Lino printing with kids
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- Published on Monday, 30 April 2012 10:26
I was supposed to be doing some college work this weekend for my printing course but both of my children were so facinated with what I was doing that they wanted to have a go...
My son was so made up with how his turned out...
Needless to say I got none of my work done but we had so much fun and they got such a sense of achievement from it.
Lino Printing
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- Published on Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:51
Lino Printing today...
Based on this image of bark
Liver Cirrhosis
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- Published on Sunday, 04 March 2012 10:22
Whilst doing my 'printing1' course with OCA I cannot help but continue to work with textiles so I have been working on several personal projects and ideas.
The current project is based again on health issues namely alcoholism and liver cirrhosis. I have been working on a sample based on an image of liver cirrhosis....
Felted and dyed machine knitted sample with glass nuggets.
Knitting Machine
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- Published on Friday, 02 March 2012 15:02
Just before Christmas I bought myself a second hand refurbished Knitmaster knitting machine. Excitedly I have been testing, swatching and experimenting ever since.
Recently I decided to attempt my first garment...
Knitted in cotton and then dyed grey.
I am really pleased with it but I still have a lot to learn.
Lost in Lace
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 February 2012 15:32
I visited Lost in Lace in Birmingham last weekend and was truly blown away... It was stunning and so very inspiring!
One of the biggest highlights for me was After the Dream - Chiharu Shiota. It felt very dream like, albeit quite a dark dream and really quite unnerving. The inability to see a way of getting to the dresses felt disturbing and frustrating, they are consumed within twisted and knotted black threads from floor to ceiling. It really was quite a moving exhibit and I will certainly be keeping an eye on future work. You can see more of the artists work here...
After the Dream - Chiharu Shiota
The No Reverse Lace of Ali Matsumoto was beautiful. Imprints of lace handkerchiefs have been taken in silicone to leave subtle translucent impressions that had been over stitched in areas in a white read. Viewable from both side they coved an entire wall.
Ai Matsumoto
How could I leave out the only knitted exhibit? Jacquard machine cards were knitted together to form a wall. Jacquard cards are very like machine knitting pattern cards and have a series of holes all over them creating a lace like surface already but Suzumi Noda then knitted them together with a industrial type thread to create this large lace like panel.
Suzumi Noda
I left with my head spinning with so many ideas. There is still a week to catch this fabulous exhibition.
Reversing Diabetes?
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- Published on Friday, 13 January 2012 12:24
This blog post is different from my usual yarn related posts, but I really wanted to tell you about something else I have been doing recently...
A few years ago I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. My diabetic nurse told me that I now had it for life and I became resigned to it. I gradually needed to take an increasing amount of tablets which started to get quite depressing. Around this time I read a news article about being able to reverse Type 2 Diabetes on very low calorie diet I got thinking and spent some time researching other possibilities.
