
Following the Thread
Well, I was full of good intentions..... A funny thing happens when there is no deadline any more. I imagine that this occurs in the case of many artists, not just me, but I'm so much less focused and…
Well, I was full of good intentions..... A funny thing happens when there is no deadline any more. I imagine that this occurs in the case of many artists, not just me, but I'm so much less focused and…
Having finished my piece I was feeling very motivated to go back and follow the "threads" that I started exploring in my development process. However, there was a slight hitch in that I had an impendi…
For the past couple of weeks I've been working non-stop on constructing the table runner and hand stitching details on it. I abandoned you all for a while but there wasn't much to say except I was sti…
Yesterday I finished the stitching on the outside edges of my piece and then cut some batting just a little smaller than it and layered those two with some black felt (for the backing). I safety pinne…
Well, after yesterday's warts and all expose I'm trying to claw back some credibility by showing you how it has all come together.All four panels comw together.Today I joined up the fourth panel and d…
I have basically spent the last week at the sewing machine and fatigue is setting in. I identified some technical issues surrounding parts of the design which were not going to match up due to differe…
So, I met my 10 bobbins a day target for 3 of the 4 days I have spent so far stitching my piece. Each day it got a little harder and on day four I got to 9 but had some time trialing thread colour com…
There are quite a few things I want to talk about today. First, in these final stages of producing my textile piece, I feel the need to recapitulate and tell you -in a more organised manner- about th…
So, Monday was a whole day of printing. I really miss spending days at RMIT just designing, sampling, producing....making, making, making. I had forgotten how tiring it can be though, I can't believe …
When involved in intensive stitching of a repetitive nature one's mind tends to wander. One of the thoughts that crossed my mind today was that I probably had not made clear to the uninitiated what di…