A finishing

 Finished these two small tree decorations. Not sure how long they have been sitting waiting. The Father Christmas comes from a pattern given to me in 1997 for thanks from the president of Coorparoo Quilters when I was workshop assistant. There were several patterns and I did make up this Father Christmas head when I first got it. I imagine I liked it so much that I wanted to make another but got bored with the repetition.

Tonight we are putting up the Christmas tree . It will be fun seeing all the decorations I have made over the years.

Christmas

 I need to make a Christmas tree decoration for Harriet’s first Christmas. When my girls were young I would make them each a new one each year for the tree but haven’t touched Christmas crafts, quilts, stitchings for several years. There never seemed the need as I had so much to put up around my house and on the tree. So I pulled out my quite small box of Christmas fabrics and found several well intending to make patterns , and some half started or cut out decorations ready to complete.

I will attempt to finish some of these for this year. I already have a plan for Harriet’s angel. Need to have it done for a Tuesday when she will be here to help decorate my tree. 🌲 

Sketchbook

 A Page in my sketchbook. Water soluble crayons, aquarelles, eye drawing. All smushed around with a paint brush and water.

I am doing a fabulous online class with @laurakemshall . Mixed media with paint, collage overlay sketching so far there are three videos yet to watch, but so far it is very good.  The idea for this page however did not come from the course but I put it in anyway. 

This page is painted with acrylics, the houses are frottage on lunchwrap with a graphite crayon, then attached with gel medium. Figures drawn with graphite, around the paint that serendipitously appeared on the page. Leaving home or heading out on adventure .

Mixed Media

 I worked on these today as I was feeling really unsettled. Went to yoga this morning on the river bank at Yeronga, Japanese yoga. When I got home I felt more energised and got lost in the flow of making these four small mixed media pieces.

They are collaged papers, fabric, some lace and then inks acrylics and aquarelles. This was a free online class #artistsoulretreat with @lalymille.

Treasure Box

 I was involved in a swap for ATASDA this year. Each person created a tiny treasure and sent to their partner. The partner then had to make a receptacle for the treasure to be contained in. So this is the receptacle I made for my partner Mary . She made the brooch that can be seen inside the opened box.

When I first for the treasure I felt it needed to be in a box lined in black velvet. Stitched some feather stitch stems in a variety of threads that match the fibre work on the front of the brooch. These will be on display in NSW later in the year.  Looking forward to see the receptacle for my tiny treasure angel. 

Bookmaking with markmaking

 

I had tried to put up a video of a small book I have made but the file is too large. So instead here is a video taken in August this year in North Queensland, near Airlie Beach. It was here that I collected some beautiful pieces of driftwood. Not sure what for  but I liked them. After returning home I enrolled in an online course through FibreArts with Lorna Crane. One of the first things I needed was some driftwood to make handles for home made brushes for mark making. 

So the book I tried to put up was of some marks made with these brushes .  I will take photos. It is a great class and still going. Today I will do some mark making with my own visual language onto cloth, silk, muslin, calico.