This post is a little late but last Week in the Studio I had fun doing some eco printing experiments. I followed Nichola Brown’s ebook on Eco Printing and was very pleased with the results. I used some narrow strips of wool blanket with the aim of making them into small scrolls in the future. Here are the pieces:
This week I have been working on a Circle challenge by Lisbeth Degn I have only just started and the challenge is half way over! I am inspired by friends who are doing the challenge and Rita Summers of Gone Rustic. I want to add to my textile vocabulary and have chosen to work small collaging on to a khadi paper book. The brown piece is a teabag using a South African tea.
I have also been learning to machine couch and plan on using this technique in my textile practice.
I have been working in my Studio each day this week working on a variety of projects.
First I have eco printed some fabric and papers using a free type approach. I mordanted the fabric in alum and then sandwiched with leaves from my garden between some thick cardboard squares and tied tightly I placed in water on the stove in which I had placed some onion skins and some rusty bits and simmered for one and a half hours. I was aiming to get fairly abstract prints. The results below
I also worked on my two sketchbook challenges - one a wee altered book and the other mainly abstract pages.
On my design wall a have a large procion dyed whole cloth pieces. I am studying it to hopefully get inspiration to complete on the theme of Place.
