I’ve not been working on my C&G’s the last couple of weekends because of one thing and another. One thing being, I have been doing a bit of dressmaking for a change. I think I mentioned that I bought some linen to make a dress at the fabric market a few weeks ago now. [...]
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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 [...] As promised here are some photos of the Plaza Redonda in Valencia. It is a circular space created in the mid-19th Century on the site of the former slaughterhouse for the Mercado Central. There are stalls selling all kinds of bits and bobs and locally made crafts. We were lucky to find some craft [...] Today we went into the centre of Valencia to look around. Near to the Central Market we discovered a small round area like a mini market with stalls selling haberdashery and needlework supplies. It was thanks to Sqeze, because he took a detour down an interesting little side street. I was so busy looking [...] I bought some linen at the Stoffmarkt Holland to sew myself a summer dress. So as I didn’t have access to the next module of my C&G course I made a start on it last Thursday, which was a public holiday here. The pattern is from a Burda magazine I bought last summer. [...] I had a nice surprise today when the postman came. These two books arrived from my cousin Bernadette in the UK. Thank you! The one on the left is from 1987 and has some interesting ideas for using different materials in appliqué such as cords, ribbons, beads and buttons. There are also ideas [...] I spent quite a few evenings this week hand embroidering the edges of the leaves on my broderie perse piece. It was quite hard work sometimes where the acrylic paint was quite thick and I ended up with a blunt needle. Originally it had been my intention to only use one half of [...] A tiny picture in the latest GEO magazine caught my eye. I’ve seen pictures before of the art of Deborah Sperber composed entirely of spools of sewing thread. It really is quite extraordinary. I can’t begin to imagine how you go about assembling the huge numbers of cotton reels needed to produce the finished [...] When I started module 3 and was looking at the activities that were coming up, I thought what a coincidence it was, as I had just been reading about broderie perse at womenfolk.com. It is one of the techniques I am learning in this module. Take a look at the article at womenfolk.com to [...] Having finished the one needlepoint cushion cover the second of the old patchwork cushion covers started coming apart at the seams. So I ordered another needlepoint kit. I enjoy doing needlepoint and as a cushion cover it is hard wearing. This time as I couldn’t find a printed kit that I liked I ordered [...] |
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