A Hobbity Garden

 I call this my hobbity garden tapestry, so A Hobbity Garden is probably a good title for it.

 

 Just added the hobbity feet.  👣

Need to add some orange flowers.

Color Play

I'm going to play with color in weaving.  Color play.  Exploring Pinterest for examples of iridescence in weaving and also movement.  My flame studies should dance.

Pulling images and putting them in Tapestry, Color Ways, Pattern.

 

 

Molten Beneath Strata, detail. ©2017 Elizabeth J. Buckley

Don't try 'n do it all in one sample.  Try iridescence in one, color change with another, shape of flames, various things to try.  Best to make a methodical study.

I particularly love Elizabeth Buckley's Molten series.

 

Our fireplace.

 

Fireplace ~ close up.

Flames, Ribbons, Color Changes

 I know what I like about Sandy Fisher's paintings ~ the color changes!  I have her Desert Bloom

 

But I just thought I liked the colors.  It's the color changes!  Sandy pointed that out on the FB page.  Both in a family, as this one, or contrasting as in this one

another denizen of the desert. Agave.

It starts out like this:

with a contrasting under painting and then she builds up all the color changes and depth.

Fantastic.

I have something that plays around in my mind ~ my ribbony flames, like my paleo horse painting, Flickers.

I go round and round with the name.  Sometimes Flickering Flames, Dancing Flames, even Flicka, a play on the horse and the flames.  Flicka means girl.

It all stems from a painting that used to hang over the fireplace in the Den at Blackburn.  It wormed it's way into my brain and now it wants out.

Taking Sandy's color changes in mind, two close colors next to each other can be luminous, like a peacock feather.  Say blue and green, or blue and purple.  Blue and red making purple.  Movement to fool the eye.

So I think I'm working my self around to a series of mini-tapestries (or they'll never get finished) That play with all these effects.

Crabby TW Band for WGGB Demo

I'm going to take part in a weaving demo at the Mill Manor with my weaving guild.  It was amusing (and horrifying) to discover that I probably haven't touched tablet weave in a couple decades.  O.O  I'm refreshing my memory, but it's a slog.

Continuous warp on the inkle.

I was all the way through warping the cards up on my inkle loom in a continuous warp when I realized the knot was on the wrong side of the cards!  Luckily the pattern is symmetrical and I was able to tie it in a few places (like a warp chain), flip it around and put it back on the loom.

 

There were a few minor fixes yet, but I think I finally have it ready to weave.  And by weave I mean lots of sample motifs until I get the one I want.

My weaving station.  8- ]

Hobbity Garden ~ Elevenses

 Back to work on the hobbity garden, “Elevenses.”

Added a hedge and gate for a secret garden, plus a stone walk way.  A lilac tree will hang over the hobbit on the left side.

The Road Goes Ever On... Finished

 

 

 

Color truer with second one.  Kinda like stick orientation on the first one.  If I were going to dangle something, like a cat toy, off the stick I'd use the upturned orientation.

The Road Goes Ever On...

 

        Almost there ~ needs chop and to sew loops

Back to work on The Road Goes Ever On...

Basically tucking and tacking and anything else that needs added, like my chop.  

 

The back.