January has come and gone. It was a busy month for me. Here is a tour in photos.
January 1: New Year’s Day. #weaveeveryday
I have no illusions that I as a business-owning, traveling teacher, tapestry weaver will be able to weave every single day of this year. But my intention is to weave as often as I can because even a few minutes of weaving means that my hands and eyes return to the process and little by little, progress is made. This is the beginning of a weaving on a copper pipe loom—a word for the year.
January 2
I made Emily watch a horrible movie which turned out to mostly be about divorce. It was one of those movies you think is going to be entertaining but realize an hour in that it is pretty bad. The sunk costs seemed so great that I felt I had to watch to the end in the endlessly optimistic hope that it would get better. It didn’t. Emily let the snowmen speak for her feelings (“I’d rather poke my eye out than watch that again!”). And day #2 of the word of the year weaving, a Fringeless tapestry on a pipe loom. (For the gallery photos, click to sese the whole photo, hover for captions. If you’re getting the blog via email you’ll need to go online to see the captions for the photos. Click HERE.)
January 3: @mochimochiworld reposts one of my images
A red letter day to be sure. (Snowman pattern in photo below is by this designer.)
January 4: some days are just chickens
January 5: Sample weaving
This is part of a sample weaving for the Design Solutions for the Artist/Weaver online course.
January 6: Chickens gone wild
January 7
In which it becomes clear that the word of the year is not steatorrhea.*
January 8
This was the day I figured out how to have a digital transcription made, how to edit it, and what file types I could use to upload it to Vimeo for have subtitles in my teaching videos. I was so excited that I took a photo of my screen to send to the ever-patient Emily.
January 9: Four days from the start of the launch of a new course
It can get pretty scary in my office. It is small and the materials I shuffle around to create new content are pretty extensive. I’ve never been buried so deeply I couldn’t get out though. And I’ll say, rather optimistically, that it often looks much better than this.
January 10: The word of the year
January 11
I spent much of this day taking images to use for cover art in the Design Solutions online course.
January 12
Image I used to talk about an additive system of designing.
January 13: The new course opens
On this day I did the first of two webinars in my studio. You can see a replay HERE.
January 14
Random book grab to support the Lani loom while warping for a new sample: The Places that Scare You and When Things Fall Apart (by Pema Chodron). Certainly not a commentary on the week.
January 15
I took a bunch of photos this day of various note-taking systems I use. This pile is of journals or sketchbooks I use fairly consistently.
January 19
Some days there weren’t any photos. Some days there were just chickens.
January 20: American Tapestry Alliance media tour on Instagram.
This was my day to kick the thing off. (My IG feed is @rebeccamezofftapestry)
January 21**
January 22
Traveling to Taos to teach a retreat we stopped at a friends house in Pueblo and I did a little spinning. Always carry a spindle in your bag.
January 23: Taos
I had a morning to wander around Taos by myself. My Taos design retreat started in the afternoon.
January 24; Tapestry retreat, day 2
A wonderful day of work in a beautiful studio.
January 25: Tapestry retreat, day 3
January 26: Tapestry retreat, day 4
January 27: Tapestry retreat, day 5
January 29: Back in the studio
January 30
Chicken helping with editing the replay video after doing a live Q&A.
January 31
Weaving a house as part of a demo for an online course.
And that is a month.
*Please forgive me. I come from a medical family and worked in medical settings for two decades. My filters are all broken.
**Alpaca pattern by Susan B. Anderson (from Knit Stars 4.0, so may not be more widely available). Chicken pattern (with some modification) and tiny snowmen in the IG screenshot by Anna Hrachovec (@mochimochiworld). Larger snowmen pattern by Sue Stratford & Val Pierce from Little Christmas decorations to Knit & Crochet.