tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post136007231150503890..comments2024-03-28T17:44:17.403-07:00Comments on The Weaver of Grass: Finding a Voice.The Weaver of Grasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-17228249686129812612009-11-28T12:13:23.277-08:002009-11-28T12:13:23.277-08:00Interesting to see different styles of handwriting...Interesting to see different styles of handwriting. Yours looks creative, elegant, confident. You come away from the margin. Does that mean you're progressing? Probably, yes. Good luck with the project.Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-87619206797305031152009-11-24T12:24:31.507-08:002009-11-24T12:24:31.507-08:00I would imagine that because of your essay and poe...I would imagine that because of your essay and poetry writing your textile voice has changed just as that work has grown also. That the voice will be different, but also much richer.Midlife Roadtripperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700277803842883251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-16302457418446460092009-11-24T10:23:27.036-08:002009-11-24T10:23:27.036-08:00Thank you so much for all your comments - they are...Thank you so much for all your comments - they are so interesting to read through. Obviously some of you have had similar problems and have overcome them, so I live in hopes. I think I need to sit back and think rather than rushing to get sewing again.<br />A trouble shared is a trouble halved - springs to mind.<br />You are wonderful bloggers all.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-4737372418230014942009-11-24T08:57:53.098-08:002009-11-24T08:57:53.098-08:00I am impressed by your creative voice in so many d...I am impressed by your creative voice in so many different areas!You must be a very fascinating person to get to know! <br /><br />I have written some poems through the years and they are all over on little scraps of paper, some saved here on the computer, some published in little church booklets like they have for Lent or Christmas, in drawers, in betweem pages of a book. I see I need to get organized but knowing me I probably will not.Berniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10189300487828240620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-9268611772032475792009-11-24T05:29:35.824-08:002009-11-24T05:29:35.824-08:00I love your hare poem, Weaver, and your hand writi...I love your hare poem, Weaver, and your hand writing. I have difficulty enough keeping a typed copy of all my efforts, but I try to do this by assigning each poem a number, containing the year in which it was written. I have a separate (but similar) system for Haiku. I also TRY (but do not always succeed) to keep notes about each poem, and why I wrote it. It is surprising how often one forgets that particular snatch of conversation, news article, sunset etc. as new poems continue to come. <br /><br />As for the matter of voice, well, as a left handed individualist, I have been smiling at some of the quotes <a href="http://www.quotegarden.com/be-self.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />Thank you, Weaver, as always for sharing so much with us and for giving us food for thought. I await your poetry cover with great interest.Caroline Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05203454486693014969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-42765938906905626472009-11-24T03:58:51.372-08:002009-11-24T03:58:51.372-08:00Hello Weaver,
I think Linda's idea of finding...Hello Weaver,<br /><br />I think Linda's idea of finding a theme from your poems could be a good starting point. Your hare poem is great from what I can read. Does it continue over the page?<br /><br />I read a lot of poems each week of my Read, Write, Poem friends. Although I admire many of them I know I couldn't write like they do. Although everything we experience is bound to have an influence on us, I'm sure we all create in our own style.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00861397533660827678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-29714082166424238112009-11-24T03:15:11.318-08:002009-11-24T03:15:11.318-08:00Hey Weaver. What a wonderful posting.
