The last several weeks have been hectic. I had a show/sale in the yard on Thanksgiving Sunday as part of the Arden Artisans' Trail and yesterday I was in the Sculpture Garden at the Delaware Art Museum for their Winter Festival. The Winter Festival is usually inside the museum. COVID put a stop to that for this year. The museum got permission from the state to issue a … [Read more...]
Sine waves
I’ve been thinking about sine waves lately. Not that I’d ever heard about them until about a week ago when I showed Danny a pattern in Jane Callender’s book, and his automatic response was “that’s a sine wave.” And he proceeded to explain it was a mathematical curve used to graph smooth periodic oscillations over time like the length of daylight hours over the course of a year. … [Read more...]
The more the merrier
We held our weekly stitch fest on Saturday last week. Cecilia had an eye appointment on Friday that she'd made months ago. We were happy to have Betty join us again. We had a surprise visitor - Mary Brent - who dropped by to purchase two felted Siamese fighting fish I had made several years ago. She was in time for tea and gingerbread men made by Cecilia. Betty brought hand … [Read more...]
Stars align
Cecilia, Rachel and I were discussing artists yesterday - or rather who among us was the most artistic. I said I considered myself a craftsman, not an artist. Something just won’t let me go there - lack of a degree in fine arts being the most obvious reason. Rachel, who has done garden design and now designs and makes jewelry, was also a little hesitant about the word. … [Read more...]
The results revealed
Saturday, October 17, 2020This morning dawned clear and sunny, but chilly. I went out to the studio early to start clipping threads on the work that was dyed yesterday. Rachel showed up mid-morning, and Cecilia a little later. It was so much fun, clipping those knots, and pulling out a very short piece of thread to reveal the pattern that had been stitched. Everyone was very … [Read more...]