry copper pipe loom designed by Archie Brennan of New York. This first section of the warp is actually two pieces, and the other piece I will describe when the time becomes right. ; )

I LOVE the checkerboard pattern which is two passes of one color, and one pass of the other. Remember in tapestry it takes two passes to cover each warp thread! One pass covers every other warp thread, thus covering 1/2 of the warps. : )

Here is the loom with the cartoon attached. I have a lot of warp left to weave on here, so another section will be woven soon (I hope : ).

Here is the back of the FloW weaving. On this piece, I wove from the back of the loom for the first time. It was easier in a sense than weaving from the front, but a mirror would be helpful so one could see the right side of the weaving... During the weaving I invented a way to suspend the pipe loom so I could flip it from front to back easily. Tapestry weaving is back breaking work, and very time consuming (some of the famous large tapestries took a team of weavers years to weave!).

I hope for love in the weaving of your life.

Oh, CAN a Da

Home is where the heart is, they say. (and these are home pics from my travels to New York and Los Angeles.) I had a most memorable day last week, Thursday... ...after almost 40 years, to the day, since I emigrated to Canada, ...when I took the oath of Canadian Citizenship. Wow, that was huge for me!

...I found myself very emotional, and I couldn't help myself as I started to cry, hand up to affirm the new oath, with 65 other new Canadians from 38 different countries, as I recalled the great pride my mother had expressed as she had done the same thing approximately 39 years ago. I wished my mom could have been there with me. Best I can do is hold her in my heart, with all my heart.