Bristol Whales and some weaving

Recently I passed these amazing whale sculptures in the Millenium Square in Bristol, the waves are made out of recyled plastic water bottles, read more about here - bristolwhales.tumblr.com

 Last week I went on a wonderful two day course with the talented Susie Gillespie in
Devon www.susiegillespie.com. Her work is a mix of fabric and tapestry weaving, this is the piece I made,
I have to say I am very pleased with it and have learnt lots of new techniques to incorporate into my own work.
There were four people on the course, one local woman and the rest of us stayed us stayed in
 beautiful accomadation in the barn. I would call Susie's style of decor minimalist rustic, anyway very 
comfortable with linen sheets on the beds and all mod cons.
Ok blogger is acting a bit strange, hope this all appears.

Trouble Brewing

I am about a quarter way up a new piece of weaving, sorry no images until its in the exhibition. I am using paper yarn, it looks great like a Lloyd Loom chair but its causing me some problems. My selvedges are gradually creeping inwards (how unusual) but as the yarn has no flexibility its really hard
to manipulate and one of the warp threads has already broken.
Note to self, don't try out experimental pieces when they are for an exhibition and you have deadlines.

Progress and learning new things

After reading Annabel Rainbow http://grumpyandmad.blogspot.co.uk/  extremely useful entry on copyright I have finally managed to upload a photo with a copyright symbol on it by using Picasa. How pleased I am with myself, thing is will I be able to do it again? Lets hope so, it has taken me a whole day to get this far.
Anyway I am getting a move on now, next time I show this it will be completed and ready for hanging I hope.