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Draw Something Every Day
The Draw Something Every Day challenge. I only managed to draw on one day, so this is it. But I probably wouldn’t have done any at all without the challenge. And today is a new week! The post Draw...
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more French knots and other dots
I hoped I would get a bit more done last week, art-wise, than I did, but there was more work (day job) than I expected (which is good, really) and so in the end I was squeezing the art in around it. I...
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seeing shapes
OCA Textiles 1 is (obviously) a textile course, but a significant proportion of the exercises involve design work on paper – I’m still not sure what I think about this or whether I’ll continue to work...
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I have been mulling over Sharon B’s Take it Further challenge for January – this is from her blog: The key concept for January is a feeling we have all had, the feeling of admiration for another. Ask...
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TIF challenge January 2
I’ve got my first ideas down in my sketchbook. One of the images that’s playing in my mind is tendrils, and serendipitously we were tidying up a mass of clematis this afternoon so I rescued some to...
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TIF Challenge January 3
I spent some time this weekend sampling and exploring my ideas – I was planning to stop with the visual journal and not make a textile piece but one is emerging anyway. Here I’ve tried out some ways of...
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thinking about cloth and limitation
The first task for starting work on manipulating fabrics was to sort the fabrics into colour groups, and the course suggests two hours to do that and cut samples from each type of fabric for a...
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April TIF Challenge 4
I forgot to include the earlier experiments, which are now in my sketchbook, in my last post – the links are to the images on Flickr. couching, knitting, sketchbook 1, sketchbook 2 The post April TIF...
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felt under fabric
When I was working on this quilted hanging, one of my aims was to use felt as the wadding in a way that made its colour a central element of the design. I’m still thinking about that, so today I’ve...
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developing designs
I’ve been in a hiatus for months as far as my OCA Textiles course is concerned – stuck at the beginning of a module I really want to spend time on and enjoy – applied and manipulated fabrics. The...
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