Sew2Speak

I had to draw cubes for various activities in module 5 on Form. It wasn’t a particularly challenging exercise for me but fun anyway. I have been doodling tumbling blocks for years now. When I started at the Girls Grammar school we all had to line up in alphabetical order and then starting from the doorway [...]

Since I had such an easy time with the first exercise I did activity 2 as well today. I had to deconstruct a box and then use it as a pattern to make two more. Yesterday I was sorting out our collection of greeting cards and emptied a clear plastic box that had contained Christmas cards. [...]

I’ve started the next module. This one is all about form. I anticipated that the first activity would be to provide a selection of images to illustrate form. While on holiday in June I (well we actually!) not only took photos of texture but also of form. So most of the work for the first activity [...]

Last night I did the final piece of course work for module 4 of the C&G course. It was another collage. I used wrapping paper this time. If you look carefully you can read parts of the word Christmas I wanted to try out an idea I’ve had in my head for some time [...]

Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon and early evening making collages. Not to mention most of Saturday evening choosing two images to use as inspiration. I had quite a lot of fun making them. Funnily enough apart from doing pottery the only other thing I remember from art classes at school was making a collage [...]

I was able to recycle some bits left over from other classes in this exercise for the C&G course. I tend to hoard all my samples as you never know when they may have their use. I was able to recycle a four-patch square, a strip-pieced square, a hexagon and a diamond-pieced hexagon for this activity. [...]

Module 4 of the C&G course is all about texture. The first activity as always was to collect images and other resources to illustrate texture. Being on holiday for 3 weeks gave me an opportunity to collect images from more than just the home and garden. I enjoyed being on the look out for good texture [...]