Restarting Blog

 After a period doing other things I am restarting 

More Fabric Postcards

I have just posted a new set of postcards to my friends in New Zealand.  Enjoyed doing the hand stitching at our Quilt Retreat at Boonah Queensland.  I used my hand dyed fabric for the cards.

cheers Rebecca

Back - Catch up on Work

I have been away for a long time and thought I would share photographs of some of the work I have done in the interim.  Some of my capsule work for my Open College of the Arts unit A Texile Vocabulary which I passed in December 2017. Experimenting with recycled shirts and embellishments. I procion dyed the original white shirts and added cutout work type embellishment.

Postcards for my postcard swap to New Zealand.

More to come.

cheers Rebecca

Indigo Dyeing

i have started doing experiments with natural dyes. I decided to use natural indigo and the 123 method of preparing a vat. I prepared a mini vat in a large bottle and dyed cotton pieces, silk pieces, watercolour paper and cotton threads. I was really happy with the result as I have not prepared this type of vat before.

I took a photo of my results using the various fibres.  I plan to use the pieces to make a Dye Journal and to do some boro type stitching.

cheers

Rebecca

St Paul's Quilt Show Ipswich Qld

I was very happy to be invited to display my contemporary and art quilts at the St Paul's Anglican Church Quilt Show in Ipswich Qld.

I chose quilts inspired by workshops with Nancy Crow, Gwen Marston and City and Guilds Assessment Pieces.  I also added art quilts which had been exhibited in New Zealand at various locations in the Wellington region.

Here are a couple of photographs.

The Show is on until Sunday 7 May.

I have had to stop doing the Weekly Art Challenge because I injured my right elbow and have been having physiotherapy on my arm.  It is still painful doing hand sewing and cutting out and I have to keep making sure I do not overuse it.  So may resume later.

cheers  Rebecca

My nine Palm Tree blocks - Weekly Art Project

As promised I took a photograph of all nine of my weekly Palm Trees (representing Weeks 5 to 13 of the Weekly Art Project 2017).  They look colourful together I think.  All improvisionally pieced.

I have not decided how I will present the finished images yet.  Still thinking!!!!

take care
Rebecca

Week 13 Weekly Art Project

Well I now have nine palm tree inspired quilts.  Week 13 of the Weekly Art Project sees me using indigo dyed fabric for the palm tree.

I will take a photo and of the nine palm tree blocks  and post later.

cheers Rebecca