Reminders

I have been seriously delinquent in posting to this blog recently. I have many excuses but none worthy of writing down. I was reminded yesterday that this blog is important and necessary (if not to anyone else) to me.

My local guild, the South Coast Weavers and Spinners Guild, hosted a presentation by Sarah Jackson, noted weaver, textile artist and member of the guild. Sarah gave a talk on her path as a textile artist and showed slides of her work. The two most important things she said to me were to always label and document your work. She photographs everything and writes her own blog.

As a busy mom with not a lot of time to do my own textile work I always think that I never finish anything. My original goal for this blog was to keep track of my UFO’s this year. To finish more projects than I start. As I said above, I was reminded yesterday that this blog is actually my documentation. That writing and photographing my work is important to me to show my progression as a textile artist. It is necessary to show myself that I actually do finish quite a number of things. 

The documentation does not have to be in a public blog of course. But I find that there is some accountability when I post here. I get feed back from my fellow textile artists. It is fulfilling in the way that show and tell time is at guild meetings.

As a side note, my fellow guild members have loads of talent. Including established and published artists. It is intimidating sometimes to go to the guild meetings but also inspiring. In no way do I include myself in the same class as these artists yet :-) but it is very cool to hang out with them.