Today was a miserable good and grey day. A good enough reason to not venture out of the house but stay in and make more progress. I finished off the needlepoint cushion cover I started last year at about this time It is now on stretcher bars becoming square again. I can’t work with [...]
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Today I pasted together the pieces of the line drawing to make one image and then made the traced copy using vellum. I then tried unsuccessfully to transfer the markings to the muslin. I only had yellow dressmakers carbon paper and that really wasn’t good enough. I can just about see half of the [...] I’ve enrolled in a course at Quilt University on fabric portraits. It’s given by Marilyn Belford, who has made many award-winning fabric portraits. I’m going to make a fabric portrait of my Dad from this photo. To make a pattern for the quilt, I need to take a photograph of the subject and posterize [...] I have been playing around with ideas for my container. It will be my first assessment piece for the C&Gs course. I’m not going to say too much about it now. It’s still very much on the drawing board and anyway I don’t want to give the game away Here are some photos of [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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