tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post3978153964328807933..comments2024-03-09T10:15:11.266+13:00Comments on Unravelling: To Boldly Go Where Many Weavers have Gone Before!Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-87708516278194652462018-05-16T09:13:28.027+12:002018-05-16T09:13:28.027+12:00Laura, I kept a large amount of stash because you ...Laura, I kept a large amount of stash because you keep using up yours, and I thought if you can do it, I should be able to do about 1/20 or 1/50 of that. (I also have small amounts of unravelled cashmere sweater yarns, after seeing you and your mother work on them!!) Ahaha, not for this world's slowest weaver, no, madam. <br /><br />My FOMO for missed weaving opportunities/ideas/project/options is overwhelming, but I hope culling will allow me to concentrate better on styles I thought I loved. (Yeah, always open to changes, but I hope I won't regret the culling priorities.) Pat thought there wasn't much I could cull further as there were reasons I kept what I still have, and they made sense to her and she's seen what I do, and also knows some of the things I'd like to try, but we couldn't help chuckling because I have a lot. <br /><br />I'm the kind who needs to sit among available material to think up projects because materials inspire me, too, but also lack of availability. And then of course there is that holding-on-to-with-scale-wool-at-all-cost thing... And then!!!!! Pat wanted to check the wool boxes at the back I hadn't dared approaching since I spilled books on the stash room floor, and lo, we find some of my drawings, and, oh, dear me, I miss my life drawing classes. I so enjoyed them! <br /><br />So of course you're right, it's what we do on the way, in our time. Of course it is! Otherwise I can't keep weaving in the hopes I get better as I also had a short but sharp unravelling of me-as-a-weaver thing recently,because I'm not getting better but quite the opposite. <br /><br />I so share your nostalgia for places I haven't been, France, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Morocco, Tunisia, also French-speaking Canada, Mexico, Argentina. NYC, parts of London we couldn't afford to see. Even to revisit Minneapolis! TV and the Internet is better than nothing, but the air, the food, the eavesdropping on languages I don't understand! I even love having the telly on in foreign places just to see what kind of shows and even commercials they have. For two weeks in China in the 1980's, I kept their political broadcast on. I had no idea what they were saying but I found it entertaining. But for the foreseeable future, I must keep going back to Japan every so often, even though the 11 hour flights are getting so icky I want to bang on the emergency exits about 4 hours in and jump off, which while flying TO Japan is somewhere around Fiji! Europe is forever a dream, but if I should ever have a chance, I will most definitely break up my trip somewhere in Asia, because I haven't been to those places, either. <br /><br />And yet life goes on, and for that, I am ever so grateful. And for the Internet to allow me to connect to others from around the world, and right here, weavers and others. :-D Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-73824980578396702532018-05-16T08:53:29.196+12:002018-05-16T08:53:29.196+12:0015% is our normal sales tax for everything, incl f...15% is our normal sales tax for everything, incl food, Connie. Houses may be exempt; they were in the 1990s. Imports under NZ$400 escaped it until recently, but now the government is asking all Internet stores to tax us; over NZ$400 got stopped at the port of entry until we paid up. <br /><br />I'm pleasantly surprised I finally managed one "bold". Now looking at my gazillion skinny yarns, I wonder how on earth I could make "bold" out of these guys. Mottled referred to the colors, but either way, these are the looks I've always liked and tried to create. (And the cables move up, have you spotted that?) So it's a revelation I like something else at least for the moment. <br /><br />FOMO. Yes. I do so love seeing paintings in person, oils in particular, but also prints. It's something I only picked up in the last decade or so, and I finally got the hang of seeing paintings in crowded galleries, so I want to do some more before I can't see/walk any more. That's been one of my non-verbal sensations I've become addicted to! Also, stone architecture, but that's getting harder and harder to even dream of. Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-8008732552849940692018-05-16T03:18:29.433+12:002018-05-16T03:18:29.433+12:00I hear you about feeling isolated. As I get older...I hear you about feeling isolated. As I get older I find myself reducing the effort I am willing to take to go out of my 'comfort' zone. There are so many places I would love to see in person, but there is tv and internet and my desire to actually travel becomes less. I feel nostalgic for places I've never been, and never will (like your beautiful islands, so far away). My 'palette' of yarns is also reducing as I cull, er, weave down my stash. My favourite yarns are like good friends. They rarely disappoint. OTOH, as I look at 'retiring' from trying to sell my things I find an interest in exploring the creation of cloth in a more intellectual way. The journey continues. No idea of the destination, but the journey is the thing. :)Laura Fryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06599868570350256631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-36479700070461492542018-05-16T02:54:16.179+12:002018-05-16T02:54:16.179+12:00I love what you've been knitting, especially t...I love what you've been knitting, especially the BOLD cable on Ben's scarf. Could it be that the reason Mom's scarf looks more mottled is partly because of how the many cables, instead of just the one, break up the surface?<br />I'm right with you, re: living in the hinterlands. Except I no longer have FOMO...I just don't care anymore.<br />Yikes, 15% tax on imported goods??? Unbelievable... I could see them doing that on stuff that's already highly available in NZ, but not if it isn't. That's like forcing people to be Luddites if they can't afford the tax.<br />xxCate Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079028386218370915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-79706279379964175162018-05-15T18:02:24.355+12:002018-05-15T18:02:24.355+12:00"Bold"
1) size/proportion
2) hues/value..."Bold"<br />1) size/proportion <br />2) hues/values/intensities - saturated? relatively uniform?<br />3) uniform texture? flat?? <br />4) simplicity? lack of layers/mixtures?<br />5) lack of movement? really?? but direction would work. Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-51483915283190121422018-05-15T17:59:03.010+12:002018-05-15T17:59:03.010+12:00Note to self: "Complexity"
1) pattern/s...Note to self: "Complexity" <br />1) pattern/s from afar vs pattern/s close up, or obvious vs background <br />2) close hues/values/intensity/sheen, incl fiber contents<br />3) texture and/or yarn style/form<br />Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804noreply@blogger.com