Artwork and garments made from or incorporating fibre and textile.
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? We have now been asking each other that question for a total of eleven years now! Not that I was involved at the beginning, but I've been around for a good few years. We usually do an ATC (Artist Trading Card) swap to celebrate the anniversary but…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I've actually spent quite a bit of time in the studio this week, making cards. Wonders will never cease. More Florabunda Drawings This week I have completed another set of Florabunda drawings from the three drawings I made which I scanned into the computer. This is the…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Celtic Knot Motifs This week I've been working on the Celtic knot motifs again, this time using the Procreate drawing app on the iPad. I wanted to try and create a metallic gold look and think I've semi-succeeded! This is the first rendering. I experimented a bit,…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Teabag Bleaching I've been bleaching teabags again! You may remember a few months ago I had virtually given up on this project because I couldn't get a satisfactory result. The other day I had a new idea - to use the Clorox Bleach Pen on the wooden…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I have to say nothing much has changed on mine this week. Still the same detritus mid-project, working on the auto-opening window cards I was doing last week. I got my friend's card off a day late because the glue wasn't dry, and it took an extra…
Time for my annual review at the close of the year. This year has passed so quickly that it has left me gasping. The days seem to have flashed past me like for the hero of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine... For some of the time, it's been more a case of what…
Updated! New photos of Tudor gown below... What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I have tidied up! I still have a lot of fabric scraps to tidy up and reorganise, but it's so good to be able to see some surfaces again, and to be able to move round the room a bit…
Cutting it fine... The last couple of days before the Tudor banquet on Saturday, I had to pull out all the stops to get everything finished in time. Yesterday I worked on the braid and pearl embellishments on the bodice, and today I sorted the jewellery and made one or two necessary adjustments…
I must apologise for not visiting people last week, and for not replying to the lovely comments I received, but I'm going all out on trying to finish the Tudor gown in time for Saturday. What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? The usual chaos, with some new additions! On my desk you can…
I spent a considerable amount of time and effort drafting a pattern for the sleeves. I cut one out in old sheeting as a mock-up and tacked it onto the bodice and tried it on. This way I could see what alterations needed to be made. Initially I cut the pattern in the…
