Still drawing for the cartoon

Last week got really busy and this week I've been working on a door curtain that is full of appliqued leaves for my daughter's birthday present. But I have still found some time to draw for my cartoon and am hopefully generating enough ideas to keep me weaving for some time. My focus has changed some because last week I found out about the unjuried small format tapestry exhibit that will be hosted by the American Tapestry Alliance in conjunction with Convergence in Grand Rapids, MI, next summer. Because it is an unjuried show, there is a great deal of energy in the tapestries and participants are both established tapestry artists and those who are just beginning and everything in between. I've never seen the exhibit in person but have several of the catalogs and just really enjoy the vast array of tapestries. The size can be no larger than 10" x 10" or 100 square inches and the application to enter can be found at the ATA website, www.americantapestryalliance.com. The application is due Jan. 15, 2006 and the tapestry will have to be there in March or April sometime. So there is a good amount of time left to participate even if you are just hearing about this now for the first time. The more tapestries there are, the more interesting the exhibit so I hope that many of you are thinking about entering. I entered a tapestry in the Vancouver exhibit almost 4 years ago and it was a great experience. This is the tapestry shown here, On the Wind.

Yesterday they finally started back on working on our condo building. They had to finish the one ahead of ours for closings yesterday but now the workers are back on ours. They were putting on the roof trusses with a crane but had to quit because it got too windy and it was too windy to work at all on that today too. I can see what they are doing on our building from our upstairs window here so I can keep track of the progress. Once it is roofed and closed in, I won't know what is happening. It is hard to believe I have to be ready to move again in early February if the building stays on schedule.