tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936741072073594652024-03-13T12:30:36.563-07:00A little bit of everythingA little bit of everythingemma-alittlebitofeverythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07048285426217714669noreply@blogger.comBlogger257125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593674107207359465.post-78943124259164232872021-04-02T09:25:00.006-07:002021-04-02T09:25:47.609-07:00<p> Please join me at my first Virtual Exhibition, a sign of the new kind of times we are living in. </p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt2N3MCEjj6EMYlN3vODivPYgVSCuYKkuigQmtEMZudyX_TCo32kLVou9RnjmEBBOKfB8aCiKrtV8cKQMDgIfPENqHnFQV8Fz3sLz0be7830GXEp8l1slqMM4kZ_FA1o0HKsutm2qcYGEV/s1080/exhibition.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt2N3MCEjj6EMYlN3vODivPYgVSCuYKkuigQmtEMZudyX_TCo32kLVou9RnjmEBBOKfB8aCiKrtV8cKQMDgIfPENqHnFQV8Fz3sLz0be7830GXEp8l1slqMM4kZ_FA1o0HKsutm2qcYGEV/s320/exhibition.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;">https://www.facebook.com/SKYEGALLERYONLINE</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;">I can also be found on facebook & instagram</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;">https://www.facebook.com/emma.siedlecollins<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"> https://www.instagram.com/escskye/</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"> See you there! <br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"><br /></p>emma-alittlebitofeverythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07048285426217714669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593674107207359465.post-1624522577026047742019-03-07T14:07:00.000-08:002019-03-07T14:08:06.360-08:00First day at the SECC, GlasgowI've had a great first day at the Exhibition Center in Glasgow at The Creative Craft & Scottish Quilting Show, where I get the chance to demonstrate, thanks to the organisers at ICHF. My theme this year is 'Between the Tides' a theme that will last me the rest of my life!<br />
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People seem to love the sketchbooks & I reassure them that if I can make one for myself, then so can they - it's amazing to be able to inspire oneself just by putting a few marks down, representing something you either see or think about & keeping it safely in a recycled book. It doesn't have to be perfect, in fact that word just isn't in my vocabulary & I like to reassure others of that.<br />
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I'm in with some good company which I find delightful - Jennie Rayment, Sheena Norquay, Wendy Dolan, Val Hughes, Helen McCook, Gillian Cooper, Kerry Mosley & the Queen of Rust, Bex Raven. I'll be able to get round to see more of the lovely work on their stands tomorrow after 'settling in' today.<br />
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Also along the theme of Between the Tides is a workshop I'm doing nest week in 2 parts at the local college, I'm hoping it will run but peeps seem to be pretty busy at this time of year!<br />
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It's kind of an abstract bit of shoreline, rock & sea or even sky!<br />
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I'm making a few sample pages in a BtT sketch book, for me & for the next workshop, 3 little sections which show a progression from sketch to stitch (or collage to sketch to stitch) with a collage in between - it's ongoing.....<br />
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I haven't done as much stitching as I'd have liked over the last couple of months but I did enter some local photos into a fundraising calendar competion!<br />
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I made a few sketch/collage a day pieces, I allow myself not to panic if it's not every day<br />
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I've done some bright 'relief' stitching, well, just for the hey!<br />
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& of course a few heart cards for Valentine's Day ;) <br />
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Looking forward to another funfilled day at the show tomorrow, & more stitching of course.emma-alittlebitofeverythinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07048285426217714669noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593674107207359465.post-82051075010665592542018-12-16T09:29:00.000-08:002018-12-16T09:29:12.262-08:00Time Passing<br />
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Sometimes it seems like a long time has passed in seconds, at other times a short time takes an age. It depends how full to the brim that time is or how pleasant.<br />
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I seem to have started this year with a Monoprinting class at the local college & delighted at being asked back, I have ended with a class at the same college. I sense a sort of concertina effect but in remembering details I can elongate the feeling.<br />
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I booked our local hall for a month of Wednesdays in September - I wanted to offer relaxing taster classes of Monoprinting<br />
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I went to a couple of classes myself in the summer, one on indigo dyeing with shibori (I've mislaid those pics) & another on Botanical printing - so good to see it in action from an excellent teacher North Child in Plockton with my own eyes - now I might understand better (the scientific bits in) the books by India Flint!<br />
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the pic above is a 5x5 square out of some of the pieces - I've yet to put the little squares of paper into a sketchbook, I'm sure I will if only to stop them catching the breeze in the studio whe I open the door!<br />
