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Sew as much as you can on the battery connector until the hole is too full of thread to make another stitch.
Im starting to get really excited for this years Thread Shed Throwdown on feb 13th 2010 ! ************ www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#/event.php?eid=269087585945&am... ***********
This is a photo from the set that i took for the flyer last season.
As much a i love my fashion and boudoir and nude photography I have a a strong passion for snowboarding and skateboarding photography. So I'll be shooting and selling my photos at the thread shed so COME ON DOWN !
This stuff is the best. I don't crochet with it very much, but it is wonderful to use as colorful string. And it's cheap!
I brightened this a fair amount, which helped give the thread a nice sheen...
Today I presented my methods for thread drawing - using four different techniques for this simple piece - to the Harbor Art Guild in Hoquiam, WA.
I used four different techniques to create this image - standard lock-stitching on a home machine, darning on a home machine, fabric applique with fusible web, and hand-embroidery.
The Loom Gallery inside Paisley Museum and Art Galleries.
The Loom Gallery is dedicated to Ellen Farmer MBE, a former mill girl who had Paisley in her heart.
(she is sadly missed)
Photographs by Brian McGuire
Renaissance Perspective
Part of Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier
(May to October 2018)
Combining sensuality with nobility, Azzedine Alaïa prized velvet for its lustrous surface and tactility, for its innate ability to hide a complex web of seams in its pile, and for its connections to the richness of the past. Alaïa often used velvet in black, but also jewel-like tones of ruby red or deep blue reminiscent of Renaissance dresses. Alaïa succeeded in modernising velvet and lightening the fabric. He created featherweight stretch velour knits that mimicked the nap of velvet, and a semi-transparent velvet that seemed like a hybrid with chiffon.
These garments are presented on a series of dress forms designed by Alaïa himself. Originally based on the proportions of the supermodel Naomi Campbell, over the years Alaïa transformed these mannequins, turning them into sculptural objects in their own right. Every tweak in proportion required the garments to be entirely reconstructed, their patterns redrafted. In their final incarnation, these figures are elongated to resemble both the sculpture of Alberto Giacometti and the exaggerated proportions of fashion illustrations.
Conceived and co-curated with Monsieur Alaïa before his death in November 2017, the exhibition charts his incredible journey from sculptor to couturier, his nonconformist nature and his infectious energy for fashion, friendship and the female body.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Alaïa personally constructed each garment by hand and refused to bow to the pressures of fashion week deadlines, instead working to his own schedule. His collaborative approach earned him an esteemed client list, including Greta Garbo, Grace Jones, Michelle Obama and Rihanna.
Rather than a retrospective, the show interlaces stories of his life and career alongside personally selected garments, ranging from the rare to the iconic and spanning the early 1980s to his most recent collection in 2017.
[Design Museum]
A quick warm up at my sewing machine this morning...one continuous line contour thread and watercolors. 5 min. exercise.
Today I presented my methods for thread drawing - using four different techniques for this simple piece - to the Harbor Art Guild in Hoquiam, WA.
I used four different techniques to create this image - standard lock-stitching on a home machine, darning on a home machine, fabric applique with fusible web, and hand-embroidery.
I saw Chinese thread books online and fell in love. I was doing a zentangle project…and decided to combine the two. Origami and I are not the best of friends…yet…so I had to make SO many boxes to get what I wanted…and ended up with 3 books. The boxes open in different ways and are stacked on top of each other to hold thread, pattern pieces, small scissors, buttons…etc. SO much fun!
While at the art festival, we went to the kids craft area and spent quite a while creating some art of our own. Here, Kyleigh is threading some beads onto a leather strip which became a bracelet. It's interesting to note how her fingers have become more adept at fine detail work as she gets older. No longer clumsy and inaccurate, she is now able to coordinate her fingers with her mind to create things. It's been fun to watch her skills sharpen and refine themselves as she gets older.
- Patrick -
Well... I think I may be onto something. I'm having a lot of fun stitching up these trees! I haven't even touched my knitting in over a week! *gasp*
(but after taking the previous photo, I am really missing my yarn and needles)