As I prepare to visit the Quilt show in South Africa, I went back over my diary 5 years ago… I wasn't able to add photos then because the internet connection just wouldn't allow… so I decided to look at it again today. I walked down a new road today. The road of the black…
Category: Capture & Create
Time out
The danger of taking time out is that I sort of go into free fall and I admit to sleeping in front of the TV for some time this afternoon. I really couldn't get out of that chair. I have articles to finish writing, a shared quilt to complete, Dr's appointments, dinners with family and…
I played with it.
Student Anne, said that she thought that Tetsuo Fujimoto wanted the image to flute…. TETSUO FUJIMOTO – Born 1952 "Tetsuo Fujimoto, who trained and worked initially as a weaver, describes his work as ‘machine drawings’ which are created by densely layering stitch mark on top of stitch mark, covering the base cloth and…
Packing again.
The Pomegranates sit on the table… I wish I could eat them but I'm allergic to all fresh fruit so all I can do is photograph them. and I begin the illustration of the huipil, I thought I might put it into a quilt format… but I decided to paint it… I had Tilly to…
How is it so.?
Before I left for overseas I became aware of the work of Tetsuo Fujimoto. I looked at his work and I could figure out how he did it…. BUT this question haunted me during my trip… "How did he keep the fabric from puckering" So I guess the only way to find out is to…
A new Project
What am I doing? any ideas? this is just the beginning of an interesting experiment. I'm using black fabric, cream thread and freemotion zig zag… that means I've got the free motion foot on the machine and I have't dropped the feed dogs. I'm controlling the length of the zig zag by moving the fabric…
American Folk Art Museum Pt 1
While in New York, I caught up with my good friend Pam Holland. Don't you just love it when you are on the other side of the world and you meet up with someone from home? I always find it so surreal. Pam lives in Adelaide and we often see each other overseas more than…
New Monet’s garden sample.
The quilt is finished. Styles change, and my older Monet's garden samples are interesting, but I wanted to add some of the new techniques I've added to my resume. I like this piece, it flows, it has direction and I like the way i was able to achieve the softness in the background. It's…
New Monet garden sample
I'm preparing for South Africa and re-vamping the Monet's Garden class… Considering that I have just been there I felt I should make another sample. So I took a hard photo to re-create. I dyed the fabric to similar to the background of this photo. It's not exactly the same but it gives me a…
Just good stuff.
While I was in Mexico, I purchased some of the "Meximerican style" Garments… The cut is super, the fabric is great but it needed oomph… so at 4.00 this morning I was out embellishing one of the tops. I used Thai silk patches and to balance the color, a little black and white spot stripe…