To sum up about Convergence - it was a whole heck of a lot of fun. The second two classes that I took were about color theory - no pictures, really, to post, but they were good classes, and kind of confirmed for me that I do better than I think I do with the color stuff... In the first, we did a series of exercises with hues (setting up a grey scale and then choosing colors from a huge amount of color chips to go with each hue on the scale - a great exercise, and, I found, a lot easier when I just went with my gut and *didn't* use the little grey scale finder that the teacher gave to us). In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have signed up for two classes on color theory - they were both very good, and either one on it's own would have been sufficient (the teacher for the second one, Ruby Leslie, brought a huge amount of her very fun samples with her to illustrate how colors work together - also fantastic!).
The exhibits were amazing - I didn't get to see as many off-campus as I would have wished, including, I'm ashamed to admit it, missing Kathy Roig's piece in the Weave and Resist exhibit (wah! lame!). But the exhibits that were in the Conference center were a lot of fun to explore... And the yardage exhibit took the cake. They hung the pieces from the center of a rotunda in the conference center - really gorgeous, so you could get the full impact of them length of cloth, or go up to the second floor and see them up close.
I've been playing with some really yummy variegated yarn that I found at Convergence lately:
In family news, Ms. B started preschool today...
At any rate, for anyone who has actually been wondering - sorry about the long break, I hopefully it won't happen again. And very many thanks to anyone taking the time to read this now, after all this time... I hope all is well with all of you!
4 comments:
So I saw you posted and grabbed a blanket, some cookies and milk, and cuddled into the computer chair to read......yep....just like a good book! Convergence sounds like it rocked and I can only imagine what that yardage looked like! I'm also thrilled to hear that your working on another piece for Handwoven!!! You go girl!!! Oh.....and I really think that they should make glow in the dark p.j.s for adults;)
so good to have you back. love those yummy colours too...
Welcome back!
I love the 2nd stole the best. Oh, those colors are gorgeous.
Glow in the dark yarn, now that would be good!!
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