Ever since I found out what weaving was.
I learnt the basics at school in craft classes (until the craft rooms were burnt down, new looms and all). I had to wait until I was married before I got my first table loom, And I was happy with that for a few years. But what I really wanted was to weave PICTURES.
I tried various ways, such as inlay and brocade, but they were too stilted and not what I was imagining. I found out about tapestry but avoided that because it was SLOW.
Eventually, while studying for my Certificate of Applied Art(Weaving) at the Melbourne College of Textiles, I did a unit of Tapestry. That was it. That was what I wanted. I did a second unit of Tapestry.
Later I did a few years of the Diploma of Tapestry course at the SW College of TAFE (Warrnambool, Vic).
Now I had the knowledge and tools to do the tapestries I was imagining, and the rest, as they say, is history.
I like frogs, and I wove this one a few years ago.
