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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.
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]
followed my own pattern with crochet thread #10 see modifications here www.amigurumitogo.com/2013/05/miniature-blue-panda.html
I inherited these old chocolate boxes of thread from my Mum. I did start sorting them...but it is a big job!
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!
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.
my mom just remodeled my room to be her sewing room and it looks great. This is part of her thread selection that is organized on the wall.
Macro of the eye of a needle. Shot with a Ricoh 50mm f1.7 lens reversed on the lens adapter of my Canon S5.
01 "Thread Quartz" Switzerland"
02) Camera: Em-1
03) Lens:60mm Zuiko + Raynox 250
04) Magnification: 8 mm, 2:1
05) Lens Settings: Iso 100, f 5,6
06) Processing: LR, Helicon Focus, PS CC
07) Lighting: 4 LED
08) Steps: Olympus-Bracketing 59 Pictures
09) 30.12.2017
2 more round yellow and 1 black then this block is done this is actually square it is just resting on a black velvet pillow that is curved.
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Day 16 blue
365 days in colour
I've found that I have quite a lot of blue thread in the workbox, I shan't need to buy any for a long while.
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 -
Silver Thread Falls is the smaller of two falls at the Dingman's Falls area in Pennsylvania's Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
This was shot under poor conditions for waterfall photos. Silver Thread is in a gorge that looks like something from Jurassic Park and it was early afternoon on a sunny day. The dappled light coming through the trees created an array of bright and dark spots. I don't think I would have had anything usable if not for making a 5-exposure series and blending it in HDR software (Photomatix).
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