Again a little delay in my
blogging..........this time due to a rather lovely break in Scotland followed by a couple
nights in the Lake District!
But before we get to
that...............Day Two of the Collage Workshop at
St Eval, was a
fabulous day, thank you Ladies.
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| Inktense Blocks |
We had a great time adding colour to fabric with my favourite medium - Inktense Blocks
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| Fabric Paper |
Making some
beautiful pieces of Fabric Paper!
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| First Free Machining |
And also investigating 'mark-making' with Free Machining and another spot of Hand Stitching.
It was great to see my enthusiasm for these techniques
rubbing off.....
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| Artist at work! |
I'm looking forward
to seeing which of these new and 'younique' fabrics will be used in the collages at this weeks Workshop. Photos will of course follow.
Not wanting to miss out on any opportunity, I couldn't resist showing the ladies the effect of heat (in the form of an iron) being applied to a beautifully painted plastic bag which had been used to protect the table! The resulting texture will most likely become part of my Challenge 2018 at some point!
Talking of my Challenge, I seem to have a little catching up to do, so here are the latest two that I have finished.
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| Challenge 2018 - Week 17 |
Week 17 is another weave. While I was getting samples ready for last workshop I used a small piece of muslin to 'mop-up' the excess paint.
The resulting fabric was rather lovely and
so I used it for the challenge.
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| Challenge 2018 - Week 18 |
Challenge 2018 - Week 18 is a study of stitches on a piece of Inktense painted fabric. I have been making samples up for the workshops and loved the simplicity of the stitches, so decided to use them to add texture to the fabric.
Now back to our northern
adventures.....
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| Arran in the Sunset |
Every now and then we all need to step away from the norm and
take a little time out.
This was us, so a trip to Scotland was called for to visit our oldest and dearest Friends.
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| Corsewall Point |
The weather was very kind and showed
Ayrshire off at its very best.
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| Brodick - Isle of Arran |
We also had a long a-waited trip to the Isle of Arran, which was planned to perfection with flat calm seas for both the out-going and home-coming ferry crossings. We whiled away several hours beach combing in the glorious sunshine and came home with some rather lovely 'finds'.
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| Brodick Beach - Isle of Arran |
The Gorgeous Girl was a superstar and had the greatest fun with her oldest pal.
I was very spoilt, while we where there and was treated to a
'school loom' from WeftBlown, which I am so excited about using.
I love doing a bit of weaving, (you may
have noticed if you follow my blog) and have wanted a loom for a while now.
It will be an adventure experimenting so
please watch this space for my attempts.
Thank you again for popping by, there will be more on our adventures in the north in my next blog......
Carolyn
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