Well, the online course for tapestry weaving, through the Australian Tapestry Workshop, has finished. I am feeling a bit flat about that. The course was interesting, I learnt and relearnt things, it took concentration and time.
We were given a task to do that required all the above but not much decision-making of a creative sort - except to think about how you might incorporate a certain technique into your work.
The final task was to interpret a design that was provided. It was a black and white cartoon. But we were also provided with three interpretations of the piece, done by the three different teachers.
I did mine, which turned out not to be all that much like the other interpretations, which I didn't really notice till we had our Zoom session and people were talking about how they had interpreted them, They were talking about some bits that I just had not seen. That's probably the fault of Covid fatigue and wanting to get it done in time. (That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.)
Seeing I am very unlikely to be weaving someone else's image, I didn't worry too much. And it was very difficult to do all the detail as we were weaving with a thick warp and weft - thicker than I usually use. And it was only 16cm square. Not much room for small detail.
I wasn't happy with the top right hand corner, so have now pulled out a bit and rewoven it. Of course, I was concentrating so hard on that that I started to pull in the sides - it is so easy to do that! I wasn't up to the task of pulling it out again - it will have to do. (I'm not what you would call a perfectionist!)
I had trouble with the warping up - as usual. I did a better job than usual but did notice that is was slightly tighter on the left-hand side - now I can see that there are ridges in the weaving on that side. Live and learn.
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