I got a new sewing machine for my birthday. It is a Heavy Duty Singer that can sew thick and fast. My new Bernina 780 is not up to sewing thick layers of fabric, something I have had to accept after giving away my 40-year-old Bernina 830 Record which could handle everything I gave it. The Bernina […]
Read More...Vocha, Corinthia, Greece, early 20th century Layers of wool and cotton heavily embroidered. Silver ornament. Belesi, Argolid, Greece, early 20th century The heavily embroidered red vest is all the more eye-catching when worn with the white over-vest. The many different types of embroidery reflect the many outside influences over Greece’s long history. […]
Read More...Here is one of those pesky tourists standing beside one of the famed Greek Evzone – guards of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the president’s mansion, dressed in his Sunday uniform. To join this elite division of guards one has to be over 6′ 1.3″/1.87m tall. The guard’s uniform evolved from the Klephts’ […]
Read More...Carol’s samples of dyed fabric using different sets of primary colours. In the fall I attended a Carol Soderlund workshop at the Pacific Northwest Art School. ‘TRUE COLORS: Developing a Personal Palette’ Building a reference for my chosen personal palette. Early in the week, I met one-on-one with Carol for my Palette Chat where I showed her my […]
Read More...2014 3 years 3 months after the emergency while living outside wrapped around the Indian plum I brought the 3 afternoon tea cloths inside. They were carefully washed, dried and ironed. I was hoping the laundering had stopped the decay processes. There is much staining and decay and large holes had appeared. How to preserve this […]
Read More...‘Earth Repair’ began as a response to what I considered to be an emergency situation. March 11, 2011 – quoting from my journal – ‘Emergency. It has been a long winter here on the island. The deer are hungry. They are eating the bark on my precious Indian Plum. I need to care for this tree. The […]
Read More...Lesley Turner, ‘Earth Repair’ 36″ x 35″/92 x 89 cm, 2011 – ongoing, embroidered (anonymous) vintage cotton afternoon tea cloth, leaf skeletons, cotton & polyester thread, jute string, wooden branch, MinWax; tree staining, washing, ironing, hand & machine applique, waxing. This work has been accepted into the World of Threads Festival 2016 in the ‘Late in the […]
Read More...Here are my results from a day out in the sun sprinkle dyeing and sun printing. This fabric had previously been dyed and still needed work. I sprinkled on a mixed dye. It is interesting to see how the blue migrated further than the red before the damp fabric dried out. The red blob in the […]
Read More...During a Mark Makers’ summer residency at the Vancouver Island School of Art (VISA) website we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and have a dyeing day outside. We set up tables and brought out buckets of water to the backyard of the school. I set up my sophisticated system for working with dye powder […]
Read More...Judi MacLeod ‘White Lady,’ white linen, manipulated white cotton, hand and machine stitched Judi led the this year’s Current Threads exhibition committee. She led the hanging and compiled the artist statement binder among many other tasks. A close up of ‘White Lady’ because my poor photography didn’t really show any of the texture. Committee member Sarah McLaren […]
Read More...