Creative Mindfulness Paper Weaving

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Paper Weaving with Casey in Mather Senior Class.

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I think we have all done some paper weaving when we were kids..., Creative Mindfulness with Casey brought the project to us in conjunction with her Peruvian series. After an entire day in the garden I had exactly 7 minutes to gather materials and prep for this class, which was only going to be about 40 minutes to work.

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I grabbed a black sheet of multi-media paper which is a bit heavier than card stock. 

I folded it in half and cut some wavy and straight lines up the fold leaving a heavy outside edge.  Then I pulled out my magazine files, grabbed the 'bedroom folder' and pulled 5 random sheets and just cut strips...I really didn't choose specific pages. I had a heap of strips on my desk. so I just began selecting for colors, the warm toned strips and wove them in and out.

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I do like the irregular widths and shapes this weaving. 

SENIOR TIP: I used bamboo skewers to open a row making the thin paper easier to thread through. (My hands are not agile enough to do this type of fine motor--especially after a day of garden clipping and digging.)

Leave your first skewer in the row of paper, move out of the way and...add another one with the opposite weave. Then slip your strip through, this skewer you will have to remove each time, but the first one in the paper still can be reused. This really helped!

A skewer point is far more agile than my fumble fingers.

Anyway when I was done, I found the piece a bit boring, and a not 'focused' design. I had attempted to do blocks of color but really the black really swallowed all that.

 I decided to "enhance" some of the black areas with some metallic pens.

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I used the copper tone and the gold tone and a bit of white pen. Not in every square, but here and there echoing a color square/design nearby, or framing a square.

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The Yellow cushioon suddenly becomes a design area.

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This was fun...and quick, and something you can do with grandkids or redo.

Next time I will pick a very strong way of cutting my original rows in the back piece so there is some angular movement to make it more interesting.

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Finished Magazine Page Paper Weave with metallic pens.

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