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So now I'm working on some memory hangings. Its not an origional idea but the thought came to me as I was sorting out my parents house ready to sell in the Spring. There was 30 years of stuff to go thru which I managed in 3 stages before the house sold in the summer. I decided to hang on to some of it in a creative way.<br />
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My mother was ill so it was good to be able to be with her & my Dad, of course at these times & I did ask myself would I still be able to make a hanging if the worst happened? I spent the last 4 days with her before she died, 3 weeks ago. I did manage to stich a little with her, for her & I shall continue.<br />
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She loved herons so today I decided to see what would happen if I took a photo with my phone simply perched on the eyepiece of my DH's scope - intriguing I thought. So in her memeory, I say Merry Chritstmas & a happy new year that brings you alll you wish for.<br />
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I've had a fabulous few months, busy of course, getting ready for my second go at having a stand at The Creative Craft & Scottish Quilting Show (used to be called Creative Stitches) at the SECC in Glasgow.<br />
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If you remember last year I bludgened them into sponsoring me with a
demonstrators stand - I just felt that the time had come, it was a step in the right direction,
as I myself had been inspired by people like Lynda Monk, Kim Thitichai
& Wendy Dolan, who were there last year but missed them this year - I
think the same show was at the NEC the following w/e. <a href="http://www.valhughes.com/">Val Hughes</a> was
there tho along with <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Helen McKenna</a> & <a href="http://bexraven.co.uk/">Bex Raven</a>, a great selection of
textile peeps, also so many beautiful quilts but guess who was too busy
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'A Summer Meadow' above, was finished just in time, on the stand of course ;) I made over 90 flowers, it turns out, just while relaxing with some tv over the last few months - lots of them were made chatting with the family over Christmas in Ireland & the Youngest said he couldn't go anywhere without a flower being attached to him somehow!<br />
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At last year's show I was given at the last minute a corner stand, open on 2 sides with a metal pole in the corner - it meant I lost a wall but had more 'people passing' space, but i had to do something with that pole! I made bunting of course, above, a 1/4 poles worth for each of the 4 days, just gathering bits of fabric together & stitching away.<br />
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I enjoyed looking at it over the summer but by the end of the year I decided it needed to move on so it became 15 kinda crazy cards - they did well, I'm glad to say.<br />
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I'd been watching on fb lots of beautiful examples of snow dyeing on <a href="https://wowbook.d4daisy.com/">Maggie Grey's Workshop on the Web </a>Group page but was quite envious simply because we had no snow up here, well, a smattering ages ago, see my lovely snowdrops below.<br />
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I didn't dare go to the actual course page (for those who are members ) as I had soooo much prep to do & I might have been just a little distracted. On arrival at the SECC in Glasgow, tho, I spied piles of deep unmelted snow (just there on the middle left by the white canopy)<br />
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& inspired by my textiley friend Jenny visiting me, I said that if i
could find some Procion Dye at the show, I'd give it a go in my hotel
room. <a href="http://www.gilliancooper.co.uk/">GillianCooper Studio</a> did not let me down.<br />
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Jenny, who very sensibly had gloves & I shoved some snow into the (ex display) basket & into a bag. It didn't leak in the lift, thankfully<br />
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& it all washed out of the bath in the morning<br />
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It was a bit 'peeley wally' as the Scots say up here but the fun this time was in the process.<br />
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earlier in the year, when we actually did have a tiny bit of snow, the Knit (stitch) & Natter group got together a few lengths of knitting & fabric<br />
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& it somehow made it's way ont o the posts outside the cafe at our wondeful community building to greet the customers when it reopend in January - graffitti knitting in Camuscross! they've now been made into scarves to keep lucky peeps nice & warm in this chilly March.<br />
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I was delighted to be asked to run a couple of classes at the local college, the first was an afternoon of monoprinting - the best comment I heard was 'how have I managed to get this far in life without monoprinting' We did a bit of a comparison between a glycerine & gelatine plate made by me a la <a href="http://www.lindagermain.com/">Linda Germaine </a>who I've been following for years & the bought <a href="https://www.gelliarts.com/">Gelli Plate -</a>both are very generous in sharing fabulous clips, mesmarising to watch & learn.<br />
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Not bad for 3 hours work - I had only 3 ferns in my garden & they gave some beautiful results along with lots of other bits & pieces I had fun finding in my studio for the class. I provided cloths for mopping up & one student really took the value of these precious cloths to heart, below. The next pic is a piece of lace from a blind, so guite strong, piece of art in its self. <br />
