Our Mimi, Laquita Mitchell, has a gorgeous voice, true and rich and almost lustrous. Gerald Powers, as Rudolfo, was also very good although when Ms. Mitchell was singing my eyes were glued to her. The melodies, familiar as they are, sounded fresh and were very affecting. The evening flew by.
The workshop began this morning with the arrival of three sisters who are weavers. One lives north of Salt Lake City in Bountiful, one lives in Idaho and the third lives in Arizona. They are clearly very good friends as well as sisters and eager to learn. I am always eager to share what I know and when those two eagernesses meet, it is wonderful.
We started with three kinds of drafting (from structural drafts to profile drafting) and then turned a draft and by the end of class had covered the delights of plain weave, including how to make a structural seersucker and were very deep into twills when the class ended for the day. While we dealt a lot with structure, color was never very far from my thoughts as I explained in the examples I had pulled to illustrate our work together why I had chosen the colors I did and how they worked with the weave structures chosen to enhance each other.
With their premission I took a photo I will include here. Left to right they are Dahrl, Terry and Merrily (doesn't her name fit the big smile on her face?). In the back ground you will notice a doll made by Jennifer Gould and a rug by Michael Rohde.
After they left I got my hair cut--I wonder if they will notice?--and then I came home to prepare our lunch for tomorrow.
As it turned out I missed both my exercise time and my web design class last night. There was simply too much to do and then I was almost too excited to sleep! Tonight I will do better.
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