summer flew by but i have something to show for it

i was drinking a cup of tea this morning with husband out on the terrace. the sun is shining, but you can already feel the nip of fall in the air. where did the summer go so fast? one of the things i like about weaving is that i can see where the time has gone in a physical object. we made this rainbow sherbet warp on june 29th and yesterday, i clipped it off the loom. i spent 6:39:49 yesterday clipping and hemming and now i have 21 finished rainbow sherbet tea towels to show for my summer.

i track my weaving time using the toggl app and these 21 towels took up 75:56:54 hours and minutes of my summer. some days, i just wove for 20 minutes, other days, i spent hours. i tried different color combinations and stripes of different widths. i looked at madras plaids and tried to duplicate them. 

i worked intuitively, going where my mood took me, color-wise and complexity-wise. some are very simple with big fields of one color and maybe a single subtle stripe at each end, some have many colors. some are mostly blues and greens and others are mostly pinks and oranges. they are a record of the days and the moods of my summer, woven into cloth.

the rainbow sherbet tones are all the same - summery and light, but there are no two alike. each one is unique. they complement one another, but are each complete in their own right. weaving is such a metaphor for life. time and threads woven into something useful and beautiful. 

even olga approves. and as summer winds down, i will turn back to my taylor swift weaving project. i have to decide whether 1989 or red is next. what do you think?