Summer School and Mix it Up

The SA Embroiderers Guild Summer School starts tomorrow. Unfortunately the classes I really wanted to do didn't have enough sign ups and had to be cancelled which was very disappointing. Still I am going to learn a new skill - Kumihomo braiding. I chose this class because I only need to spend $3.50 on a disk and I had everything else.
I haven't done much on the embroidery front for some time cause I have to work for a living and I've had the chance to do lots of overtime. This is going to pay for my cruise in November.
I'll have more time for creating now though and I'll be starting on things for our Mix It Up exhibition and sale at Easter. More to come soon.

T'Arts Display

I spent yesterday setting up our display and sale at T'Arts.

T'Arts is an art collective in Gays Arcade which runs off Rundle Malls Adelaide Arcade.

My stitching friend Margaret Marsh is a member there and invited several of her fellow stitchers from the South Australian Embroiderers Guild No Limits group to join her for the month of October.
I was thrilled to be one of those involved.

I decided to remake a nuno felt vest I made some years ago that I'd never worn as it was to big and just didn't look right on me. Of course once I'd finished remaking it I fell in love with it and it looks great on me now. Isn't it always the way.

 

You can just see the buttons I agonized over which do look great. Below is a close up.

 I used this photo for some cards that are also for sale in addition to the books I made.

This one is my favourite

If you are in Adelaide and would like to see more of the amazing art works including wearables and some beatuiful bags, glass and wood please head along to T'Arts.

Books

I am making some books for our display at T'Arts in Gays Arcade Adelaide. A group of us have a display there for the month of October and I was thrilled to be invited to be involved. I am exhibiting (and maybe selling) the felt vest I have been fiddling with for so long and a group of hand stitched books. Here's a little taste of the books I made. this one is a page a day journal - that means there is a page to use every day for a little drawing or some words. I am thinking of making a little bag to store it in, what do you think?

Goolwa Beach Walk

I took a day off from the creating today and we went to the beach. It's been one of those amazingly perfect weekends weather wise. That was our reward for the horror weather we had all week. I did do some painting for another book cover before we went but the chance to walk on the beach and eat some delicious seafood was to great to resist. I found a lovely piece of driftwood and brought home some shells. In the photo you can just see the sea mist in the distance.
The boronia will be amazing in a week or so

If you'd like to see what we ate and some more photos pop over too my other blog Peta Eats

Artists Statement Part 3

This is it. I am not going to look at it again for a few days. I tend to fiddle with something so long that I end up wrecking it. 

Re-Use, Re-New, Re-Purpose.

Love of textile art is part of my life. My type of meditation is to create something and that feeds the creative yearnings of my heart.

My artistic journey has travelled through many genres including art and bookmaking but always leads back to textiles. My favorite pieces are thoses that combine the impractical into something practical. My latest pieces combine new work with Ephemera I have rescued, creating tangible works of very personal art. Those transformations are equal parts joy and frustration.

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Artists Statement Part 2

The photo above has nothing to do with this post but I love this piece of work I did in 2010 so I thought I'd show you again.

I am still pondering and procrastinating over my artists statement. I did find these websites Artists Statement'  and Molly Gordon's advice which I am intending to peruse in greater detail. This is what I have so far - a big improvement on 'I like to make stuff and if I sell it Yay for me.'

Re-Use, Re-New, Re-Purpose.

A love of textile art has always been part of my life - To pass time, to feed the creative yearnings of my heart and as my own personal type of meditation.

That journey has travelled through many genres including art and book making. 

I love creating pieces that combine new work with rescued Ephemera.

That's better isn't it.

Crocheted Edges

 I am adding some ornametation to the felt jacket. I've crocheted a braid and added to one of the collars.




I've also blanket stitched along the other edge to add a crocheted edge. It was taking so long to try and just crochet it.




I am still working out what type of button to use.