I do this every year. I keep a sort of “log” of the highlights throughout the year, focusing on tapestry. Following in that tradition are my reflections of the (mostly) tapestry highlights of 2024.

January began with a Finish!

… Rising. You can read more about it by clicking on the image or links.

From early on, this weaving was destined to go to my daughter, so I spent February getting it ready to mail, hoping it would arrive just before my visit in March. I had finished off the piece to hang horizontally as in the photo above. But I had sent her a second image of it turned on the side before mailing out and I kind of wished I’d prepared it to hang that way instead. I think maybe she does, too, but she seemed to love it when it finally arrived anyway!

I also finished a little piece I’d had on a loom for about a year. It’s what I consider one of my “Woodles” - it was originally begun in a workshop as a color study for one of my seed pod designs inspired by the Wild Blue Indigo plant.

March was a very eventful month to put it lightly. It began with my wonderful trip to visit my daughter in the Seattle area which included the side trip to visit Terry and Christine on Vancouver Island. I wrote about both here and here. Below are some of my favorite images from the trip.

I also did some Murmurations color sampling and other weaving while away, but for obvious reasons, not much tapestry was done this month - or the next for that matter.

Because the trip was followed by… lots of downtime after tripping on a morning walk 3 days after my return home- and breaking my right wrist.

So I’ll fast forward here to April. Luckily, I got my cast off and a wrist brace put on just before my trip to teach at the Weavers Guild of Rochester in Rochester, NY.

May was kind of a blur, 3 steps forward and 2 steps back most of the month - once I could finally weave again. I was determined to put all my attention into weaving my section for the Murmurations project. In June the weaving took off and on the 26th, I completed my piece.

A big chunk of July was centered around finishing this piece to get mailed off in time to be photographed with the rest of the group. And I had the Convergence trip which I wrote about several times. Below is my sample (woodle?) from the Rebecca Smith workshop and further down a detail from the Sue Lawty one.

My sample from the Beads and Wire workshop taught by Rebecca Smith at Convergence

August was another special month for me. Lots of trouble-shooting and back and forth conversations with other “Starlings” from the Murmurations project. (Thanks, especially to Minna for all your help!)

I was determined to get my piece finished and in the mail before heading to Arizona to spend a week with my close friend, Carol Ward. We taught a workshop together for her local guild in Prescott, the Mountain Spinners and Weavers Guild.

According to my photo library, September was fairly uneventful. At least in the tapestry arena. I did start a new weaving in early October on the Tissart just before traveling yet again. This time to California for a workshop with the Southern California Weavers Guild.

I wrote about both these workshops here.

Somewhere after this, I also finished the sample I’d begun in the Sue Lawty workshop- detail below.

November was primarily spent prepping for the Holiday Arts Market.

At some point during the year, probably when I was recovering from the broken wrist, I had given up my routine of weaving on small looms in the evening. One evening I picked up a Hockett loom that had an empty warp on it- I can’t even remember how long ago I’d warped it. The sett was slightly wider than I usually weave so whatever I’d had planned for it had been discarded early on.

I guess December has mostly been a time of quiet reflection.

My (Mostly) Tapestry Highlights of 2024