Starting a new idea

 I have decided that it is time to start a new small tapestry. That is the benefit of having a group that organises a yearly challenge. It gives me something to think about. 

And the group that usually meets once a month is now meeting on Zoom and has decided to show our progress at the beginning of November. So I had better have an idea! Only some of us participate in the challenge, it is organised by another online group. Others will have different things for show and tell. Actually, Zoom means that we all get a turn and it is really quite orderly, unlike our usual chats and comings and goings, which are wonderful in a different way.

The theme is Weaving Water: so many ideas come to mind. But I had worked down to one image.

I played with it in PhotoShop to make it slightly easier to see how to weave it. 

It is of the Yarra after rain - very brown water. It will be a challenge not to put any blue in, if I decide to use this image. Even the sky wasn't blue. 

Then I started going through the papers that I painted, earlier in the year, for the paper collages I did with Tara Axford in her online course. I thought it might help me get a clearer idea of how to weave it if I did a collage first. 

I came across some papers I had just smeared paint on to a gelli plate and saw water! And one of them really appeals to me. So now I will have to decide what to do ... That will slow me down again. 

It doesn't look as good here as in reality but it still evokes water for me. 

It is exciting to have found something to inspire me. I won't make a decision immediately - I have been told I am a very slow starter - but I am tending to think that I might prefer to do an abstract image. I am always trying to do abstract but never quite get there. 

I can see some interesting yarns could be included in my more abstract idea. Decisions, decisions. 

As it is a lovely day today, and we can go out for an unspecified amount of time, I'll go for a walk and let the decision be made later. 

In the meantime, I could warp up the loom. I know the dimensions that are for the challenge: 20cm x 20cm. Not that I will necessarily do it square, that can be a difficult shape to make look good.