ravenmade
Mar 24, 20141 min read
Back to Spring Cleaning
The last bit of machine sewing resulted in a satisfying number of empty spools. I do enjoy using my stash of resources. I sent a swatch...
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ravenmade
Mar 17, 20141 min read
Synesthesia #22 Yellow-orange
After completing my studies and starting to cleaning up my studio I was keen to get back to making. I decided to take a break and make a...
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ravenmade
Mar 14, 20141 min read
Mending, Shovelling, Putting Away
In between sorting and putting away resources I would go out and shovel. One time, after coming back inside, I found the mending pile had...
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ravenmade
Mar 8, 20141 min read
Studio Tidy-up Time Continues
I am taking my time cleaning up my studio because it is giving me time to think - the type of thinking that goes on when my hands are...
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ravenmade
Mar 4, 20141 min read
Done & have the paper to prove it!
My drawing desk. Notice the drafting board is empty.  I completed the final assignment, presented it.... ...and graduated. For the past...
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ravenmade
Feb 10, 20141 min read
'Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters' in Saskatchewan
The 4th showing of Articulation and Material Girls' response to the Bay of Fundy and the River Thames, respectively, will be shown in its...
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ravenmade
Feb 5, 20141 min read
Carole Sabiston 'Everything Below All of the Above'
There are 2 galleries full of Carole's work. This one gave me a start because I used the same PK Page poem in my degree studies. 'Planet...
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ravenmade
Feb 2, 20141 min read
Carole Sabiston Opens at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
We attended the opening of Carole Sabiston's exhibition at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, a retrospective solo called "Carole...
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ravenmade
Jan 29, 20142 min read
'Hands Around the World' in Christ Church Cathedral
In the Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, there is an exhibition of 11 international textile murals. It is the 'Creative Peace Mural...
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ravenmade
Jan 27, 20141 min read
New Studio Work Area
This used to be the admin area in my studio until I moved it outside my main studio room. In the process of moving out. I didn't decided...
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ravenmade
Jan 17, 20141 min read
New Articulation Work
Then I cut the strips again ... ... joined them then cut them into 6 panels. I want to show what we all see when we fly over the prairies...
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ravenmade
Jan 13, 20141 min read
Next Articulation Series of work
Two summers ago, while travelling, I knit lots of rectangles in a log cabin quilt technique. Last summer, while working in a temporary...
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ravenmade
Jan 4, 20141 min read
Studio Tidy-up
With my new sewing machine in hospital, I hauled out my old one to continue the cord making.No sooner had I started to sew when I smelt a...
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ravenmade
Jan 2, 20141 min read
Cord Making Project
Day 3 of this quick, in-between-projects, project. There was lots of satisfying evidence of progress... ...including I don't know how...
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ravenmade
Dec 31, 20131 min read
Cord Making Project
In between projects I was clearing up the studio when I saw how big my collection of 2nd hand machine thread had grown.I decided to make...
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ravenmade
Dec 20, 20131 min read
Cardboard Weaving & Embellishment Workshop, Nanaimo
In conjunction with Vancouver Island SDA's exhibition, Current Threads 2014, in the Nanaimo Art Gallery, Margie Preninger will be running...
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ravenmade
Dec 10, 20131 min read
Saint Anne's Pilgrims
Saint Anne is the oldest pilgrimage site in North America. It all started when a builder working on the site found he didn't need his...
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ravenmade
Dec 5, 20131 min read
Basilique Saint-Anne-de-Beaupre, Quebec
During Articulation's study week in Quebec we visited many churches but this was my favourite. The Christian religion and the Bible are...
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ravenmade
Dec 2, 20131 min read
Art in Quebec City
Jean Paul Lemieux, Sketch for "The Ursulines"1951This work caught my eye because we had spent a morning doing research in the Ursuline...
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ravenmade
Nov 28, 20131 min read
Quebec City - Door Study
Before I arrived in Quebec City I had thought I might do a door study. And work with the symbolism and conceptual meanings associated...
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