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The next couple of classes I gave was based on my meadow piece - there were 5 but one got away. Great fun making lots of flowers from recycled ribbon, straight stich & 'ruched' against a knot, so satisfying & my favorite, simple straight stich in a circle in a square or 2 of recycled fabric, pulled against the knot & it becomes a flower, magic. Lovely work.<br />
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So that's the end of my quiet winter, B&B season starts next week! I have the great excitement tho next month, of visiting my grandson for his first birthday, Deacon is one already, unbelievable......I just can't wait.<br />
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Happy new year! What a lovely bright day to wake up to.<br />
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a little walk behind our house<br />
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puting up a small flock of ringed plovers in front of the house<br />
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We went away for a family Christmas to our house in Ireland, a generous legacy from my uncle in law <br />
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a huge local tree (it only looked this tidy for the photo!)<br />
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but I do love the 'natural' tree in front of our home on new year's day - click & you can see the sunshine in all the droplets.<br />
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We've worked on the Irish house, a bungalow really, getting it ready to rent out this Spring as a weekly holiday home<br />
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It was a 'working holiday' but it was also a rest from arranging a local Christmas fair in that fabulous new building I was telling you about earlier this year, (above) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ancrubh/"> An Crùbh</a> - our shop (I've been selling a little work from the arty crafty corner of the shop!), cafe (delicious coffee & cake with a regular get together to knit (stitch) & natter) & huge hall (where I had an exhibition in June, below & organised 19 artists to get together for Made in Sleat in July) <br />
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So, did I mention I was a Grandmother?! The eldest, who called me 'Granny Em' & his lovely wife delighted us with the birth of Deacon James in April, & nothing can really prepare you for the emotions brought on by being given a grandchild.<br />
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I'm going backwards here (well, that's just me) as above, we had a lovely visit here on Skye in October (instead of Christmas) - Deacon's first flight!<br />
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The above 2 are June - I went South for a family wedding & managed a visit too, of course (you've got to grab the chance when they live 650 miles away!) & was so glad to be able to have a photo of 4 generations (my Dad is in his Home & can't really travel far)<br />
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Proud grandparents in April - he's so tiny here compared to his 6 months in October pic!<br />
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I flew back from the June trip up to my Youngest's graduation, a First in Cell and Molecular Biology from Herriot Watt in Edinburgh.......a son of mine!!!!<br />
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Just thought I'd slip this one in - my birthday flowers & a fire....in June!<br />
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I've not being doing much new work - I could blame recovery from the shoulder op a year ago (it's 99% good as new now) or that I did one year of a weekly square & just stopped or that as my Dad got better in the Home (but not enough to come home) & watched my Mom go steadily downhill, living alone at home & despite morning carers coming in to check she wasn't in a crumpled heap at the bottom of the stairs (she did insist in going down in the middle of the night with just a small torch.....) a weekly visit from my brother & aunt & 3 pop ins from her most helpful cleaner. I have managed to visit almost every 2 months since my Dad got ill 2 years ago - I don't resent it al all but it does take time. My last visit was November & it became very clear that I couldn't possibly leave her at home on her own anymore, I wouldn't have been a responsible daughter, so we got her ready to 'move back in with Dad' not that she wanted to & she promptly went into heart failure. So now she is 'convalesing' in the residential bit of my Dad's home recovering & settling in slowly. back together, with care & safety (with only one night in hospital thanks to the fabulous NHS!) The relief is enormous. I'm down again next month to sort the house out.......<br />
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I did make these small strips above when there was a challenge on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/541205352692459/">Sketchbooks & Experiments for Textiles </a>fb group - we swapped fabrics & paper & I got the exact colors I love working in!<br />
