working on my other blogs…
I feel I’ve not been paying much attention to this blog… I’ve been taking/sorting my doorway photos… I’ve started another new blog which I’ve called ‘my slow cloth story’… here I plan to record the work I’m doing for the take it further challenge through which I’m going to explore my ideas/thoughts on slow cloth…
trying to select the fabric to start my journey into ’slow cloth’…
back online…. & take it further challenge…
at last… I hadn’t realised just how much I had came to rely on the internet until it wasn’t there…
I even feel I’m late starting Sharon B’s ‘take it further challenge’, so many of you who signed up have already posted WIP’s and finished work while I’m just gathering ideas together… anyway this is what Sharon posted…
“The key concept for January is a feeling we have all had, the feeling of admiration for another. Ask yourself who do you look up to and admire? Why? What is it you admire about them? This is a the first Take it Further challenge in 2008. Take the idea, develop it into a resolved design during that month and apply it to fiber or paper.
The colour scheme for this month is below. I came up with it by using ColourLovers If you have not seen this site before and love colour do check it out as there is lots of fun to be had over there.”
well I can’t get the picture of the colour scheme to appear here… so try this link
both the key concept and the colour scheme have set me thinking…
I have spent time on the idea of slow cloth… Sharon B posted about this here as did Elaine Lipson… but the person who I feel produces the best slow/story cloth is Jude over on Spirit Cloth… so the key concept of who do I admire… in the world of textile blogs… apart from Sharon B:) … has got to be Jude… so I’m thinking alone the lines of a ‘what if’ (Jude… do hope this is OK with you…) using the colour scheme for my fabric and threads (while I love blues and purples I never pick greens…so this should be a challenge…) and using some/lots of the new stitches I’ve learnt from Sharon B… I might even try to included one of ‘my doorways’ as I do intend to use some of these images in my work…
no broadband…
doesn’t life come to a stand still when your phone line / broadband service is interrupted… we lost both on Wednesday and while the phone was working again by Thursday lunchtime we are still without our broadband connection… I’m using next door’s wireless at the moment but it’s a very weak signal so I keep losing it… so I’m typing very fast:)… so my new blog has suffered…
doorways…
I would like to wish everyone joy and creativity and hope you all have a
wonderful 2008…
I’ve been taking photos of doorways for a while now but had no real idea in mind as to what I was going to do with these photos… I’m going to start and work with these images… using them in my mixed media art work on both paper and cloth… to this end I’ve started another blog…
Sharon B’s new challenge…
Sharon B has posted details of a new challenge for 2008, go take a look…
Take it Further challenge
“This challenge grew out of the Take a stitch Tuesday challenge run in 2007. “Take it Further” aims to apply textile technique skills to design.
The challenge will run all year in 2008.”
I first came across Sharon at Joggles.com where you can sign up for one of her classes…
Develop a Personal Library of Stitches
I learnt so much from that class… I’ve still not worked my way through even half of the things Sharon provided for the class…
I’m not link to Sharon in any way… I just think she gives so much in her online classes and on her website that you should go take a look…
remember the pink mini?
well it’s back… the little pink mini was sent to Jude who transformed it, you can read about the transformation over on Jude’s blog, then sent it back… it is simple stunning the hand stitching is to marvel at… I’ve not yet found a place to display it… at present it’s moving around the house with me!
As well as the ‘pink mini’ the package contained a pile of indigo fabric squares … and a lovely little pine tree done using free piecing …
Pictures of all these will follow when the digital camera returns!!
new page … tag book…
I’ve started a new project and a new page showing it’s development… tag book
New page… urban graffiti…
I’ve added a new page showing the altered book I’ve just posted to Claire… called ‘urban graffiti‘… I used acrylic paint to create the backgrounds then lots of different pens…
