Purples, blues and greens

Although my garden can't compare to Giverny, and I have no water lilies - just one small fountain - looking around, I have some of the water lilies colors in my yard.

Meanwhile, the weaving on the water lilies shawl proceeds apace.

Inspiration needed

With any process, there's a part that's less fun than the others.  For me and weaving that's beaming and tyeing on.  I don't know why - just is.  It would be easy to lose momentum at this point and - dare I say it? - procrastinate. 

That's why I need a little inspriation to keep going.  This video combines views of the Giverny gardens with Monet's paintings.  The second half of the video features a museum gallery designed to display some of the paintings to advantage.

And now, back to winding on warp.  Day 9 of Art Every Day Month

Order out of chaos

Some people thrive on chaos.  I am not one of them.  I like order - everything in it's place.  I also enjoy creating order out of chaos.  That, in a fundamental way, is what weaving is about.



Wild string in its natural, chaotic state.

Weaving takes a highly

chaotic element - string - and turns it into its most organized state - cloth.  Along the way, the weaver adds organization to the string in various ways: chaining it in warps, sleying it in reeds, threading it through heddles, winding it on beams and bobbins.  But these are just interim steps.

In the end, the only thing that holds the string in its most organized state is itself.  Through a series of interlacements with others of its kind, string becomes cloth.  That is, in itself, a miracle of creation.  



String confined in heddles in preparation for weaving.  Day 8 of Art Every Day Month.