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I also made this piece above based both on the tiny 'meadow' I sewed in front of our lovely community building - below <br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18114514969969050590noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593674107207359465.post-46746832102359245312017-02-23T09:51:00.003-08:002017-02-28T09:09:54.277-08:00A Podcast & the Stitching Show, Glasgow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After a while absent, it's good to be back here, especially when I can tell you I've just been interviewed on my first podcast! The lovely Tania Ashton Jones of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TJFrogSkye/">TJ Frog </a>makes beautiful Dorset buttons - I remember when I took her workshop last year I thought I'd never be able to make anything quite so neat, but I did, thanks to her guidance every step of the way. I'll let you know when she's gone 'live'. In fact it's that which spurred me on with writing this post (which of course has been in the making for a very long time)<br />
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EDIT here's the link - if I sound a little over annunciated well, I am, I was terrified I wouldn't be able to speak (not like me at all!)<br />
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https://tjfrog.co.uk/podcast-episode-1-a-giant-leap-into-the-unknown/<br />
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The other thing that encuraged me to get on with it is the fact that this time next week I will be setting up my stand ZE12 (with the help of my lovley DH) at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=stitching%20%26%20sewing%20%2F%20scottish%20quilting%20%2F%20hobbycrafts%20-%20glasgow">Stitching, Sewing & Scottish Quilting Show</a> at the SECC, Glasgow. I felt, over a year ago, that havng been to the show for many years to stock up on supplies & be inpired by the lovely group of textile artist there, it was about time I had a go myself so was invited to show & demonstrate my work. What an exciting opportunity (& I get to go to the show as well!)<br />
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During the Podcast we talked about lots of things - I was terrified & excited all at once as I DO NOT like speaking in public (I did put a pretty top on & some lippy to give me confidence ;) If I sound like I'm over annunciating, well, I am, just in case I stumbled all over the place.<br />
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We talked about my own squares, see all pics above<br />
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The ones I was making each week for a year, just finishing in time in the middle of November.<br />
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We also talked about the community project I was invited to help run at the beginning of last year on the Isle of Raasay which I'm delighted to say was beautifully unveiled & even got me a small pic in the local (well, Highland) paper.<br />
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Another community project I've been involved in has been for our own new building at the top of the 2 villages here called An Crubh (ann crewve) which means hub of a wheel, literally, but it will become the hub of the community & officiallly opens on March 23rd with a shop & post office, a cafe & a huge community hall.<br />
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The project has been, of course, squares, & there have been quite a few small workshops of people gathering together to make squares in lots of different styles. It's a small fundraiser but instead of raffling it off (having received a contribution per square) it was decided to hang it on the building as a reminder of the fun we all had making it. I'll post a pic when it's finally stitched up, but here are 3 of the 40 below!<br />
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I coulnd't resist, I just had to go to the very first Yoga class there despite it only being a few weeks after my shoulder op. I only used 3/4 of my body & oh my goodness, you could tell I hadn't been doing much! Proof that I need to get back to it as soon as I safely can. This pic was the second class, there were 18 in my class! I plan to try my first headstand post op by Midsummer's Day - the surgeon did say it could take 6 months & altho he's signed me off the physio therapist has kept me on 'assisted exercises' for a further 5 weeks ...... At least I can drive now, doing the gears very gently.<br />
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Prior to the op I was working madly on textile pieces, some reconstructed fabric below destined for a book cover, a purse or 2, a cuff & a heart or 2 - nothing like a production line when you're on a time limit!<br />
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I was mounting away & altho I was careful not to put too much pressure on the shoulder holding the ruler, I left my finger hangingover the edge .....Only because I was having an op in the not too distant future (infection risk!) did I end up going to A&E for 3 stitches but it healed up beautifully ;)<br />
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My first lot of creativity of 2017, birthday cards, the first one being on the 6th, a special person who gets the prototype & for the first time I was late but I did manage a very slow stitch.<br />
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It's been a lovely long summer, busy with the season tho & we've still got just over a month to go before it all quietens down.<br />
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I've been continuing with my weekly squares, quite a collection now but I need to keep up with the the mounting & framing...<br />
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Before the season really started we were able to enjoy the proud moment of The Middlest at his Passing Out Parade at Dartmouth. Lots of photos in my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emma.siedlecollins/media_set?set=a.1067645439968142.1073741828.100001680895907&type=3">fb album</a> ;) If you remember he is a Marine Engineer, Officer of the Watch but in working for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary they have to train so they are able to work alongide the Royal Navy in times of conflict. I prefer to think of him in his mucky boiler suit at the bottom of the ship, but that's just being a Mum ..... He's lost the beard & looks 10 years younger!<br />
