Pulling it Together

For the show that is...

I Have Been Busy and I Have Good Help

I have been getting ready for the Block Street Art Sale this year and am busily weaving up some rugs for the event. Mirabel has been helping me with the final handwork such as tying knots. Here she is helping and there is a shot of the rug without her. Here are several of the new ones for the sale. I am putting in my wool runners, too hoping someone will just have to take one home...

Really Good News

I received quite a nice surprise this past Saturday. I had entered three of my weavings in the Ozark Folkways Fiberfest event which took place this past weekend. It was the third year for the event. Ozark Folkways has a long colorful history with NW Arkansas and the new director Rebecca Buchanan has been doing a top notch effort of promoting Ozark Folkways to the world. ozarkfolkways.org

I was fortunate to take some honors in the weaving category, 1st for Ozark Autumn and 2nd for one of my Sunflower series looper rugs as well as Grand Champion or Best of Show for my weaving Ozark Autumn. Pretty cool, huh?

Long Time Gone

Just trying to put a little bit of what I am doing now out there...

Fiber and Flowers and more flowers...

Early morning inspiration here in Wedington Woods...The gardens are exploding and these lovelies greeted me this early summer feeling morning. Thunder rumbling somewhere in the background I couldn't get the song Tapestry by Carole King out of my head..."My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view, a wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold, a tapestry to feel and see impossible to hold." That kind of sums it all up doesn't it? Things are constantly moving, changing and shifting and yet when we give up the idea of holding on to it it becomes even a greater gift than we could have ever imagined.

More fiber Less Flowers...maybe

Hard to imagine from these photos what this is going to look like. The green is so unusual in this it was a natural gray, dyed blue then over-dyed with a sage color. There is no way quite to describe how the colors kind of shimmy depending on what light you have on it. The end result will be a nice surprise.

It's about time I put something up here...

New weaving, cats weaving or guarding weaving and of course a lily...