That is the patchwork top I made last weekend. Ok. So it wasn’t last weekend. I wagged one day last week. Well, sort of. You see, my daughter, who has High Functioning Autism, had her orientation day at secondary school. It was only a half day. And she had to be there at 9am. And… Read More
Last week I talked about the use of mood boards for focussing your thoughts and the direction you may want to take your art work. Following on from the lesson on mood boards, I tried to introduce my students to the idea of collecting the materials they thought may fit in with where their mood… Read More
When I started cross stitching over 20 years ago, I chose a kit of the Serenity Prayer. It was a beautiful design, stitched on 32ct linen. It was a large design, with many colour changes. This kit ended up in the rubbish bin. Why? I made a mistake in counting somewhere and could not find… Read More
I feel as though this week is going so fast! Between work and family, I have been really busy – as per usual! Monday night it was sit and sew, Tuesday night I think I was at home – DH had cricket training, because he is the coach. Wednesday night was our Year 12 Graduation… Read More
Monday night I attended my regular sit and sew up at Mrs Martin’s. Over the past year or so I have been slowly working on Leanne Beasley’s “Down In The Garden” project. Initially it took me a while to get started, because I was not sure about cutting into the Rural Jardin fabrics from the… Read More
As part of the Blogging Your Way course, we were given the optional homework of creating a mood board to help us visualise what our blogs were about. Through this activity, I discovered that mood boards, also known as inspiration boards and design boards were useful in helping to focus your thought processes and where… Read More
For quite a while now I have been wanting to make samplers for my daughters to celebrate each year of their lives. I originally came across this idea on Anne’s blog, Tempus Fugit. When the lovely ladies at Blackbird Designs released the Anniversaries of the Heart Series, I decided it was time to start stitching… Read More
According to Wikipedia, wearable art is individually designed pieces of (usually) hand-made clothing or jewelry created as fine or expressive art. While the making of any article of clothing or other wearable object typically involves aesthetic considerations, the term wearable art implies that the work is intended to be accepted as a serious and unique artistic creation… Read More
and is it possible to have a group of primarily 14 year old boys (18 of them!) create some wearable art, using needle and thread? What are your thoughts on the matter? I would really love to know. Leave me a comment and I will continue with this musing later today…
In 2008 I participated in the Embroiderer’s Guild of Victoria’s Art for the Stitch course. For some of us, this was a course that we had long wanted to do, but intended to take our art no further. For others, we used it as a precursor for doing the Textile Arts diploma at Box Hill TAFE College.… Read More
