Spring is starting to happen, weaving and Freecycle

Here's a wonderful spring happening, permission granted from photographer Kizzia Mildmay 

And after mentioning paper weaving using shredder strips, here are a few pieces I made using my shredded photographs 

Bathroom art!

Artist book covers awaiting assembly and pages.

And while I looked for the weavings, I came across paper to Freecycle 

Materials usually go over well. The tan papers are mulberry, and there are various tissues, tracing paper, nice card stock, index cards, drawings on artist made paper, a grab bag.

And there's quite a bit of artwork, drawing, embroideries, photo and fabric transfer, ink and wash, ink drawings, so we'll see if there's a taker 

Weekends are good for Freecycling because people are free and out and about.

So that's a change from medical bulletins and miserable billionaires.

Happy day everyone, even if you're just a hundredaire!

Textiles and Tea, tapestry, sock start

I started a sock for the Sock 'n Glove Ministry, while listening to the latest Contrarian, with founders Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen discussing the felon's current edicts. Reliable reporting coupled with making. A win.

Another day of excitement, Gary taking all kinds of trouble to get me a battery, so now we hope it's done. He wants to take it to the dealership to get them to tighten it in place better, so I'm good with that. Some technicality about the terminals.

And Textiles and Tea brought Molly Elkind, a former tapestry weaver now weaving in paper, after a shoulder injury stopped her tapestry work.

She uses 140lb water color paper, painted then sliced into strips then overpainted then rewoven. Definitely worth visiting her website. 

I used to do paper weaving, with paintings and photographs, and taught a couple of community classes at the library to kids. They love paper weaving, worth it to try if you have grandchildren. 

Even quite young children can manage it if you tape down the  top of the strips to keep them still. I used my little paper shredder, which cuts strips with sawtooth edges, very handy for keeping the strips snugly together.

Happy day, everyone, get weavin'!