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Been working hard over on the Isle of Raasay where I was commissioned to help with a 14 x 5' wall hanging for their community hall. We are progressing tho, slowly but surely.<br />
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the parts of the Community that have no fear<br />
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their work, love the rhododendron shrubs!<br />
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mint green of the hills<br />
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a natural collage<br />
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inside of a boat<br />
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certain spring - I do get carried away with the surrounding area when I go 'on location'<br />
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I took time out to go to a peg Loom Workshop, run thru the fabulous wool shop down the road from me <a href="http://handspinnerhavingfun.com/">Handspinner Having Fun </a>led by Sarah of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009538970181&fref=ts">Wood Ewe</a><br />
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we got a few wonderfully misty mornings & yes, it's not the lens it's inside my little point 7 shoot ;( I will invest in a quality point 7 shoot with Macro, so exciting!<br />
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So meet Dizzy, yes she came with that delightful name ;) A couple sent their grandson to the vet to put her down & when she leaped out of the basket in rude health he refused & decided to rehome her. We were quite upset when we lost Willow last November - we'd been told she was 4 yeas old when we rehomed her 3 years previously & suddenly it turned out she must have been 14 plus when she got liver & kidney failure & diabetes all at once. So sad. So we wanted more of a provenance for the next cat & altho dizzy is 9 years old & only accepts affection on her terms (she's much more used to us now after a few months) we thought there was no point in scouring Scotland for a 2 year old when there was a lovely cat that needed a home just down the road.<br />
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with sweet stubby little legs<br />
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loves the stair game but you need a very long bit of paper to avoid those claws!<br />
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instantly at home in the fabrics in the studio. Great to have a cat in the house again - she now walks calmly past Tam & he generally keeps his head well down, knowing she's in charge ;)</div>
Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18114514969969050590noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593674107207359465.post-17632385761950812082016-04-04T11:30:00.001-07:002016-04-04T11:36:05.849-07:00In honour of Maggi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Very upset to hear the news of Maggi's death, a blog buddy since I started 6 years ago. I didn't really think then, that it was possible to have 'on-line' friendships, especially with people not even met but it seems it is. We had fun supporting each others endeavors, she was always interested & always bothered to give her opinion, to share her advice. I shall miss that. I was saddened to hear of her illness earlier in the year - I simply asked what she had been doing with herself lately & she replied 'fighting lung cancer'. I reminded her of the words she'd used in my 50th postcard swap 6 years ago "if you can imagine it, you can achieve it" - I was hoping she'd use the phrase for having enough strength for the fight. I'll add her to the list in my heart of all the people I come across each year with cancer & think of her when in September we have the Macmillan fundraiser. It's all I can do, really except I'm thinking of all her friends & family.<br />
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So I decided to make this piece in her honour, a work in progress which I started on Saturday.<br />
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lots more stitching to do, thinking of Maggi with each stitch. I shall finish it tonight.<br />
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I didn't get further today as we had the Youngest home for a long weekend & went for a jaunt despite the rain to Fiskavaig, the middle of the West coast of Skye<br />
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The Oyster Shed, heard lots about it, scallops & chips under cover in the rain with a changing view, wonderful.<br />
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an <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/extrusion">extrusion</a> or two<br />
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between the tides, this is changed every time the water goes out<br />
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my first primroses, over exposed as they are<br />
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I must look this up - I can feel a printing block of some sort coming on. How perfect is this?!<br />
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Macleod's Maidens in the distance<br />
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4 of the latest 5 inch pieces for <a href="http://katebridger.wix.com/madeonmonday">Made on Monday with Kate Bridger</a><br />
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Spring Garden<br />
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Birch Trees<br />
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Camelia<br />
