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10/21/2018

 
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The title seemed appropriate  first thing this morning. 
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After all, I have been having a grand and interesting time
weaving walnut-dyed coffee filters and zip loc bags
into mountains, rivers, houses and meadows
and I was excited to tell you about it. 
Indeed, I've been taking pics all along the way,
both to remind myself of what I did when,
​and so I could share them here.
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It's Only a Paper Moon (in progress); hand woven tapestry; Iris and cattail leaves, flax, zip loc bag, walnut-dyed coffee filter, variable annuity quarterly report. 4" x 4"
But a short while ago
after transferring said photos to my computer,
I discovered that Apple,
in its wisdom
(and endless desire to make our lives easier, don't cha know),
had,
without asking,
converted all my photos to some new
(and oh so efficient),
format
that Weebly,
my website/ blog builder
 cannot read.
(for some reason it left the photo two up as a jpg. Why?  Maybe because it was  out of focus?).
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Turns out that delving into the bowels of my settings
I could turn this new feature off for future photos
(though of course the device urged me not to),
which is how I managed to take
the pics you see here.

But all of this has annoyed me more than I can say.
so I think
instead of downloading and learning
 some OTHER new app
that will allow me to transform all my other photos
(the ones they automatically changed),
back into a form I can use,
so I can do what I originally planned--
which was to wax poetic
about the delicate process
of making yarn
from annual reports
​ and coffee filters--
I will go back to the loom
and transform
 dead leaves
into sky. 
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Pru Bovee
10/23/2018 12:44:18 pm

Could you just point out where the financial papers are in your weavings? I am MOST entertained by making something from those endless stacks of dense, unreadable legalese.

Sarah
10/23/2018 12:54:34 pm

The Moon (It’s only a paper moon tapestry) in this post, and in the previous post, “The Cost of Solitude” has financial papers in the sky, the bottom border and the closest hill.
Xoxoxo

Jennifer Edwards link
10/23/2018 04:05:25 pm

How incredibly creative and clever and his spinning of all manner of stuff!! It’s truly marvelous, and your tapestries are fabulous. 👍🤗🍁

Cheryl
10/23/2018 05:31:20 pm

Fabulous!
(Maybe a dumb question from a newbie) but how do you turn paper and leaves into a weavable string/yarn? Do you treat them with anything to make them pliable?

Sarah
10/30/2018 12:12:25 pm

Hi Cheryl — no treatment of the paper so far. Just cut into strips (ideally a long continuous strip), dampen just the right amount (whatever that may be for the particular paper, a thing am just learning myself), and add twist. Today’s blog post talks a little bit about it, and there are some resource links at hte bottom which might explain more.

Leonie link
10/23/2018 11:21:54 pm

I love the thought of spinning my old bank statements. Truth be told I shred them and put them in the chicken coop to absorb the you know what. Most satisfying! 😄

Sarah
10/30/2018 12:13:39 pm

The chicken solution to such bits of paper is brilliant. Wish I had some. I sometimes use them as weed blocking mulch, under a pile of straw of glass clippings. Pretty effective around the new raspberry canes.

Tracy Hudson link
10/24/2018 10:05:55 am

I can't tell you how much I love looking at the details of the Paper Moon in progress. And while it would have been entrancing to see the whole process documented, I feel for your choice of weaving over tech-wrangling. This is why I rarely cobble a post myself!
A few words and images are enough to inspire for days, so thanks!

Evelyn Swett link
10/25/2018 08:04:39 am

Enchanting and inspiring as always. Hate those technology upgrades get in the way of our creative efforts sometimes.

Daria
10/28/2018 07:26:48 am

I just discovered your blog. All I can say is wow! Thank you for sharing your diverse and expansive creativity. I learned to spin paper a couple years ago in a Susan Byrd workshop. You have inspired me to spin some more paper and get weaving.

Sarah
10/30/2018 12:15:44 pm

Gosh Daria, if you have studied with Susan J. Byrd than you know a million times more than I do, and I’m honored to know that my experiments might bring you back to weaving with paper. Such an enticing world, is it not?


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