parting thoughts-TIF

i did the blogs yesterday and found some very interesting thoughts on this month's topic. Almost everyone disliked being categorized and labelled. It was also a general perception that labelling or categorizing was limiting and that people are polyhedric.
However, Fiona of Love Fibre made a distinction between naming and labelling that, as i see it, clarified concepts. She put it down beautifully. And that got me thinking again.

So for me, i really do not care if i'm labelled or classified. Can't complain being in the company of Anni Albers, Peter Collingwood, Alice Schlein, Bonnie Inoyue, Mary Atwater, Arai Junichi..... :)

And insisting on the topic of being a weaver :) the photo is the scarf that came out of the woven sample that was used for May's TIF.It is my favorite scarf, a double weave in colorful cotton warp and silk weft to brighten up winter blues.

neki desu

the good news is that i think i'm 20

The bad news is that i ain't. As a result i don't know how to gauge my energy and end up overextending myself.But why? i could do all of this and then some more a while ago without exhausting myself.

Take last week i was all over the place, literally and figuratively.
Went to Girona to visit my friend and caught the flower festival wrapping up, yet was able to see some of the displays and take some photos.
Then it was stripping some paint off the doors on the hallway. Hallway and doors will be painted this coming week, if we can decide on the color, that is.
A lot of studio work, finishing up May's TIF. testing paints and sketching some ideas for a new series (hurray,hurray), threading loom 2 and finishing some ATC's. And i'm already exhausted just by listing the activities.

Back to may's TIF.
These are close ups of my different textile and life interests.

Or textile practices.

Or techniques.

But notice that the central element is a double weave woven sample.
Don't know if i was successful in conveying what i wrote about in my preliminary thoughts.
Perhaps i forgot to mention that although i know that i am a weaver i'm in constant doubt about my textile work. This piece for example i'm still debating whether to stop here and leave it as is or give voice to the baroque in me and keep on adding stitching and some beads to the background.

BTW can you find the representation of all the categories i listed? After all this activity let's play and have some fun :)

neki desu

May TIF

Never fails. Spring gets me doing twenty five things at once. And this year's spring is as if it were on steroids. Such is the excitement generated at stitching fingers and the weaving group.
May's TIF is progressing along. A bit hard to conceptualize my idea posted here But i finally came up with an idea and a layout.

i'm using a piece of cotton fabric that i rusted last summer as background with rectangular pieces laid on it.Each rectangle represents an item of my list and the layout will be give or take like the one presented here. Nothing earth shattering, but i think it's working.
Still have some work to do to call it finished.

neki desu