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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Adornments Closing Sale: July 1st-17th

Well folks. The end is near… for our beloved little shop at the Factory in Franklin, TN that is.

*sniffle* *sniffle*

We will closing our doors July 17th. I know, it’s a cruel world that just got a little darker, right? Fear not that the light will go out entirely! Our lovely website will remain a shining beacon of beauty and your access to the arts and crafts of our talented artists! *eyes shining with unshed tears*

However, in honor of the closing of our store, we will be holding a grand closing sale from July 1st through the 17th. We will be open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 6pm and all our inventory of one-of-a-kind, handmade works of art will be on sale for up to 40% off! So, now’s your chance to say farewell and take home a few more final treasures from our home at the Factory At Franklin.

*sob* *sob*

See you soon! We’ll miss you!

*dissolves into sadness*

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June Art Happenings

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

June is here already and with it some wonderful art events. I’m almost late getting the blog post up. Since last month’s flood the arts community in Middle Tennessee is working hard to help flood victims. There are benefit concerts every week in Nashville, collection sites for donations all over this area, churches are forming work crews to help people clean out and repair their homes and in Franklin a FEMA trailer has taken up residence in the parking lot behind City Hall. Local merchants have been visited and asked to pass out FEMA flyers. The Williamson County Public Library has a listing of places for people to get help if they need it haven’t already found it. Some events were canceled due to the flood and will be rescheduled later

In Nashville -

June 5, 2010 6:00 – 9:00 pm First Saturday Art Crawl Galleries in Downtown Nashville sponsored by the Nashville Downtown Partnership. A listing of this month’s galleries and shuttle maps can be found on their website Click on their logo to visit their site.

http://www.nashvilledowntown.com/

Franklin and Williamson County -

June 4, 2010 1:00 – 9:00 pm Art Fusion 2010 The Factory at Franklin Fine Art and Fine Craft from over 50 artists, wine, munchies……what’s not to love? If you want to know more about this fun event before coming you can visit their website by clicking on their logo.

June 5, 2010 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Art Fusion continues The Factory at Franklin

June 11, 2010 6:00 – 8:00 pm SouthGate Studio and Fine Art The Factory at Franklin

Featuring new works by Dawn Whitelaw, Jody Thompson, Pat Thompson, Paula Frizbe, Jim Frazier, Catherine McMurray, Lori Putnam & Jean Gauld-Jaeger, Brenda Siegel, Ed Routon, Cynthia Vowell

June 11, 2010 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Brown Bag Lunch Bunch Williamson County Public Library This month’s program is a photography workshop by Eric L. Hansen, Adjunct Professor in the Art Department of Belmont University. For more information visit the website of the Arts Council of Williamson County

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Weaving the Pillow Fabric Continues

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

I have been working on weaving the fabric for these pillows for a week so. Okay, I know my last post on this subject was almost a month ago but I actually started weaving about a week ago. I had a couple of false starts in the last month. I had everything all tied up beautifully and started weaving as I had planned and two things happened. First, I had used the manufacturer’s sett recommendation and instead of having a nice, close weave I had an open weave, as in you could see through the fabric. This is lovely in a shawl or scarf, maybe even in an afghan, but not good in pillow covers. I would have to line them (twice as much sewing) or the white pillow form would show through. This was bad. I had to take things apart, move the threads over to where they should be and re-tie the loom. Time consuming but do-able.

LESSON: Never take the manufacturer’s recommendations without checking them.

The second thing I noticed (before taking things apart) was that I didn’t like the look of the fabric the way I had planned it. I bought 5 different colors to use with these three pillows. I will just rearrange the way I use them. As long as you have enough yarn, this is an easy problem to fix.

I now have the weaving almost done for the first of the three pillows. Wanna see? Of course you do. Here are two views One from the top and one from the bottom. I’m not sure which way the fabric will end up on the pillows. I have a plan but I have learned to be flexible. I’ll decide after I take them off the loom and wash them. Let me know what you think?