"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go." --Theodore Roethke

05/25/2011

"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go." --Theodore Roethke

I am learning where I have to go. It is slow. This week, so many ideas. So many projects! I put this on the loom on Saturday, and finished it Sunday. Just going with it. Following where it wanted to take me. I'm not sure what it is going to "be" yet. It hasn't told me.

The little blue "island" in the picture above came from some fabric scraps Em gave me. It was from an outfit she made for Little Boo, and has since been passed on to Aimee. This started a whole thought process on time. Telling time through cloth. I will need to come back to this and explore some more.

I think I need to be one step ahead of myself. There is a sense of panic when I take something off the loom. I had two thoughts. One was to weave with some rag scraps left over from a floor cloth I knit for Sarah last summer. But when I balled them all up, this was all there was left.

I guess I need to attack my closet and Sal Val for more rags. Second thought was to weave a space warp; then felt it, creating little stain glass windows.

I haven't woven with wool in a long time. I just love the Saori way of warping and dressing the loom. It is so easy. No more fighting tangles. No more warps from he**! Smooth and easy.

I've been playing with these little woven bands from my car weaving. Folding and sewing in origami shapes. Just playing, but I think there are some seeds for a larger project here.

At night I've been working on the potholder loom, free spinning and cardboard weaving a larger bag to go with my shuttle bag.

I've also been practicing Navajo 3-ply.

This is fleece from my Romneys. I'm trying to make up lots of skeins for future dye projects. If the sun ever comes out, I will start to pick my Shetland fleeces.