The shared tapestry is almost finished!

 I thought I should post today, it being 12/5/21 - not a wonderful date but still ok. Visually. The 12th of November will be better. 

I have been looking for notes I made at a Jane Sassaman workshop I did years ago - I think it was in 2012, that seems to be when the photos and other blog posts are from. I haven't found the drawings I was looking for but I was able to find some stuff due to the wonderfulness of the blog which is searchable. It gave me something to think about and a date to look up old photos. 

I have a glimmering of an idea for a new piece. It won't be big and I may make it into another bag for my tapestry loom. This was inspired by getting my small loom back on the weekend, due to our shared piece finally being finished. 

I looked it up and we started it in early 2019. It has been to several weavers and is now finished - ta da!!

We didn't rush. We could blame it on Covid lockdowns but I doubt that it would have been much faster. 

We had a cutting off ceremony with our small tapestry weaving group at the Handspinners and Weavers Guild rooms last Saturday. Not all the participants could be there but it was lovely to see most of them. And other members of the group who could not participate in the project. 

The weaving was done on a rolling warp, meaning you can move it around the loom to make it longer than the loom. I have yet to get my head around how to do this! Someone else set it up for us. 

And here she is braiding the warps so it won't all fall apart. 

The piece has gone to one of the weavers to be tidied up and made ready for hanging. The person who volunteered says she loves tidying up - not my thing at all but I am grateful that it is hers. 

Then we will have to decide what to do with her - who will have her, who will have room for her, where might we display our wondrous work, etc. (I couldn't work out where to put the question marks so that I didn't have to put full stops, so left them out.) 

I won't post a photo of it finished, in all its glory, till we have decided what to do with it. We may enter it in an exhibition that doesn't allow you to have published images previously. Watch this space (but don't hold your breath). 

Now I have my favourite loom back, and the bag it has been travelling around in. So I will have to put away the one I have been using lately and it needs a bag - in my opinion. Mind you, that doesn't mean I will make one, just that I am thinking about it.