This is a typical Jemez Mountain Morning.. Always very inspirational for me..

This tapestry is called Missing You.. My wolf would only howel when I wasn't home.. This is dedicated to him..

Notice how bad my tension is.. I am guilty of struggling with the beginning of all my tapestries.. If you have a suggestion on how to remedy the problem please let me know.. I am considering dividing up the warp in smaller sections to start the heading and hem. I almost never have this problem with my smaller peices..

Winter in the Jemez Mountains

This beautiful new morning sunrise graced my bath New Years morning.. I am going to design a tapestry with it.. Love to all of you this 2011... Shelley

Life in the Jemez Mountains

Hi everyone,, It has been forever since I updated this blog.. I am going to try to be more active here.. My summer has been wonderful.. I took Kathe Todd-Hooker's tapestry class while she was in Albuquerque for Convergence.. It was wonderful meeting and learning from one of my tapestry idols.



So here is my most recent piece that I wove this month.. It is a wedding gift for a friend.. She is native american.. Her totem is a Macaw and her husbands is Coyote.. While I was weaving it coyotes kept coming too close to my home.. I would not have been surprised if a parrot appeared out of no where..



I used soumack on the tail of the coyote and the beak of the parrot.. And of course eccentric weaving.. The title of the piece is "DREAMING TOGETHER"..

I planned out the bird and coyote.. The rest of the weaving was done spontaneously allowing the sky to do what it wanted.. Oh,,, I also used twining to start ,, and sewed all my long slits together for integrity of the piece..

Just wanted to share with my friends here and now.. Please feel free to comment or get in touch with me via shelley.quiner@gmail.com