Friday, November 16, 2007

Western Saddle Blankets

These western style saddle blankets are the first two of a series. They are woven with three colors; the campo (field) color changes while the border colors remain the same in dark brown and natural white.


"Saddle Blanket in Three Colors" is the first of the series



"Red Hot Saddle Blanket" is the second in the series


The two saddle blankets are similar in style and border design. The campo color is different in both and will be in the continuing series.

These are for sale at the prict of $325.00 each. Please send an email for purchasing instructions. Thank you.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Wahla!

I finished the pieces I started here they are, this is what my brain came up with.

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Day Trip to the Big City of Albuquerque

My sister and I took a day trip to Albuquerque. She drove so I was assigned to take pictures. Without slowing down or stopping, I managed to get some good ones. This is a the beautiful and majestice Sangre de Cristo mountains at Santa Fe that add to the beauty of the capitol city.

The Sangre de Cristo Mountains at Santa Fe taken facing North from Albuquerque

This is a picture of the descent from Santa Fe to Cochiti Pueblo also called La Abajada.


La bajada from Santa Fe to Albuquerque with Rio Grande Bosque

The next photo was taken to show that the concrete barriers holding tons of earth along Hwy285/84 is slipping and soon may crash onto the highway. Better get some engineers out there soon.

A little problem at Exit 599 that needs some attention

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Tying One On

I finally got into low gear and started on the loom, it does take a little coercing, but once I'm on the loom it's hard to stop. My Tia Eppie Archuleta said something like this..........I'll stay up all night 'till I get a piece : )
I decided to break up the tela (warp) on the 38" loom into two smaller weavings and a 5" band that will probably end up as coasters.

I also decided to show the steps I take to getting a piece, or two or three.

Step one: tie tela warp
each weaving has double string edges
to help mis-shaping
Step 1b: turn on some good music
Step 2: pick your colors
Step 3: make canillas, used in lanzadera for the solid parts, cadejos used for the design part, and butterfy used same as cadejo, but doesn't roll off the telar loom.

Step 3: start your weavings
my viewpoint