This is the light shade in my bedroom. What was once an ordinary white shade has been revamped with a length of ribbon with hanging coloured glass beads. Just a bit of PVA glue , some clamps and voila beaute. The beaded ribbon was in a bag of lacey scraps from a fellow Broadstroker , Ali. The ribbon was exactly the right length to go around, truely, nothing leftover and all the way around.
I made this pocket called ‘Lucy Locket’s Pocket’ inspired by reading The Pocket : A Hidden History of Women’s Lives by Barbara Burman and Ariana Fennetaux. Then synchronicity occurred as Tara Axford and Australian artist posted a picture on Instagram of a pocket she had made, also inspired by this book. She called for textile artists to do the same and post a picture of the finished pocket. There have been many beautiful ones posted with the Instagram tag #pocketsofcreation.
It is made from a collaged front on canvas using inks, paper, cutouts and stitch. The ties are perfect and they match the theme well with the image of Little Bo Peep searching for her sheep. This piece was all I had in my haberdashery stash so used up something , or rather converted a found piece into textile art. I thought Lucy Locket would have a wee dolly in her pocket made by her grandma.
These two are not complete yet. Need to take more of the whiteness of the transfer off. Also I am not sure of the cut outs and the line in the square one needs softening, maybe more tree and branch lines
I have started a new online course with @fibreartstaketwo presented by Cordula Kagemann . It is a collage course and I realise that even though I have done or attempted several textile collages I have never really explored paper collage. So I am enjoying the process, it is fast and I find I can work intuitively whereas with textiles I take so long to decide on placement, fabric, colour let alone the stitching that then needs to occur before it looks like anything acceptable.
The first photo is a quick intuitive magazine page collage and the other three are several stages in the process being taught, with more to be added.
