2010, and 2011 goals

I didn’t do too badly with last year’s goals, as it turns out:

• Get married!!
• Finish weaving and sewing my wedding dress, using couture techniques
• Exhibit the wedding dress at CNCH and Complex Weavers
• More studies of weave structures
• Play with color
• Write a few more weaving articles
• Finish the cashmere coat, hopefully with more assistance from Sharon Bell
• Lose that 20 lbs I wanted to lose last year

In fact I got pretty much everything but the last two finished.  I will work on those in the coming year.

Now, what do I want to do in 2011?  I think my creative goals are:

General goals:

• Learn to draw/continue studying fine arts
• Begin working in some surface design techniques, and think about how to apply them in the context of handwoven fabric
• Start teaching; submit at least one teaching proposal for Complex Weavers
• Continue my dye studies, focusing on Cibacron F fiber-reactive dyes

Specific projects:

• Finish the cashmere coat, the cherry blossom jacket, and (maybe) the qiviut shawl
• Dye several sets of gradated colors, in 30/2 silk.
• Dye a full set of two-color combinations of Cibacron F

There! I think that’s a reasonable set of goals for the new year. I’m sure other projects will unfold in time.