Plastic in the Oceans

Since my last post, I went to Convergence in Tampa, Florida. I had two pieces in the juried basketry exhibit. And I won 3rd place for Our Layer!
I found out last week that the two pieces I submitted to the National Fiber Arts Exhibition at Escondido Municipal Art Gallery were both accepted, and Forever Yours won 2nd place.

What's new on the loom. . .
I call this Plastic in the Oceans. It's an adaptation of Flourishing Wave Border, a draft from the Davison Book (A Handweaver's Pattern Book by Marguerite Porter Davison).

When I did Plastic in the Trees, I put out a call for colored plastic bags, and lots of white ones came along with what I collected.
This is a blue, green, and Violet warp with white grocery store bags in the pattern weft. The tabby weft is the same yarns as the warp.

It's companion piece is still on the loom; I'll probably finish it and cut it off the loom today.

I still have lots of white plastic bags, and a small number of colored ones. I'm still getting them from people, though I'm not actively seeking them.

I've gotten to the point where I'm not happy when someone hands me a bag of bags; because it means they are still taking them from stores. I'll actually be very glad when I can't get any more plastic shopping bags to weave with. I hope someday we will be able to look at these pieces and think they belonged to a specific time. I hope someday these bags won't be so ubiquitous, everywhere in our landscapes.

I also have a coiled piece in progress. This will be a wall piece. I started it as my demonstration piece for the Designing Weavers sale on May 17 & 18. Here it is on June 24, right before Convergence:

July 7th:

and today: