printing at Llantrisant

Had another lovely weekend teaching at Llantrisant with a felt group, who all worked really hard and did a wide variety of printing with Thermofax screens,using natural dye extracts.It's always a joy to see other people using the same basic methods,yet coming up with such different results.

Loved these little chickens.

I love this but I can't turn it round the right way-sorry!

This lovely sample is Mandy's,who organised the weekend in the lovely Model  House craft centre,where the facilities were excellent.I'm sure she will do wonderful things with all her printing when time allows.

Pat's trees with woad and rust worked well and will go on to be developed into a final piece for her exhibition later in the year. 

I love the 'drawn' feel of Claire's images on muslin.All together a very happy weekend and thank you Pat for the hospitality.

  

Time flies

Horrified to see how long it is since I blogged,and where on earth has the time gone?Not much studio work going on at present and both computers playing up badly,but here are some pictures of the printing on felt workshop-some lovely work in lovely surroundings.

A lovely ,fine print with a great feeling of calm to it.

This shows the detail possible with the method.

Some of the wall paintings and a feel of how much work was done.

  Words of a very small size are possible and are a favourite of mine.

This piece really shows the beauty of the natural dyes.Finally,my favourite painting in the hall.

This is the Sunday school and some of the well behaved girls are still alive and in a care home in the village. 

Back from the forest.

Back today from a lovely weekend in the new  Forest,teaching Thermofax printing to an IFA group.They all did some wonderful work-pictures later when Sarah sends them,asthis idiot forgot the camera.The village hall wAs wonderful-WOOD GREEN-worth a check on Google.

For the group,the e mail for my silk supplier is  angkoushk@netvigator.com- web site

www.angelfire.com/biz2/angussilkshongkong.

This one is for Helen

Need I say more??

found,stitched and dyed

I'm taking part in the stitching circle project organised by India Flint,with some of my friends.Re-cycling is something I've always been interested  in and I'm particularly fascinated by Japanese Boro textiles,so when I saw the idea posted on India's blog ,I couldn't resist.My cloth came from a French Brocante and has some beautiful darns in it,as well as a perfect 'sides to middle'join in what must have been a sheet which just couldn't be thrown out.My idea is to add to the history of the cloth by stitching fabric given to me by friends and found by me on my travels,so that I create my own history.This is it so far.

It will all be dyed at the very end of the project when groups of the sewing circle meet together,hopefully.I keep thinking about the discomfort of whoever had to sleep on the darned area!And,who would bother to darn an easy care sheet these days?What have we lost?
Finally,why are the Morning Glories flowering so profusely ,now that the weather is colder?

WINTER IS COMING!

The temperature has really dropped over the last couple of days,so much so that everyone wanted to be inside in the cafes when we went to the market on Sunday-a bit of a change from basking in the glorious sunshine.I will need to do my last Japanese indigo dyeing tomorrow,before the colder weather realy sets in.At present ,the plants are lovely and bushy and this will be the second picking-maybe stronger blues? More of that later.Meanwhile

Rusty metal wrapped in cling film,sitting in the sun-will we be able to do any more rusting outside or will it have to be the wood burner again?

One I did earlier.A subtle combination of grey/rust which comes from Russian Earl Grey Tea.I love the fact that the rust dyeing never works out the same way twice,very unpredictable.Also, depends on the base fabric of course.

Online course work

The front cover of Daphnes book-not finished yet, but looking good.

One of the pages-spot the ammaretti wrappers!This will be a lovely book when it is finished .

Finally, a pictture of a Klimt inspired piece of work using naturally dyed fibre and pre-felt,in lovely subtle colours.Just about to be felted down finally,so covered in plastic.That was a good week!