Small Weavings and the squirrel who ate my hammock

 This story begins with a rope hammock that I have had in my back yard for a long time. One gets replaced by another when they fall apart and I often keep some rope to repair the next one to extend its life. So we put this used but fairly new hammock out that we had acquired. And a squirrel was spotted chewing on it early in the day.  I thought, oh I can fix that after work. Well, by the time I was finished work the squirrel (which I normally refer to as tree rats) had come back and chewed up so much more of the hammock it was destroyed. While this tree rat is sitting pretty in a next full of hammock rope, this year there will be no hammock in the yard for us to use. 

The next week we were headed out on a short camping trip and I grabbed a small weaving kit to take with me and threw in some of the rope from the hammock. Something to keep my hands busy at the campsite. Inspired by this sunrise I wove the first small weaving "Just before sunrise". This was on a foam core pin loom that I had in my weaving kit. 

I wanted to be able to use found objects so I started this one on a matboard with the warp wrapped around it. at the bottom is a piece of plastic from the firewood and the yellow netting also from the firewood.  I could not forget about that darned squirrel so I added some rope from the hammock with the strands coming down in the "firewood remnants with ruined by squirrel hammock".

Not able to let go of the squirrel who ate my hammock I have continued the theme with the following in process piece "squirrel eaten hammock by the trees". 

This is 3" x 3" when cut off the loom. I then tie the ends off.

I am quite enjoying playing with these little weavings as they finish quickly and are portable.

We have an upcoming road trip to visit relatives and this long car drive has been on my mind.

This one is called "Road Trip". It was finished before I started the one above.

I decided up front these don't have to be pretty or perfect or anything special. They are just fun to do.