Sherri Woodard Coffey

Some may remember my sad effort to weave letters several months ago. I readily admit that I was trying several things I’d never done before, but really ….! Definitely in need of more practice.

I got the most recent issue of Handwoven* on Sunday, and what do I see?

An article by Sarah Swett on weaving her grocery list. Of course, everything Sarah does is wonderful, and this is no exception. Wish I could show a picture here instead of the poor result of my weaving. I knew at the time that I wanted to try weaving letters again, but now I have more inspiration and few hints on how it should be done. In the small picture below you can see some of the tapestry letters in the center just to the right of the circle in the middle of the page. If you click on the Handwoven* link, it will take you to this page.

*Correction: The links currently will take you to the “buy” page for the digital edition.

By the time this is posted, the plan is to have the weaving of piece two, in the series of three, finished. I took a picture of the work in progress with an interesting result. Below the breast beam, where the current piece hangs out during the weaving, the first piece is also visible on the cloth beam. The third piece is still being tweaked in design and color choices. As aside, my new camera is wonderful! The most important criteria for me is color, and the pictures that I take with this camera do not seem to need any fiddly stuff done to get the color right. A true pleasure. Now, if I could just learn what all the buttons are for!

Recently while thumbing through an issue of Martha Stewart’s Living magazine (maybe October?), I noticed a photo of an apartment hallway lined with these prints of Albers’s paintings. Here is a photo of the apartment in progress and below the final result. They make quite a statement.

The online version of Panache magazine has been posted. The print version will be delivered with Friday’s newspaper. Below is the blurb that goes with the magazine, including all of its links.

Check out our November issue featuring tips on where to pick up the best baked goods for holiday dinners and get-togethers. Get decorating ideas for revamping your kitchen. See Susan Huston’s fashion tips for turning office wardrobe into glamorous evening garb. Make plans to attend the Elvis-themed If I Can Dream Concert, benefiting the Summer Santa program. Learn what to plant right now in our fall gardening story. Read about what to do and see in Asheville, N.C. Get to know artisan Sherri Woodard Coffey, a local weaver who makes gorgeous handwoven rugs and tapestries.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/592#ixzz1314UQo1o

It seems that our family started a new tradition last year. I had a free subscription to Country Living magazine, and when the Halloween issue arrived, I was in hog, hmmm…Halloween heaven! So many ideas to try out with simple, easily found materials. This year I made a special effort to buy the Halloween issue before I traveled to Charlotte for a visit last week. The above gaggle of ghosts is made with those fold out honeycomb bells, construction paper facial features, and then covered with cheese cloth. The boys and I had experimented with paper cutting before and were excited to see these spiders. You can get the templates for the designs online. They’ve made it really easy!

The fallen leaves would have made another great paper cut out like the spiders. A new take on cutting out paper dolls, something my grandmother was excellent at. My mother remembers her cutting out amazing things when she was a child, as do all of us grandchildren. You can read my mother’s remembrances here. She’s a very good writer.

Then, of course, there are the Halloween cookies to make. This year the whole process went much smoother. Amazing what a difference another year of maturity can make! A little fall gardening was being accomplished also. Here’s just one picture of a beautiful mum plant waiting its turn to be planted.

An unidentified man examines part of a mosaic, measureing around 9,700 square feet (900 square meters), in ruins of an 8th-century Islamic palace outside the West bank town of Jericho, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. Visitors to ancient Jericho are getting a rare glimpse at what archaeologists say is the largest carpet mosaic in the Middle East. AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed.

JERICHO (AP).- Visitors to ancient Jericho got a rare glimpse Sunday of a massive 1,200-year-old carpet mosaic measuring nearly 900 square meters (9,700 square feet), making it one of the largest in the Middle East. More ….

If you could actually click on this image, the information below would pop up.

What is an Art Attack?

Art Attack is a city-wide guerilla marketing campaign being launched by the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. Utilizing creative groups and individuals throughout the area, the campaign was created to promote the new online calendar being launched by the Arts Council, www.worthgoing.com. Throughout the campaign, Tarrant County can expect to see a number of artistic demonstrations that are completely unique and out of the box.

One of the Art Attacks includes a group of Tape People. Two of them are shown on this page. You can vote on the Tape People to win by going here. These were all designed and constructed by members of Art Educators of North Texas. Click on the link to see all of the Tape People. They are really quite wonderful.

Below is a YouTube video about their project. They say that they used a mile of packaging tape for this project.