Mirrix has sponsored a number of weave-alongs but I’ve never participated in one, mostly because I’m completely focused on whatever design I’m doing (which hasn’t been and isn’t likely to be what the group is working on). But a couple of weeks ago, Sara Figal (a member of the Mirrix Facebook group) posted pictures of her in-progress tapestry, which was inspired by a Robert Frost poem. The tapestry is gorgeous, and the combination of the two art forms works really really well.<\/p>\n
The odds of getting a group of weavers to agree on a single poem didn’t seem very good. This led to the WeaveWith<\/em> concept, in which the organizer picks a general theme, and participants then pick their own design to play along.<\/p>\n [As it turns out, a couple of participants are using the same poem — Joyce Kilmer’s Trees<\/em>, and there’s a lot of Emily Dickinson.]<\/p>\n Overkill being my middle name, I have patterns for three different poems now, but I’m guessing I’ll only get one or two of them done (see “Christmas Present” above). First up on the list is another portrait of Squib, set to a poem called “The Cat,” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from The Great Cat: poems about cats<\/em><\/a>, edited by Emily Fragos for Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets.<\/p>\n This is the photo I chose:<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n The Cat<\/p>\n The cat —–<\/p>\n The tapestry will be 4-ish inches by 6-ish inches. I passed the 25% mark last night — here’s where it’s at now:<\/p>\n I am so fixated on writing helpful posts that I forget one other use of a blog: to keep track of what I’m working on. Duh. Here goes: A couple of weeks ago I started working on one of the Christmas presents I’m weaving. The pattern is based on an old black-and-white portrait of ******** … Continue reading Two new bead tapestries in progress<\/span> ![\"The](\"http:\/\/kardiac-kitten.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/christmas-squib.jpg\")
<\/a>….from which this pattern was designed:<\/p>\n![\"Sphinx](\"http:\/\/kardiac-kitten.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sphinx-snapshot-206x300.jpg\")
<\/a>…to illustrate this poem:<\/p>\n
\nlicks its paw and
\nlies down in
\nthe bookshelf nook
\nShe
\ncan lie in a
\nsphinx position
\nwithout moving for so
\nmany hours
\nand then turn her head
\nto me and
\nrise and stretch
\nand turn
\nher back to me and
\nlick her paw again as if
\nno real time had passed
\nIt hasn’t
\nand she is the sphinx with
\nall the time in the world
\nin the desert of her time
\nThe cat
\nknows where flies die
\nsees ghosts in motes of air
\nand shadows in sunbeams
\nShe hears
\nthe music of the spheres and
\nthe hum in the wires of houses
\nand the hum of the universe
\nin interstellar spaces
\nbut
\nprefers domestic places
\nand the hum of the heater.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"The](\"http:\/\/kardiac-kitten.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sphinx-12oct2014-2-web-300x168.jpg\")
<\/a>I’ve got two additional poems and patterns worked up, but as this post is now ridiculously long, I will introduce them when I start working on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"