Category: ADACAD

First Place – Functional – Convergence 2026 After weaving the cloth in 2025, (see the design process here) I set it aside to have eye surgeries and then other projects. I finally put my new sewing machine to the test, finished the book and submitted it for Convergence 2026 Functional Textiles – Lagniappe. I had…

First Place (2-peat) -Yardage at Convergence 2026 Again I took the bait for an extension in the deadlines for Convergence Yardage competition. In 2024 I took the extension week to design and make a polychrome summer and winter design on my Megado of sunflowers and went on to win. This time, I took that time…

Double width very low sew dress wins 3rd Place in Wearable Art at Convergence. This dress is a series of “what ifs”. The design is a bunch of supersized Mardi Gras beads flowing across the fabric. I designed an individual bead and then used Illustrator to make a pattern brush that I then applied to…

I love this image. It was taken by Marie Matthews in Tunisia. She is my watercolor teacher and is really generous to share her photography as inspiration for her students. A bunch of rowdy 5 year olds were singing their national anthem in a square. I’ve been working on this image as a weaving and…

I’ve had a little hiatus from weaving as I have undergone several weeks of eye surgeries. I celebrated a good report from my retina doc with weaving for an animal loving friend. All of her animals are black so they presented a photoshop challenge but, all in all, they turned out pretty well. I have…

I had a lot of ideas brewing while waiting for my TC2 to arrive. One of them was thinking through how I would weave a book – washable, durable, maybe with pockets and zippers and… you get the idea. As I got to the end of my black and white cottolin warp I decided to…

You know how, sometimes, you get a song stuck in your head? For me, that song has been The Preamble to the Constitution from Schoolhouse Rock!. Every time some new craziness has hit the news that song just starts playing in my head. After a couple of months of this I decided to try to…

Having successfully tied on, see previous post, I jumped in to interpret another watercolor painting as weaving. This time the subject was the 99 year old (she is now 100!) mother of a friend from a photo taken by her granddaughter during an eclipse. I was so inspired by the look of delight on her…