New Tapestry in Progress

I have been working with this image of three birch trees on my street for a couple of years now. You can see the finished Double Weave pick up in previous posts.

I am planing to weaving this whole image in Double Weave pick up again, but with some differences. But Ive been thinking for awhile about taking just portions of this drawing - for tapestry. I isolated a portion of the whole for a cartoon, and then pondered what to put in the background.

While I pondered, I made a rust print from my studio burners. Someone, somewhere made a comment about rust printing. There was an old napkin, and some very rusty burners. I had to try it out.

I put the rust circle behind the cartoon of a section of tress, and decided that would be my composition. Now I am weaving circles within circles, behind trees.

Looking back at my work over many years, I realize that Birch Trees and Water are recurrent themes. Maybe someday I will figure out why that is.