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Solstice Spinning

6/21/2016

 
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Installing "Please, Can You Pass My Knitting". Hanging things from the ceiling requires quite a ladder. Background: Rough Copy #13
I hoped, this morning, 
to write an elegantly illustrated post
about the wonder and delight
of my exhibition
which opened last Thursday.
Picture
"Against The Tide" hanging above the stairs
Alas, most of the photos were unsatisfactory for one reason or another.
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Rough Copy #1: Blue Dog Motel
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Rough Copy #2-5
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Rough Copy #6-7
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Rough Copy # 8-12 (from right to left). So great to have a wall tall enough for #12, which is 104" long.
In the upstairs gallery in particular
my  phone camera refused to focus 
so  the pictures of all of my thrilling recent work
(embroideries, tiny tapestries and mobiles)
looked terrible
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"Oddments, Fragments" (out of focus) and its shadow
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"Rising circles", "Fill In The Blank" and their shadows
But oh well.

The exhibition is up until the end of July,
and all the work, (including the pieces already sold),
will remain until then.
Plenty of time to go back another day
with a different camera
and try again.

And THAT means
that today,
after posting this,
I can card a few more rolags, 
go outside 
with my new spindle,
and
​make yarn
and music
at the same time.
Picture
Jenkins Aegean Turkish Spindle. 17g. Fig Wood. Jacob Fleece, hand carded
Happy Solstice.
patti kirch
6/21/2016 11:10:18 pm

During the Fiber festival the Prichard Gallery was packed with youth and experienced art appreciators! The gallery is set up for easy up close and far away viewing of each tapestry. Up stairs in a separate space, Sarah's recent works were floating vertically or horizontally and hung from the walls or pedestals. The lighting so natural, the tapestries wanting to be read. Inscribed in a bench in the Moscow arboretum I recently read; Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) . Thank you for all your wonderfulness Sarah!!!!

Nancy Bailey
6/22/2016 02:08:27 am

This looks to be a fabulous exhibition. I don't suppose, for those of us unable to attend (being on the other side of the world), that some wonderful curator might think to make a video of the exhibition...

Sarah
6/22/2016 02:48:47 pm

Wow, interesting idea, Nancy. If not a full fledged video, I might be able to do something simple with my ipad that would help give a feeling for the space and, ideally, get some pics of the mobiles in motion. Thanks!

Cindy Dworzak
6/22/2016 07:19:21 am

The exhibit looks wonderful wish I could see it in person. Love seeing the pictures of your pieces.

Lynn Somerstein link
6/22/2016 08:31:42 am

Fun, absorbing, creative, and I wish I could be there in person to see and enjoy this work!

Ama
6/22/2016 08:38:49 am

Congratulations, Sarah, I think the photos look lovely! Hope very much to see your work in person one day - if just seeing a tiny thumbnail image of your piece "Anywhere Else" could inspire me to weave portraits, imagine the real deal?!? My heart would sing.

Sarah
6/22/2016 02:52:23 pm

Wow, Ama, thanks for that -- esp the mention of "Anywhere Else". What delight to know it helped generate some of your wonderful work. FYI, next year I have two shows on the (northern) West Coast -- May - July at the LaConner Quilt and Textile Museum in LaConner WA, and in the fall -- Sept?- at the Latimer Quilt and Textile Center in Tilamook, OR. Both way north of you, but I do plan to have the Rough Copy tapestries at the LaConner Show. Just in case there is a chance we could meet in person!!

janie Payne
6/22/2016 10:26:09 am

Thank you for sharing, it is a beautiful show!

Sarah
6/22/2016 03:37:12 pm

Thank you Janie. They did do a lovely job of hanging it. I am most fortunate.

Valerie Martin-Pearson
6/22/2016 01:53:43 pm

The photos of the exhibit are wonderful! Thank you for sharing. I love the new spindle as well. Do you find that you prefer the spindles more than the wheel at this point? Curious because I find I prefer more portable tools for myself at this time.

Sarah
6/22/2016 03:33:36 pm

Yes Valerie, I DO prefer my spindles. I love my wheel (a Cherry Lendrum Saxony), but I haven't spun on it in several years other than to (very occasionally) dust the underside of the drive wheel. I keep thinking that one of these days I will, but then I pick up a spindle and wander outside and that is that.
As you say, spindles are just so darned convenient, and now that I've discovered the bliss of truly functional, fast, balanced, lightweight spindles -- my 24 g. hepty high whorl made by my son Henry Edwards, a 19 gram steel/bamboo high whorl from Bhutan and an 11 gram Kuchulu from Ed Jenkins-- I haven't felt the need for anything else.
Until last weekend, that is, when I got the Jenkins Aegean pictured in the blog post, which is allowing me to make some super fluffy woolen yarn from rolags, a thing I haven't done in ages and so feels new and thrilling all over again.
As Ed Franquemont used to say about spindle spinning: "Slower by the hour, faster by the week." And all those weeks add up.
Spin on!!!

Margaret
6/23/2016 06:02:59 pm

Thank you for putting these photos up. It would be so good to see it all in person but.....I will just have to be content with the photos.
Really interesting comment about using your spindles above the wheel. If I did that I would get a lot more spun as 'wheeltime' is few and far between. Love the little video in Instagram!

Sarah
6/27/2016 06:43:28 am

Hello Margaret -- it continually amazes me how much I can accomplish (and with such pleasure), with spindles. With one in my purse, another by my very slow computer and a third that I try to return to a central table when I have to put it down, yarn is made in all sorts of unlikely moments like waiting for tea water to boil or my computer to think, all to my benefit and sense of contentment.

Fran
6/24/2016 07:46:09 am

Sarah, your tapestries are awesome, and so bravely original. Thanks for that.

Sarah
6/27/2016 06:38:44 am

Thank you Fran! I so appreciate your support. Makes me feel brave about following the winding path.

Debra A. Price Agrums Sposa link
6/26/2016 10:37:25 pm

Love the exhibit!! No worries about the photos, just really nice to see all your work displayed so beautifully. I adore your woven mobiles, are there any left for sale?

Sarah
6/27/2016 06:37:16 am

Thank you Debra! I much appreciate your enthusiasm, interest and kind words. There are a few mobiles left--at least I think so. I haven't checked with the gallery in a few days. Such a thrill to have this response to my airy explorations.


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