what's up?

Well, it has been a while since I have blogged.... this sounds like a medical or spiritual confession!  I haven't been sitting on my laurels though, distracted perhaps but not slacking off.  I have actually been weaving, a beautiful weave called a double weave, and its looking good.   I am in the process of getting my large 16 shaft loom working so I can make some lovely fabric, and practice some weaves I can't do on the 4 shaft.
I have also came up with an inspirational 'poem' to base a fabric collection on which is fit to turn into upholstery fabric for "The Chair".... which I am VERY excited about!  I find things need to simmer away in the brain before any great revelation..... and the inspiration for "The Chair" fabric came at 3:00am after a sleepless night and a week of worrying about family illness.... but it's not a morbid design, rather a 'reflective' one.

"Take a seat and ponder,

It doesn't matter where.

Who you are,

Where you are,

and where to go from here."

 

I also have some other philosophical ramblings, but I think I shall keep them to myself for a while.... at my age who has time for philosophy! 

 





Unexpected Design

I know, I have gone a little off hilter with my goals but I have just finished a design to enter into a competition on Spoonflower... The theme was Geek Girl!  How could I resist? :)
Anyway, I did it and I like it so here it is!

 

You can support my entry by voting for it on the spoonflower page for the Fabric8:Geek chic contest on the 23rd April. :)
Thank you

Next design project

I have taken another year off my TAFE studies at Brunswick RMIT, but have a personal goal to finish setting up my studio space, and produce a new Toile-de-joir and co-ordinates. I have defined my brief, and it feels awesome to have direction, even self-imposed direction. I have this old chair in the shed, we used to use it in our old house in NthFitzroy, but the use is really showing, so it hasn't made it out of the shed. But it has a history with us, and I cannot bear to put it out on the nature strip.... which is where we found it in Thornbury... and my georgeous friend Bec picked it up for us and squished it into her car... in the rain... and we dried it out... and we loved it till I had to sew patches onto it.... SO the Toile-de-joir is about the journey of the chair, and the final result will hopefully be the chair re-upholstered in the fabric with some comfy cushions in co-ordinate fabrics to match.

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. :)