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Today, I met the other members of  Tapestry Weavers South  at  Penland School of Craft .  We were fortunate enough to visit Tommye Scanlon  and  Bhakti Ziek's  weaving class.  Their lucky students are immersed in an eight week concentration of tapestry and floor loom weaving techniques. We shared our work with the students. Genie talks about the inspiration for her glowing people. One of the students  hard at work. Meg gets some insight into this student's use of a colorful warp. A tapestry sample. Tommye discussing Holly's tapestry. The class diary, each student is assigned a color and they weave a small bit each day.  They insert a slip of paper for those days they are out of the studio. The dye studio upstairs. In case you doubt the magic of Penland, this is the hand tiled bathroom wall.

"-You ain't get nothing for staying low, lazy.  The world only tremble at the feet of the few craziest doers ever lived."  Olawale Daniel When I am faced with self doubt I procrastinate.   I knew I wanted to complete a tapestry for the  Tapestry Weavers South  show at the  Yadkin Valley Fiber Room .  I even posted the cartoon, chose the yarns and warped my 22 inch Mirrix loom.  All set right.  Uh, nope. I kept putting off starting, clicking down the weeks.  No problem, five weeks is plenty of time...Tapestry is incredibly slow especially for this beginner.  The calendar screamed three weeks and I knew my original plan was too ambitious. As I procrastinated, I wasn't totally idle.  I thought about the fierce resistance I was experiencing and what was behind it.  I wanted to do a tapestry I could be proud of and was having trouble picturing my weaving  hanging in the same space with my more experienced friends.  Wh...