A weaving celebration
It’s my birthday! I’m 66 years old. Seems like a lot of years. I’m celebrating with weaving.
This checkerboard piece got me weaving again last September after a break. I really wanted to try a design of squares. The weaving is very inexpert: wonky selvedges, lots of warp showing, wavering lines. The design is off center. And there was a dense forest of loose ends when I set it aside after taking it off the loom.
I was drawn back to it in the last few days and wove in all the ends. It’s amazing to watch them diminish and see a flat weaving emerge. I’ve grown fond of its wonkiness through all the handling. I don’t know if I’ll stitch together the slits or not.
This joins the pile of little weavings. I inset one into a notebook where I make notes on fiber and weaving. They’ve mostly been warming the windowsills.
Well Happy Birthday Catherine; your woven pieces are terrific; the color, the designs and I think that life is like a woven patch:, sometimes the threads come together as we planned, sometimes the threads have a mind of their own, form their own pattern and sometimes, it all comes together to astonish us….may your birthday be filled with things with color and joy and things you love and a bit of astonishment as well!
Thank you, Marti! I made up my mind to have a joyful day and it is being so. Weaving is such a metaphor, part of why I love it.
Happy Birthday to YOU! I like this little wonky weaving. It’s unique and would be a nice mug mat 🙂 Hope you day was grand.
I like the wonkiness and the effort of it and that I just did it thinking too much angst. I did have a nice day, lots of well wishes. 🙂
Happy day!
weaving a life…
Weaving a life… so fitting.
Happy Birthday Season (my family’s way of saying the celebration should last more than a day!) … and welcome to the newly-minted-Medicare-recipient club (which I also joined this year)
My sister celebrates for a whole month but she was born Mar 4. I was born at the tail end of January and kind of eager to let go of the month. But always a reason to celebrate, really! I joined Medicare last January when I turned 65. A relief to get off my COBRA payments through my last employer.
(hand to head) … 66 … my eyes aren’t what they used to be
Mine either! And pet peeve- why does most software these days come with tiny tiny text!!!
a belated Wish! and i wanted to say…i really like your weave….really…much more than the “correct” ones….this has
individuality, movement, feeling. I wonder what a deliberate exageration might feel like? it might be Wonder Full
ha, lots more can be done with the checkerboard, I think!