It is delightful to be back on
schedule with a weekly blog—things have settled down to the usual weekly hectic
pace. I have been working on my
next commission piece and I now have the background woven. By the end of today I should have the
piece stretched out in its frame.
My next step is to do the dimensional crochet to build the grassy
shoreline forward such that there is a place to plant the willow tree and the
bench that are the focal points of the piece.
I love to weave, so that’s taken
up a lot of time, but I’ve had to split my time between weaving and making more
Re-Shirts. Last week I cut out the
pattern for 48 new Re-shirts! I focused
the fall/winter colors that are strong and bold. I tried to avoid pastel colors, but a few fabrics just
demanded to be used. I am planning
to do the Bloom showcase in February, so those colors might be more appropriate
as spring approaches. It was a lot
of fun breaking open the boxes of fabrics I’ve been collecting over the past
several months.
It’s a lot like
opening Christmas presents with all the colors and textures. I then get to piece them together to
see who works with whom. I began
with eight bins of fabrics that have had a previous life and now I’m down to four. So many of the fabrics have history,
such as the Re-Shirt I made from Rosemary P. Miller’s curtains. I even cut up my first official art
fair dress, which was made of flax.
The back-story here is that I always have a collection of four or five
nice dresses that I wear at shows.
The lower parts of dresses are usually in really good shape as the tops
wear out, so I want them to live in a Re-Shirt. I even have some shirts that Tommie has outgrown and should
be hand-me-downs, but the colors and patterns don’t match Jacob’s
aesthetic. And of course I’m
permitted to remove shirts from Jacob’s wardrobe that no longer match his
vision of style.
To keep myself fit I’ve been doing
Bollywood, Zumba and Dance fit more regularly these days. Yesterday morning I was even part of
IU’s Dance Marathon as a back-up dancer in Darrelyn’s Zumba troop. Our goal was to pump up the crowd of
over three thousand IU students with some energetic music and dance. They were thirty hours into the marathon
at 5:30 in the morning when we started.
It was a lot of fun, although I realized I was the oldest person in the
whole room. What I lack in youth I
make up for in enthusiasm! The
marathon was held in the indoor tennis facility to make room for all the
students and dancers.
With the balmy weather we’ve had
this week I was able to sand and paint four more frames for this winter’s
weaving projects. That brings my
total of finished frames to 24. The
warm weather will pass with the spate of thunderstorms and sporadic tornadoes
that passed us by yesterday afternoon.
Oh, and good news!
A fresh apple pie appeared early this week! I still have one slice left to have with coffee to start my Monday
morning, so life is good.
Until next week,
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