Hello intrepid weavers. Winter is in its full glory in my neck of the woods--time to weave?!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Guild Meeting: Our next meeting is February 15, 2025. It is a show and tell meeting.
Snowflake Challenge: As reported in last blog's post, the Guild has issued a challenge. Bring your snowflakes to the May meeting!
Emberlight Project: Our Guild has decided to enter an exhibit in the Art in the Park exhibit this summer. The Miners Memorial Park is in Ironwood, Michigan. As part of the Emberlight festival, artists set up an exhibit in the Park. Guild members have been coming in on Tuesdays (when the folk school has its knitting group) and working on our project. Contact our group to find who is coming in and when. If you can't make it, no worries. Be sure to go and see it during July in the Art Part of the Miners Memorial Park.
MUSINGS:
Lately, I have been lacking any inspiration or creative impulses. Mostly because it is winter and the sun is not shining. Also, because in my usual fashion, I have overcommitted to classes and am feeling stressed by it. Just shows you can age, but sometimes you don't get any wiser.
I have been musing about this because I have been thinking about what it means to be an artist. One of the things I was reading pointed out that we are artists even if we don't think we are good. We are expressing ourselves and that makes us artists. Talk about an aha moment.
I have repeatedly gone down the art/craft rabbit hole which has made this artist thing more complicated. If what I am doing is craft am I not an artist? I read another article that brought some light to this issue. It first went into the fact that this is a false dichotomy. Historically, this notion was propagated to keep women out of the tapestry and other guilds. However, it seems to have entered my psyche. I seem to struggle when I am not making something utilitarian and instead spending my time on making something that speaks to my soul.
Do you have any thoughts about this? Or am I overthinking this? My husband would say that I have too much time on my hands if I am spending my time thinking of these things. But what does he know--he spends his time playing pickle ball!
GROUP QUESTION:
What brings you joy in regard to your weaving practice?
PHOTOS:
Mary's Show and Tell:
Melissa’s friend who is part of the local Medieval historical group. Her persona is a weaver and She brought her tablet weaving. Same pattern in two different weights.
Phyllis is wearing a red wool garment from MarySue Fenner’s sale of samples from her Trunk Show.
Phyllis took the Discontinuous Brocade class and this is her finished weaving.
Sample for Phyllis’s double weave workshop this fall.
Clare with woven piece from fall class
Sample of Laura Fisher Nickleson design
John and Clare ‘s weavings from his first classes at Finlandia with Phyllis.
Johns and Clare's discontinuous double weave sample
David found some treasures he is willing to part with pure silk.
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