Dec 6

I'm happy. I have now completed either 3 1/2 or 4 1/2 panels. I'd have to unwind the warp to be sure. I'd like to finish this panel and one more and then do a doublecloth section with the silk/wool weave by itself on the top and the cotton weave by itself on the bottom (with the "invasions" by the alternative fibers included in each) so that it will be clear how I designed the piece with three different weaves in it.

Time is short, though. The looms will be used for classes at the first of the year and the workshops shut down at the end of this week. I think I will have to remove what is left of my warp from the loom on Friday. One does what one can do in the time available.

I will keep the thrums and the remains of the warp and do other things with them. I'm imagining a knitted panel in which I use each thrum in order, but I don't think that will be possible. I'm also thinking of a textury knit with one of the fibers used to accent the texture.

What makes the maximum possible is that I have enough tutoring students to be able to afford to quit the part-time job I have been doing. This allows me to think beyond the AA2A, to begin to join artist organisations and make the effort to apply for arts jobs. Maybe even to volunteer if the places I had investigated volunteering for haven't decided I'm a complete flake. Seemed like every time I set myself up to do a volunteer project, I had to give it up in favor of something, anything, that would provide income.

I just got my first post card announcement of an exhibit opening. This is significant because it is the first time I have been informed of a show before it happened. I'm beginning to make the lists of invitees to openings. This is what I need and want, to meet other artists, to make friends and acquaintances, to have a social life, to have others to bounce ideas off of and to be the reciever of those bounces. to be involved before things like the local fringe festival open.