Gallery day
Oct. 10th, 2009 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoArrived 10 am on the square, as planned, though the gallery would not open until 11. Air temperature was about 35F, and we decided not to spin in the open due to potentially frozen hands. So we adjourned to Starbucks for 45 minutes. Returned to the Arts Center just a few minutes before gallery staff unlocked the outside door.
I stayed for an hour, without actually doing any spinning. I found myself explaining things to some visitors, offering some pointers on cotton spinning with a charkha to another guild member who has just acquired the tool, and then in a brief discussion with a weaver friend who had picked up my prize from the weaving show.
There was amusement over the prize. It was two balls of woven ribbon yarn made of "corn fiber" and they were... bright purple. However, I have an idea forming. Rumor has it that someone else got two similar balls in orange, and I've learned that another member got five skeins of moss green yarn. I'm going to try to engineer a partial swap so that each of us ends up with yarn in all three colors. Green, purple, and orange form a secondary triad on the color wheel, so they should be harmonious if combined suitable. Our challenge will be to each weave something for next year's show using all three yarns. This could turn out either enlightening or at least amusing.
Went to have lunch with Gary and his fellow musicians, who had played a very frigid three hour set in the gazebo on the square, paid for in part by the farmers' market. Then came back for my three hour shift as gallery watcher. Had a few visitors, though not as many as while the farmers' market was running in the morning. A couple asked detailed questions about the works and techniques, which is always more interesting than the usual "Why is the price so high?" or "Why are so many things not for sale?" questions.
Back tomorrow for the reception in the afternoon. That's only two hours long, and I should be demonstrating some spinning technique or other, though I haven't decided what.
Going to be cold tonight. A low of 25F is predicted, which will kill the mosquitoes and other insects, as well as most surviving garden plants. On the plus side, I expect it may give us some brilliant foliage colors, since most of the trees are still well greened out and haven't started dropping a lot of leaves.
I stayed for an hour, without actually doing any spinning. I found myself explaining things to some visitors, offering some pointers on cotton spinning with a charkha to another guild member who has just acquired the tool, and then in a brief discussion with a weaver friend who had picked up my prize from the weaving show.
There was amusement over the prize. It was two balls of woven ribbon yarn made of "corn fiber" and they were... bright purple. However, I have an idea forming. Rumor has it that someone else got two similar balls in orange, and I've learned that another member got five skeins of moss green yarn. I'm going to try to engineer a partial swap so that each of us ends up with yarn in all three colors. Green, purple, and orange form a secondary triad on the color wheel, so they should be harmonious if combined suitable. Our challenge will be to each weave something for next year's show using all three yarns. This could turn out either enlightening or at least amusing.
Went to have lunch with Gary and his fellow musicians, who had played a very frigid three hour set in the gazebo on the square, paid for in part by the farmers' market. Then came back for my three hour shift as gallery watcher. Had a few visitors, though not as many as while the farmers' market was running in the morning. A couple asked detailed questions about the works and techniques, which is always more interesting than the usual "Why is the price so high?" or "Why are so many things not for sale?" questions.
Back tomorrow for the reception in the afternoon. That's only two hours long, and I should be demonstrating some spinning technique or other, though I haven't decided what.
Going to be cold tonight. A low of 25F is predicted, which will kill the mosquitoes and other insects, as well as most surviving garden plants. On the plus side, I expect it may give us some brilliant foliage colors, since most of the trees are still well greened out and haven't started dropping a lot of leaves.
