This is my first foray into blogging. I have eschewed the process in the past due to a deep-seated dislike of "vanity" blogs. But I have been persuaded to try blogging as a way of connecting with other people interested in tapestry and as a way to describe my process when creating tapestry. Hopefully it can be a less formal way than my website to communicate where I am with my art. Wish me luck!
Today I mailed this piece (titled This Time I Dance) to a friend who purchased it in Denver. It is always a little sad to see a piece go (especially because this one just came off my loom a couple weeks ago), but it is good to know that it is appreciated by a friend. After all the work of designing the piece, dyeing the yarn (which for this piece was a lengthy process of about 50 colors), weaving the piece, finishing it, photographing it, and looking at it on the studio wall for awhile, putting it in a box and relinquishing it to a postal employee seems a little shocking. But we have to let our art go so it can find its own way in the world and so that we artists can move on and create something new.
