Sumo Doorstop

When your'e on a roll... here is a doorstop I made a while ago. He's looking a bit used.... because he is! And what a great job he does. I have made this Sumo Doorstop out of scraps of calico & denim jeans, & he's been filled with those old legumes you find at the back of the pantry.... I've used ink and fabric textas to draw on the calico using techniques of a continuous line drawing in the detail of the blue ink. I was exploring the use of line in design, it was fun, relaxing and the outcome has been really useful.

I believe sustainability is important, especially in industries such as the textile industry, so making the most of the materials I have at hand, and thinking about how the fabric has been designed, printed and produced, what fibres the fabric contains, and where the materials were made is an important step towards making sustainability a factor in my textile design projects.

Cupcakes and Poodles bag

Well here is the photo of my bag!  I still love it, and it is travelling well.  As a prototype there are a couple of improvements I would make for the next one, but overall it's a great bag... not too big that I loose everything, and not so small that I can't fit those toys the kids decide to take somewhere and swear they will carry them.... know what I mean?  :0)

"Sugar & Spice and all things nice...

...thats what little girls are made of."  I have finally made something from fabric I have designed and had printed.  I brought a book on handbags from a school fete, and there was this cool pattern in it... so I made it out of the poodles and cupcakes fabric I designed as a coordinate for the Toile-de-joir fabric at TAFE...  I like it... :)
as per usuall I shall post a photo soon.....

THE desk!

Here is my beautiful desk.  If anyone has any information about what type of desk it is or what it may have been used for, I would love to hear your opinion. :)

Seeing out 2012

Out with the old, in with the new..... but if it's not broken why fix it?  Hmmmmmm so true.  It's New Years Eve 2012 and I am doing my final blog for the year.  I was hoping to put a photo of my latest project up, but I shall describe it instead.  It is an old desk, kept in my dad's garage for as long as I can remember, full of nuts & bolts and other greasy mens things.  It is now in my shed, and I am going to bring it back to life and use it as my work desk to draw and paint and design on! Oh I'm excited! My husband discovered that the two really worn patches on the front edge are perfect position for resting your elbows!  and my mother in law found some initials scratched in it.... we are all fascinated by it, and I don't actually want to over clean it... I'm intending to keep the old and add to the history.... and if I adhere to my New Years Resolutions 2013 is going to be a productive one for the old desk.... and the old loom..... and the old oil paints... and the new inspiration!
HAPPY NEW YEAR

Three of the woven chair backs.

It has been too long... but life goes on!  I have been doing a few things, such as weaving the back of some outdoor chairs that I brought BARGAIN price!  I have used recycled materials, such as the cut off selvege of some satin fabric I got from resource rescue, and some nylon selvege from a factory Dad worked at many years ago, and the final chair was cut up plastic bags crocheted into a 22m strand of 'yarn'.... I shall take some photos and put them up soon. 

I have also been working on the garden, vegi patch, and setting up my 'studio' space in the shed....  'filling the well' so-to-speak...

I also want to tell you of some exhibitions I have been to.... but have to sort out a 'toy' dilema for my little fella right now!

HOW DO MOTHER'S GET TIME TO BLOG!
Bloggers... I salute you ._____.