Someday, the altered art you make today will be
old, faded, falling apart, and someone else will salvage the bits and use them
in new altered art.It's the best that any piece of art can hope for

~ anon~


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Showing posts with label Textiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Textiles. Show all posts

Wednesday, 14 July 2010

WOYWW..... I'm a solderin' and a sewin'


Now then People, you have got to admit that (for me) this looks almost organised... I did have to clear some space to actually get the machine on my desk (and I have to admit, I did have to clear some floor space to get to the desk) but I didn't do the - push it all back method - I put it away!
My textile mentor Katherine made me two beautiful canvases for my Birthday (which she has now blogged) and she also gave me a free stitching foot (is that what you call them?) for my machine, a very opportune gift because I had a piece of Tyvek from last months DT pack,, which I had already, painted and ironed to distort it, and had the idea of trying to stitch around the 'bubbles'  - I can still hear the Dragon of a woman, my Needlework Teacher at school, voice ringing in my ear 'Nicola try it on a piece of scrap fabric first'  well I didn't pay any attention to the woman then, and I am not paying any attention to her now, I just went in head first and stitched straight onto my precious piece of Tyvek, luckily I am really pleased with the result.
Swinging to the right, you will see I have my box of soldering supplies out, that's because I burnt the edges of the Tyvek to roughen them up a bit, I thought it was a much safer bet than using a heat gun on it, and I was right, it worked really well, so I added a couple of extra holes as well. You can also see the Morsbags I have been making and are ready to be sent off on Friday after I have drawn the blog candy draw... take a look at the post a few down and add you name if you would like to be in with a chance of winning one.


Now onto the exciting part...
This months DT pack has arrived.......
lots of scrummy stuff to play with, Watch this space!

Saturday, 13 March 2010

Had a Lovely Day

Learning Rag-Rugging and doing some more Needle-felting with the very multi-talented Meg Foster, who is not only an accomplished artist/painter but is passionate about using recycled things in her textile work.... boy her enthusiasm is exhausting!

I can't imagine that I will ever have the patience to a full size rug, but I can see endless possibilities using this techniques in my work, with a 'Nicks Twist'.







Now I have just got to mention that Meg is doing a Free-Form Knitting course in April...