Sunday, August 27, 2006
Penland
I can't think of a clever title. Penland was absolutely extraordinary. If you love working with your art/craft, please do yourself a favor and take a class here if they offer something that interests you. And it better interest you A LOT because you spend 8-12 hours a day at it. Actual class time is probably 6 or 7 hours a day, but the studios are open 24/7 and believe me, you will want to be there "working". I say "working" because it was so much fun. We decided we were either 1) in some time-warp continuum, because time went by so fast (lunchtime! didn't we just have breakfast? No, wait, that was 4 hours ago) or 2) dead and in heaven. We had a discussion about this prior to one field trip, and decided that if we couldn't leave the campus, like we were on some mobius road that kept bringing us back to Penland, then we were dead. This was my view coming into the back of the textiles building every morning. I love this picture. I may have to dig out my watercolors. Note the open door. No AC anywhere. This will become significant as the week rolls on.
I took a yarn design class from Deb Menz. We spent the first week painting commercial yarn, and unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of that. The second week was color blending of commercially dyed top, and then spinning a yarn. She brought 70 colors.
More fiber. I was at Penland when the East Coast was baking in 105 degree heat. We probably only got up to 95 or so. We kept telling ourselves, "at least we're not in glass" or "at lease we're not in iron" . We were only on the 3rd floor in the dye kitchen. Remember, no AC. It did cool down enough at night so you needed a sheet and very thin bedspread.
Here is a miniscule portion of Deb's samples. She has boxes and boxes of yummy yarn.
Here is my painted yarn. I still have a lot of spinning to do for the blended yarn. You can see a few balls of roving to the right.
Penland has a lot of outdoor art work. This is a retaining wall, decorated with ceramic work. Iron railings were graceful and decorated with scrollwork, leaves, hands, etc. It was all lovely. William Morris would have been proud.
There are other smaller works, too. Mrs. Felt Troll visits the castle.
Naptime for baby.
Mr. Troll says thanks for stopping by.
Come back to Penland real soon!
I took a yarn design class from Deb Menz. We spent the first week painting commercial yarn, and unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of that. The second week was color blending of commercially dyed top, and then spinning a yarn. She brought 70 colors.
More fiber. I was at Penland when the East Coast was baking in 105 degree heat. We probably only got up to 95 or so. We kept telling ourselves, "at least we're not in glass" or "at lease we're not in iron" . We were only on the 3rd floor in the dye kitchen. Remember, no AC. It did cool down enough at night so you needed a sheet and very thin bedspread.
Here is a miniscule portion of Deb's samples. She has boxes and boxes of yummy yarn.
Here is my painted yarn. I still have a lot of spinning to do for the blended yarn. You can see a few balls of roving to the right.
Penland has a lot of outdoor art work. This is a retaining wall, decorated with ceramic work. Iron railings were graceful and decorated with scrollwork, leaves, hands, etc. It was all lovely. William Morris would have been proud.
There are other smaller works, too. Mrs. Felt Troll visits the castle.
Naptime for baby.
Mr. Troll says thanks for stopping by.
Come back to Penland real soon!# posted by Ellen @ 7:07 AM 
