Weaving and new work....

Remember the images of work on the loom? Here it is! The finished scarf....

Something new taking shape in the studio...more on this to come....I used an old original illustration from
my 2004 book The Famous & The Anonymous as a collage element.

And another new piece taking shape....also with an illustration from
The Famous & The Anonymous

Two tiny canvases taking shape, too.....far from being complete, though

Weaving at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts -- progress continues!

I'm making steady progress on the weaving that I'm doing at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. There are just two classes left, so I have to boogey to get it completed and off the loom, so that I can learn how to tie the fringe ends. I'm doing large blocks of color, as seen below, and it's looking really neat (much more vividly colored than it appears in these pictures, which look so washed out and greyed down by comparison). I'll have finished pictures very soon!

Section 1 of my scarf (and my jeans below)

Section 2 of my scarf (ha! and my little purple-shoed feet beneath)

Tying Off The Loom -- Next Week I Weave

I mentioned in my April 9th posting that I'm taking a weaving class at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. I've been making steady progress on getting the warp wound on the board, the reeds threaded and in the loom. These past two classes, I've been threading the heddle, "combing out" the strands,  getting the appropriate tension on the yarn, and tying off the ends. Next week, I should be able to start filling my shuttle and putting in weft. Very excited to get to this part! In the meantime, some pictures.... 

The back of the loom--the yarn is under tension



The front of the loom, where I'll sit to weave. I
tied off all the ends before I left class today. Next Tuesday,
I'll begin adding weft. I plan to start with lime green,
move to my yellow-orange, and then to the purple-pink
(the weft yarn colors are visible by clicking here)

Weaving Class

I've begun taking a weaving class on the third floor of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. I've chosen some wild colors for my scarf. The warp is the variegated multi-tonal worsted wool on the upper right. The woof will be the yellow-orange wool, the purple-pink wool, and the lime green wool that surround it. So excited to start weaving! Right now, I'm still in the heddle-threading stage. 





The colors of wool that I chose! A little wild, I know, but I think they will be
beautiful when put all together. The pattern will be twill.




Designing on the heddle itself. I'll have a lot of combing out
to do.

 More on my other projects very soon!