Thank You!

Blending color using multiple wefts on Elizabeth Buckley's blog tour stop

Thank you for following and making American Tapestry Alliance's Tapestry Unlimited Blog Tour so much fun.  I had a blast hosting it and organizing it. All your comments and feedback have been incredibly encouraging, and it looks like we won't get away with not doing something like this again at American Tapestry Alliance. We were so thrilled to see that so many of you put some of these techniques into practice already! I even had two people show up to my monthly knitting group with PVC looms ready to learn the basics. Happy Janna.

Here are all the links to the tour stops. They will be here for you to access as long as the respective blog exists, so if you weren't able to follow along enjoy.

Stop 1: Vancouver Yarn: The basics: warping up and weaving open-shed style
Stop 2: Rebecca Mezoff: Using irregular hatching to blend color
Stop 3: Terry Olson: Weaving slits to create vertical lines
Stop 4: Mirrix Looms: Weaving shapes: Triangles, Squares and Circles
Stop 5: Elizabeth Buckley: Using multiple wefts to blend color
Stop 6: Sarah Swett: The value of Tapestry
 
Extra links from our bloggers

• If your warps are getting too close together or too far apart in some sections read this post by Rebecca about weft tension.
• Learn how to finish weft and warp ends in these video tutorials by Janna Maria Vallee: here and here
• Learn how to make a half-hitch knot while warping here on Rebecca's Youtube Channel
• Elizabeth Buckley talks about considerations to take when deciding how to space your warp threads here
• Mirrix explains the basic principals behind tapestry weaving here
• Sarah Swett has a fun and easy 'zine on how to make a tapestry bag using all sides of a box as a loom here
• AND there is an impressive list of instructional videos by various instructors from around the web here on American Tapestry Alliance's website: http://americantapestryalliance.org/tapestry-weaving-technique-videos/

Janna Maria Vallee

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P.S.
​This blog tour is in celebration of ATA's annual unjuried exhibition which I am chairing this year. Tapestry Unlimited; 11th International, Unjuried Small Format exhibition is open to all weavers. We are expecting upwards of 250 participants who will show their work at the Milwaukee Public Library this upcoming summer.

Tapestry Unlimited hangs at the Milwaukee Public Library from July 26 – August 11, 2016 with a reception from 12-2 on August 5th.

​American Tapestry Alliance is a nonprofit organization that provides programming for tapestry weavers around the world, including exhibitions (like Tapestry Unlimited), both juried and unjuried, in museums, art centers and online, along with exhibition catalogues. They offer workshops, lectures, one-on-one mentoring and online educational articles as well as awards, including scholarships, membership grants, an international student award, and the Award of Excellence. They also put out a quarterly newsletter, monthly eNews & eKudos and CODA, an annual digest. Members benefit from personalized artists pages on the ATA website, online exhibitions, educational articles, access to scholarships and more.