SE Asian Hill Tribe embroidered pillows are the latest addition to my Etsy Shop Ravenmade Works I bought a worn western-styled jacket from a thrift store – that I forgot to take a picture of before I started unpicking it. It was made from a collection of worn Hill Tribe embroideries pieced together to make […]
Read More...I am spending 8 days working next to the front window of Lilaberry Home Decor here as part of the Artsea Festival. Lilaberry Home Decor is a fabulous shop owned by Chris Stephen. All stock is artfully staged to appeal to all senses. There is so much to see one can easily get lost in thought, […]
Read More...I collected up the fabric and made a decision on the value range. The layers of fabric were stacked lightest to darkest and the energy lines of this colour sewn on the back of the ground. Then the cutting started. Several hours later. It is coming along quite nicely but there is still a lot […]
Read More...My drawing desk. Notice the drafting board is empty. I completed the final assignment, presented it…. …and graduated. For the past couple of months I put everything else more or less on hold and focused on this program. I feel a great sense of achievement and also pleased I am able to return to my ‘normal’. […]
Read More...Daughter Elizabeth is good at coming up with creative solutions. We were planning to do some dyeing outside and wondering how to set things up. This was her solution using things on hand: an old firewood stacking frame and a door. The set up. Note the perfect hat I have found for working outside in the sun. […]
Read More...When building a ground with snippets of thread…. …one uses a lot of it.I do love to empty a spool. Collecting up fabric and thread for Synesthesia #4 Collecting up fabric and thread for Synesthesia #5.I am enjoying working on this series.
Read More...The Joshua Creek Gallery housed the World of Threads Festival exhibition De rerum natura ( On The Nature of Things). The festival curator, Gareth Bate, looked at all of the work submitted then decided on groupings and themes. He “observed that environmental work is the most dominant theme in contemporary fibre art.”These are some of […]
Read More...I felt there was some confusion in the focus of the fashion show. There were fashion garments that showed a wide range of surface design techniques but there were also wearable art garments, garments one wouldn’t wear out in the street. The image shows Jess Larson’s (Minnesota) used tea bag and paper jacket – a […]
Read More...I recently came across Sue Stone’s work and find this one ‘East End Chair’ so appealing. I don’t know why. Is it all of the textures she has worked up with needle-weaving and hand and machine stitching on recycled fabrics?Plus, it is funny.
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