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January 10, 2024 is HERE. Today I worked again on the American Dipper tapestry. I talked about weaving eccentrically, some about pigtails, and some about color mixing and weft bundling.

I wrote a blog post about American Dippers HERE and you can watch me weave on this as-yet unfinished tapestry in four past Change the Shed Episodes HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Classes I mentioned

Tapestry Discovery Box
Design Solutions for the Artist/Weaver, Season 2
Warp and Weft: Learning the Structure of Tapestry
What Makes a Good Tapestry Yarn?
Fringeless: Four Selvedge Warping with Sarah C. Swett (and myself!)

Sarah Swett’s Guides

I mentioned Sarah’s Tucking the Tails guide which is a downloadable PDF. You can find it HERE. Make sure to check out the rest of her website while there and don’t forget to subscribe to The Gusset. It is fantastic.

“Thank you for all your fabulous YouTube videos, well written blogs, incredible classes and your overall pleasant, kind, encouraging, and inspiring self! It’s a JOY to explore all you have given!”
— Laurie McIntyre in a comment in this episode

January 31, 2024 is HERE. I worked on the American Dipper tapestry one last time because I couldn’t find the yarn for the other one I wanted to show you. Fingers crossed I can find it before the next CTS on Feb 14th. Moving will get you!

Fate, Destiny, and Self-Determination

I mentioned this wonderful project run by Line Dufour in the episode. If you want to contribute a shape or just learn more about it, the website for the project is HERE and you can find it on Facebook HERE. You can contribute a shape and have your work travel the world with this piece!

Online courses I mentioned

Rare earth magnets

We talked about how to hold a cartoon onto your weaving. Rare earth magnets can be a great way to do that, but you have to be careful if you have any beings in your house who might swallow them. They are also so strong they can pinch your fingers. I think the larger ones are safer and easier to use. Just google rare earth magnet for options.

February 14, 2024 is HERE. In this episode I worked on a new tapestry inspired by the desert. This is a piece I had on CTS March 2, 2022 and you can watch that video HERE. Dave asked what my inspiration for this piece was and as it was 2 years ago, I honestly no longer have a firm grasp of where this idea came from. I promised to do some research into my sketchbooks and will get back to you on that on the next CTS in two weeks.

This piece involved building up a shape and then outlining it on a Fringeless four-selvedge warp.

February 28, 2024 is HERE. I worked on this topo-map inspired piece again today. I took out some of what I did two weeks prior and I talk about why I did that. We talked about materials as well as things like using a cartoon as a reference versus an exacting following of dots on the warp. One choice might be good for one person and another for another. It depends. I also talked about twisting the yarn as I lay it in versus not twisting the bundle and why I might do one or the other.

I was weaving the beginning of this piece on March 2, 2022 on Change the Shed and you can watch that episode HERE.

Shows people mentioned

Tiny but Mighty: The American Tapestry Alliance unjuried show. I love this show and it is well worth entering and definitely worth seeing. It’ll be shown during Convergence in July in Witchita, KS.

Small Expressions: This is a Handweavers Guild of America show which is a juried show. I believe it will also hang during Convergence.

Summer of Tapestry 2024

You can find more information and register HERE.

Books

You can get my book, The Art of Tapestry Weaving from anywhere books are sold but I recommend getting it HERE.
My other book, Untangled: A Crafty Sheep’s Guide to Tapestry Weaving you can get either from Mirrix Looms or on my website HERE.
I read a quote from Dare to Sketch: A Guide to Drawing on the Go by Felix Scheinberger.

March 13, 2024 is HERE. I worked on the topo map piece again. We talked about filling in low spots and a lot about weft tension.

Fixing Your Sheds

This popular workshop is happening again the end of this month. More information and registration is here: https://rebeccamezoff.com/shedding-workshop. If you miss this live run, you can always take the recorded version.

The Joshua Tree book I mentioned

Things I learned from falling was a good read. It is by Claire Nelson.

Weft Tension

I have a short YouTube video about this HERE but I recommend taking one of my online classes if you’re struggling with this concept. Every tapestry weaver does and it takes some knowledge and a lot of practice to overcome it.

A Fiber Life podcast

You can find this really wonderful podcast about raising guanacos and other animals on a small farm in Washington HERE.

Donations to Change the Shed

You can find the donation button on the main Change the Shed page HERE.

March 27, 2024 is HERE. I worked on the topo line piece. We talked about whether I should add another open warp section and where during the broadcast. I wrote a blog post about this the next week that you can read HERE.

April 10, 2024 is HERE. Today I worked on the topo line piece and was able to finish all the decisions and make it almost to the end of the piece before the end of the episode.

Classes I mentioned

Fixing Your Sheds
Summer of Tapestry
The Tapestry Discovery Box (Please contact me if you’re in the UK and want to get the Discovery Box)
Fringeless: Four Selvedge Warping with Sarah C. Swett

Textiles and Tea

I mentioned this in passing. It is an interview program that Handweavers Guild of America runs and they interview fiber artists and creators. You can find out more here: https://weavespindye.org/textiles-and-tea/

Other random things I mentioned

My books

The Art of Tapestry Weaving (affiliate link)
Or if you want a signed copy you can get it from me HERE.
Untangled: A Crafty Sheep’s Guide to Tapestry Weaving

The April 24 episode is HERE. I worked on a new piece which is an example for Summer of Tapestry 2024. We talked about pick and pick, shedding issues, and how important value is. We also talked some about finishing tails and options for why you’d have clean backs or not.

Donations to Change the Shed can be made HERE.

Classes I talked about

Summer of Tapestry
Tapestry Discovery Box
Warp and Weft
Fixing Your Sheds

I used the word crapaud at one point when I was fixing the shed. That is just a short piece of yarn to shift the shed. I talk about this in many classes, but especially in the Fixing Your Sheds class.

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