Threads

I started the year with a bang by going to summer school in Bathurst run by Fibre Arts Australia to do a workshop with Dionne Swift.  After an amazing informative and instructive workshop I came home thinking a lot about threads.  There is so much to learn about threads.  There is so much variety and…

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IMPROVISATION #2: Tranquility

25.5x18cm/10"x7"

I decided to make a piece for the 2017 SAQA Trunk Show. I refer to this abstract piece as an improvisational study.  The guidelines stipulated the size of 10”x7”. I had no idea what I wanted to create so again I decided to let the fabric speak to me and guide me. I took out…

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Hexagon Etude quilt

First day of September and it feels like spring is here.  My Manchurian Pear blossoms are slowly emerging and the jonquils are flowering beautifully. The last week and a bit I have been very busy.  Or should I say life was hectic.  Our youngest son and family were here for a week’s skiing, I continued…

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A bit of this and a bit of that

I have been rather quiet but have been busy.  I have been making cushions with my hand dyed eco prints.   Then from 12 August we were involved with a group of skiers from Lithuania.  They had come for the World Lithuanian Ski races that they had organised to be held the following weekend at…

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