Hills Garden 40 x 40cms I like to make small collections of my hand printed and dyed fabrics – some are experimental, some offcuts, some just precious pieces. It often takes a quite a long time before the collection becomes a ‘something’! The leaf prints in the quilt above, were done when we lived in Kalgoorlie […]
I’m doing the Roy G Biv challenge again & this month’s colour is metallic gold. Check Jennifer Coyne Qudeen’s blog for links to other challenge participants. The 1st pic is a page from a book making workshop I recently did with Ro Bruhn. It includes some stitching with gold thread in the bobbin – top […]
This is my quilt, Roses are Red… made for ‘Living Colour’ but not selected again (detail below) Oh well – try again next year! The main red fabric is wool, screen printed with thickened acid milling dyes. The print was from my charcoal drawing which I made into a photographic stencil. The rose leaves were printed […]
I went to pick up my 2 pieces from the Minnawarra Art Awards this morning and found out the quilt (above) was sold. I’m very happy someone liked it enough to buy it, but I know I underpriced it. I was in such a rush getting my entry in and had to price it before […]
This is a chalky pastel drawing on fabric made permanent by a layer of clear printing ink over the top which is the heat set when dry. Below: sample pieces of the same process. The flower was thermofax printed then coloured with the pastels. 2 new thermofax screen designs, printed in my sketchbook below. Below […]