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Work in progress from our weekend on the Sail Club island during a camp for the kids. I thought the sketch was too unfinished like this, but then the end result is kind of over worked. Should I have quitted here anyway?
This shows machine embroidery on to a sandwich of chiffon, knitting and a cotton base.
The wool fibres of the knitted piece have been trapped behind the chiffon, but when I burn away the chiffon with a heat gun, some of the fibres will spring back.
Acrylic on Board
Work in Progress
Background still needs work and the odd bit of tweaking. Almost there
I promise it's straight, this is the best photo I could get before the wind blew it down.
Still need to add borders, I'm debating doing pieced ones but I'm not sure if I have any patience left in me.
Blogged with a bit more info: craftblog.com.au/2009/11/22/my-current-quilty-wip/
Blogged about finishing the quilt here: craftblog.com.au/2009/12/01/declans-quilt-is-finished/
I'm working on some collage/assemblage/mixed media stuff. I haven't done that for a while.
That is my hand reflected in the fish mirror.
Another go at the image I took last week though this time it's on a tripod.
5x4 is at the hospital...
Close-up of new elbow layout. I like this change a LOT, it allows for full range of motion without looking too gangly.
After four hard months of a total rebuild and extension I am now in possession of a studio. This is still a storage area pending decoration, and as I have to complete a four foot hanging in the next two days I am forced to work in a very tiny area in part of this room.
I have shown here my pin board with my "tapestry" attached to it. I am trying to position the daisy and the bottom border here. Lots more work to do!
For TR, because he inspired it...I just don't have the inspiration or drive to finish it.
The idea was to create a submarine with the ability to deploy an aquatic-capable mobile suit. It more or less can do this, and has the rough shape I want, but I kind of lost interest and want to build something else. Maybe I will return to it one day...
Half completed items waiting for attention.
I had intended to spend the morning in the garden but a continuation of the recent heavy rain has caused a change of plan.
This scavenger hunt will be linked through twitter. These NL taps will be hidden throughout Northern Liberties, hints will be given each day for a week. The first person to find it will receive an open bar at participating NoLibs bars.
One of the rarest flowers in England. In fact so rare it has its own 20 foot by 40 foot cage for protection and visits to see the flower are by permit only and accompanied by the warden and arranged through the Wildlife Trust. The route into the flower was so overgrown and complicated (maybe deliberately so) that I'm not sure I could ever find it again anyway. It was also difficult to photograph given how far away the cage made us and several people in the group (30 people altogether) only had relatively short focal length macro lenses which would have meant a very small flower in their images. Not the greatest photograph but included for rarity value.
Commencing colouring. Progress is slow. It's supposed to be therapeutic? Wound up obsessing over what colours to lay down where. I'm probably doing this whole colouring book therapy thing wrong. Pencils: Pentel Arts, 24 colours.
Stage three.
I've coated part of the canvas with gesso, mixed with some tea.
Thankfully the sun is still out, although there are ominous clouds.
I love the way that the shadows of the flower stems stand out against the background.
Nothing is quite like the start of a major piece.
I have laid down the base for a new suffrage work, and as I try to use the textile techniques which would have been familiar to the women of that era, I have decided to incorporate knitting and finger crochet.
The base of the work is a 2 foot square canvas which I have covered with a patchwork of hand dyed blanket pieces in shades of blue/green/yellow.
On top of this I am creating a random surface of finger crochet and knitting in both wool and fabric.
This shows the section where I have used wool.
It is a work in progress and as I am in free fall with this one, who knows where it is going!