I’m working on this baby quilt for a friend of mine. I have basted the quilt layers together and now just have to quilt and bind it. I randomly pieced the blocks and then used plain colours to join the blocks together.
I’ve recently joined BrisStyle - Brisbane Etsy Street Team http://brisstyle.blogspot.com/ with other Etsyers from the Brisbane area.
I’ll be selling my wares soon in the BrisStyle Indie Designers Market on Saturday 5 December.
I’m currently busy getting my range of stock together. I’ll have a huge range of brooches and earrings, as well as purses, cards and some miniature versions of my geometric paintings (acrylic on canvas). You’ll catch a glimpse of the range in the weeks to come as I madly sew, paint and stitch!
Hello
It has been awhile between drinks. Life seems to get in the way of me and the blogging machine. I have been creating however. I’ve got a box full of brooches (it has been suggested that perhaps it’s time to stop the brooch construction and expand my repertoire).
These are my latest broochings:
Latest offerings from the brooch construction zone
And I’ve also been doing some quilting. A baby quilt for my friend’s gorgeous little 11 month old – Thomas.
These are two recent artworks I’ve done. I’m still grappling with how to mount and present fibre works considering the dust and moth factor. So I’ve done two works on white fabric the colour on which dirt and insect attack is most obvious!!
Last year I had a few fiber works in an art and craft exhibition which actually took place in a shed. It was particularly obvious as the only person working in fiber that this wasn’t the perfect setting for my artwork. There was a campfire set up in the middle of the shed also so when I got my artworks back they smelt extremely smoky. Even in a house I guess the thing about fiber is that it absorbs whatever is in the air… cooking smells, mold etc.
But I just love the tactile nature of textiles and I love mounting fibre works on the front of art canvases, especially as art canvases are going so cheap these days.
A dilemma that needs more pondering I think.
Scrap Village From the Air - I used fabric scraps kindly sourced from my friend Jeannie to make this
Detail of Scrap Village From the Air
Geometric pattern stitched on canvas with embroidery thread
Close-up of stitched canvas
My brooch construction site
A close-up of my workspace
My button stash
Welcome to my new site!
Check out what I’ve been working on lately….
I’ve had this painting sitting around half finished for a long time. I couldn’t decide on the background colour or whether the shapes should continue across the surface. But recently I looked at it again and with a flash of inspiration it became red and finished!
I’m done quite alot of work in the last few years using these shapes. I see buildings and laneways when I paint them – an aerial layout of a city. Currently these are medieval city layouts – very ad hoc in their arrangement, but I would like to move on to representations of homogenous streets in the suburban tracts surrounding cities. Particularly cul-de-sacs and repetition of house types. And of course multiple swimming pools sprinkled throughout.