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I do love the bare branches in my garden but look forward to the leaves, too.<br />
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a sketchbook page & a lovely beachcombed twig from the DH<br />
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My 'suggestion' sample for part of the land on the Map of Raasay, the community project I'm helping with. Perhaps a little wild?<br />
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this one is a blue version, an idea sample for part of the sea around the island. Lots more stitching, couching down & hand stitch to do. I'm enjoying it. I find it creative, just because, i find it has purpose because it might inspire someone else to create something they can be proud of but also, I find it a comfort, theraputic - a word oft over sused but no less meaningful for that - we all need a bit of comfort therapy to be able to deal with that which life throws at us almost daily.</div>
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Well, I just missed squeaking into February with a post despite there being an extra day ;) Happy St. Davids Day - I was able to pick a tiny Narcissi for the loved one who is half Welsh & well, you can guess the rest ;)<br />
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4 more weekly squares for Made on Monday with <a href="http://katebridger.wix.com/madeonmonday">Kate Bridger</a> We also had an article by Kate promoted by <a href="http://www.foltbolt.com/#!Kate-Bridger/cy7d/565d9e580cf2099ad66e9169">Folt Bolt</a>, thank you for that!<br />
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Over to Raasay for the community project twice this month - above is as I was leaving Skye on the ferry. We're working on a huge hanging, a blue rectangle with the shape of the Island within it. There will be trees, heather, boulders, hills, bird & sea life, the language thru poetry, crofting, fishing, people & places as many landmarks as possible. We've got our work cut out for us!<br />
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This beautiful clock tower is for sale</div>
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Lovely bridge we could depict somehow </div>
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Above, the kids work - I went into the school of 9 pupils & the 2 nursery children joined us, with the help of one of the Hanging Group, much appreciated & the welcoming headmistress & a helpful parent we did potato printing, monoprnting, leaf printing, drawing, & coloring - lots of the work was on a clever drying rack so I'll photograph that next time hopefully. The kids even wanted to include the stars & the aurora - inspired thinking.<br />
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Beautiful Scots Pine</div>
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These 3 pics show a few of us starting to work hard using inspirational books you may recognize to help us along.<br />
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Using a variety of media. Back again in 2 weeks! </div>
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The 3 pics above are off the shore from my walks. The middle one is actually from the wood pile as it has woodworm & a bit of a scary face I think!<br />
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I had time to make a few purses, the 2nd one as a gift & I was inspired to make a card purse & camera case for ME<br />
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Above is the project I'm helping with in my village - making a hanging with, you guessed it, fundraising squares. A few cried off with the leurgy but I know who they are & the hanging for our own village hall which might have a wall for it in Spring 2017 will grow. Baby steps ;)<br />
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Last but not at all least, look what I won from the Workshop on the Web giveaway - gorgeous silk threads - do you think they'd been here to see the colors matched exactly to the stunning landscape I live in?</div>
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By the skin of my teeth I've managed to write a post in January. If you don't mind I'd like to show you my latest 5 inch squares. Be patient, there are 7 ...... which must mean it's 7 weeks since I was last here. I'm really enjoying the discipline of a weekly piece.<br />
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A couple of extras that match the moons - well, the fabric was still out, a little machine stitch, a little hand stitch & there's less to tidy away ;) I will stitch that loop on soon, & a button.<br />
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useful little patches & a sample for the sketchbook (I'm still working on samples for the other pieces, just in case I never see them again, you understand)</div>
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We were asked by Workshop on the Web members fb page to show our workplaces, so intriguing to have a peep into others places.</div>
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I was delighted to be asked to join the Raasay Hanging Group in helping the Raasay community to create an enormous hanging for their village hall, about 5 foot x 10 foot. I took along my squares to give an idea that everybody who wanted to could contribute a piece. That we could print pieces, collect & draw all sorts, make little 3d found object replicas to dangle & stitch & knit as there is a rich & varied environment over there. It'll be great fun bringing it all together.<br />
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OK I know, 3 views of Skye from Raasay is a bit much, but what a change aver about 4 hours!</div>
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Last but not least, my friend Rusty by the Hall door. </div>