To me fi...Hey Weaver. What a wonderful posting. <br /><br />To me finding your voice is the essence of all creativity and I too had not thought about it much beyond the spoken and written word. <br /><br />Maybe it's a bit like finding your eyes and hands if you are an artist, into textiles, design, a painter, sculptor etc, and finding your ears if you're a musician. <br /><br />I often go back to one of my favourites, Virginia Woolf. She gives me courage when it comes to the business of finding my voice, however different it might be from hers.<br /><br />Woolf writes:<br />So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison. (A Room of One's Own)<br /><br />By the way, I think you have a distinctive and unique voice when it comes to your writing and poetry. No doubt about it, you've found it in your blog. As for your textile sense you might need to get back into practice to find it again. <br /><br />It must be hard to be so multi-talented, says I, who can only write and has not one artistic and practical bone in her body.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-73201500685597077592009-11-24T01:32:06.647-08:002009-11-24T01:32:06.647-08:00I have had almost a parallel experience to yours. ...I have had almost a parallel experience to yours. I only began to write regularly when I began to blog. Until then I went long periods imagining that I had writers block. The self-imposed dead-lines have all but cured that. Finding your voice is another matter, important for some poets, less so, I suspect, for others.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-10715078999646725202009-11-23T21:39:09.910-08:002009-11-23T21:39:09.910-08:00Ah there are seasons and spirals in the creative l...Ah there are seasons and spirals in the creative life, Weaver...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Aloha, Friend!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Comfort Spiral</a>Cloudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05853753108637831069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-73342174419682775092009-11-23T21:36:15.393-08:002009-11-23T21:36:15.393-08:00Yeah, I have encountered it sometimes.. been up an...Yeah, I have encountered it sometimes.. been up and ready with all the ingridients, but just unable to bind it all together my style..I don't know why that happens.. but it has annoyed me at time, and at times helped me discover some abilities I never knew I had!SGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07439071211238467709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-66322363692342814232009-11-23T20:00:37.769-08:002009-11-23T20:00:37.769-08:00pialylJ don't do needlework, sewing or baking,...pialylJ don't do needlework, sewing or baking, but I do write poetry, books, bloggs and opinion pieces, (which I don't always have the courage to post). But I also paint and draw. I find that if Im not ready to do anything creative, I take a break, so special length of time. But I have found that the moment always comes again -- but not if I fret about it.ChrisJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550420299395301062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-63962103522412113272009-11-23T19:45:48.825-08:002009-11-23T19:45:48.825-08:00I think if you have found your voice in your poetr...I think if you have found your voice in your poetry, you should consider some themes from your poetry to help design the cover for the book. The poems I have been most successful with since I've been blogging are my ecology poems. I would probably like a cover that reflected the environment. Maybe thinking of themes will help you discover a way into the process. If you are half as successful at the cover as you are creating the poems, the whole project is sure to be fantastic. I love your enthusiasm for this! =DAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03241402645242821612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-89972153108402188632009-11-23T19:00:47.290-08:002009-11-23T19:00:47.290-08:00I am running into the same problem this very day, ...I am running into the same problem this very day, trying to make Christmas cards. I've gone in 3 different directions and rejected each one as unworthy. Sometimes walking away from a project and coming back fresh a few days later will help it click.Golden Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04590087189810939432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-72903436103392734862009-11-23T18:03:26.045-08:002009-11-23T18:03:26.045-08:00Finding your voice back, may take a while (maybe b...Finding your voice back, may take a while (maybe because you don't have enough time to think?). And then when you have found it, the next question is how to develop it:) Just go your own pace!<br />I have the opposite: not enough hours in a day to work out my ideas AND blog at the same time.Jeannette StGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07951617490107614687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-68992740744719730312009-11-23T15:35:06.741-08:002009-11-23T15:35:06.741-08:00Lovely handwriting weaver!Lovely handwriting weaver!Totalfeckineejithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-17706498523952240232009-11-23T15:34:04.245-08:002009-11-23T15:34:04.245-08:00I don't have time to read the other comments t...I don't have time to read the other comments today, so I am perhaps repeating . . . I think you find your voice by doing. It is in the process that we get a feel for what is right and what is true, for us.