At our April and May meetings there was quite a bit of Show and Tell from the members. It is great to get inspiration from other members in this way and also to get positive feedback on our pieces. In April Jacqui had done some wonderful cloth dyeing based on the February swing tag technique [...]
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Show and Tell
Posted in Bookmaking, Dyeing, Embroiderer's guild, Exhibitions, Machine Embroidery, Workshops on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
May Melange
Posted in Bleaching, Machine Embroidery, Printing on May 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A medley of fabrics came in for the bleach treatment at our May meeting of the creative textilers. We experimented with a variety of cotton and synthetic fabrics, some of which showed a great colour reaction to the the bleach. Some of the fabrics resulted in a very subtle embossed pattern where the bleach removed [...]
Fabricate 09
Posted in Art Dolls, Dyeing, Embroiderer's guild, Machine Embroidery, Printing, TAG, Weaving on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today Pauleen and I made the trek up the Melbourne/Geelong Rd to the opening of the Fabricate 09 exhibition by the TAG (Textile Art @ the Guild) group. There was a wonderfully diverse range of textile art by invited artists from Australia and internationally, including art dolls, indigo dyeing, felting, weaving, free machine embroidery and printing. [...]
Select group powers on
Posted in ATC's, Journals, Machine Embroidery, Sculpted Books on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The latest get together of our group was held on Easter Saturday and so numbers were reduced. Those who did attend however, achieved much, in planning the schedule for the rest of the year. Here is a report from Pauleen outlining plans for the next meeting: At our Saturday gathering we agreed to start [...]
A multitude of creative activity
Posted in ATC's, Embroiderer's guild, Machine Embroidery, Workshops on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post of our March Creative textile arts group day is a little delayed. My computer and phone refuse to communicate via bluetooth, so I will have to physically connect the phone via a lead (which I haven’t yet purchased). Update: No lead available. Son no 2 has bluetoothed photos from my phone to his [...]