<br /><br />I very much doubt that this will be a problem for you for long!<br /><br />Good luck - and get to work. :-)Bonnie Zieman, M.Ed.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00282469017360136275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-36493073483739347052009-11-23T14:42:49.685-08:002009-11-23T14:42:49.685-08:00weaver i had a voice for a decade and a bit that s...weaver i had a voice for a decade and a bit that spoke through my painting. there's a language you develop that isn't about words. it's about knowing why you are doing what you are doing. it's also about being available to creative energy. this isn't done on a whim. it's worked for. it's mostly about getting your self out of the way and letting what will be . . . be. think back to your collages . . . . . .. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-74528893032724596112009-11-23T13:02:27.883-08:002009-11-23T13:02:27.883-08:00I think that in whatever genre we work or play, an...I think that in whatever genre we work or play, anyone can feel blocked or on a roll. And it doesn't matter; if it's work, one disciplines oneself to get down to it, no matter what; if it's play, creativity will return. Believe me, I've been there and constantly berate myself until I find myself again and can move on. All the best with your poetry, book cover, sewing and whatever else you love.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-12988634585414942542009-11-23T12:50:08.737-08:002009-11-23T12:50:08.737-08:00After I had completed both parts of the City and G...After I had completed both parts of the City and Guilds course (which took 4 years) I couldn't do any 'proper' work for another 12months. It really scared me - I thought of all that money, time and effort which I had invested. But luckily something started me off again, and I think you will be the same. Something will inspire you and you will want to start work. Even if you made a book cover in the style of someone else, it would still have your stamp on it - still be in your voice. Looking forward to seeing it when you feel ready.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06826501916623305535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-85409334026898625802009-11-23T12:34:05.514-08:002009-11-23T12:34:05.514-08:00I have a massive blockage right now. UGH.... I can...I have a massive blockage right now. UGH.... I can't see a picture, write a poem or play any music or make a stitch. I am sitting and stewing. I hope that once the Thanksgiving feast is over I will be able to break out of this confine.Lisa at Greenbowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07743973292900758183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-89451813895278356462009-11-23T12:24:10.188-08:002009-11-23T12:24:10.188-08:00I do think it's difficult to find your own &qu...I do think it's difficult to find your own "voice" with the needlearts. So much of what we do is influenced by those needlewomen who have come before, or by the new "voices" in the needlework field. I'm finding that if I use stitches in a way that I think I have discovered, then it feels original and uniquely mine. I think color choices, for example are very personal and intuitive. You can study under fabulous teachers to get the basics, then the flying solo can be a wonderful journey! Nothing wrong though with being influenced by others, as long as credit is given! Derivative work can be viewed as a learning curve, perhaps! Just do your notebook cover and don't think too much!Jane Moxeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03771039102502842946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-34495412781676989012009-11-23T12:20:22.312-08:002009-11-23T12:20:22.312-08:00I made my dairy for next year today and I'm st...I made my dairy for next year today and I'm stuck at exactly the same point, how to decorate the cover! Mine will be a collage, which I may or may not share on my blog.... Good luck finding the right textile cover for your notebook....Crafty Green Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-18552622467922277012009-11-23T12:03:51.741-08:002009-11-23T12:03:51.741-08:00Great post Weaver. Your voice is very important an...Great post Weaver. Your voice is very important and personal. At this moment I have the feeling that everybody is being very creative, but I am not. I think I am too tired. I need the sun!!Reader Wilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06384603525251159272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-2064512485263989062009-11-23T12:03:07.497-08:002009-11-23T12:03:07.497-08:00Very interesting Weaver. As I only create serious...Very interesting Weaver. As I only create seriously in one medium (words) I haven't thought about losing your voice in other creative mediums.<br />I also find the handwriting decision fascinating too. For me, poems are "rough" until they're typed, and it's only then that I start editing properly. I can't write direct to computer, but I can only edit on computer. <br />Good luck with the cover, best wishes for finding that textile voice soon. Play a bit.Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380213493011623153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-84480685042089293432009-11-23T11:52:41.665-08:002009-11-23T11:52:41.665-08:00Blogging has encouraged my poetry writing as well....Blogging has encouraged my poetry writing as well. I'm looking forward to seeing your notebook cover!Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.com