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I don't normally commit to weekly make but thought I'd join <a href="http://www.katebridger.ca/">Kate Bridger</a> in Made on Monday when she saw my work on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/textilearts/">Textile Arts</a> fb group. A necessary incentive to keep working ;) 5" x 5"<br />
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The last 3 were the result of some printing I did for cards, the day before my last craft fair end of November, which went ok...<br />
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A walk I went on when my sister in law visited in September to the Fairy Glen. Very popular with the summer visitors & I hadn't been before. The weather then was similar to now, altho it's probably warmer this month!<br />
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This little gap was quite tricky for me, one to get thru (I'm only a size 14) but as you can see from the 1st pic of the fairy castle it's quite high up & what you can't see is the massive drop to the right of the pic. A good challenge for me to go up there (for all of 3 seconds & I didn't look down) for someone with a bit of vertigo. Why would I let that stop me? You should have heard my heart beating!<br />
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I had a go at the DMTV 3m challenge, a 'diary sketchbook' took me right back to my 'square a day' from 2010. I certainly didn't fill a page a day but I enjoyed what I did & will probably just carry on. <br />
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The feathers above is probably the page I'll enter for the competition they are running.<br />
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So NOBODY tried to guess what I was making with the knitted 'patches' !!They've made up my first handmade by me pair of knitted legwarmers - the last leg warmers I wore were for ballet & were a pretty pink in my <b>very</b> early teens ;) I so love these, exactly how I envisioned them. You should have seen me with my tongue hanging out with consentration relearning how to attach 2 sides with crochet on the internet.<br />
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The first warmer had enough capacity for 2 legs so I took a strip off, knitted some more & made some hand warmers, before I saw the ones on the DMTV blog! Just a bit of fun stuff....for me! I will try some <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emma.siedlecollins">'twiddlemits</a>' in the new year if someone shows me locally how to knit neatly (the link is to my fb page but it could disappear in a sea of 'Christmas' so do google it ;)....... worthy knitting I think. They are for people with dementia & the little attachments give the person something to fiddle with.<br />
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Beautiful day last week before the wind & rain came back & washed it all away. How lucky am I to live here?</div>
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Even tho the leaves are almost gone from the trees, especially after last night's hoolie, I have fond memories still of my 3 day break on Mull.<br />
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quite high above the Highland cows on the road<br />
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I've wanted to visit <a href="http://www.lipnacloiche.co.uk/index.html">Lip na Cloich</a> Garden & B&B for years,</div>
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no point in going out of season so I took advantage of a long booking at our B&B so I wouldn't leave the DH in the lurch while I went off gallivanting !<br />
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I had one wet day & 2 sunny, not bad at all<br />
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very comfy, friendly, visually stunning in the garden & surroundings. So peaceful....for me. (visitors always say that at our B&B, it's great when I can get a turn!)<br />
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my second favorite place on Mull...... <a href="http://www.calgary.co.uk/gallery.html">Calgary Art in the Garden</a> </div>
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a wonderful tea room, gallery of local work (no textiles, sadly) & a beautiful thoughtful woodland walk down to Calgary bay. Sweet little birds, oyster catchers, I think.</div>
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a sketch of the shapes (must press harder!)</div>
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a sketch from my peaceful seat</div>
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6 months ago the Skye Quilters were offered a workshop in Beauly, near Inverness, by <a href="http://alysnsburntofferings.blogspot.co.uk/">Alysn Midgelow Marsden</a> & I jumped at the chance having followed her for years & I saw on fb that she had managed to raise most of the funding for an exhibition of work of New Zealand artists at the Knitting & Stitching Shows - a lot of organizing, so glad she fitted some workshops in, too. We didn't do 'show & tell' at ours but there are write ups of other really interesting looking workshops on her blog (see link).</div>
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Our workshop was based on the beautiful book 'This Lustr'ed Cloth' (see link 'in print') applying metals to fabric (I've fallen in love again with the inside of tomato paste tubes, remember those? Tin cans? No, too hard, only broke one needle tho) gradually making the hard line disappear to integrate & look what happens if you used metal mesh & stitch on velvet (bottom right) Being a recycler, I wasn't sure about buying mesh but then I saw across the room the 'pile' thing happening & then I folded & crumpled it, oh, joy! Bottom left above is a reverse applique leaf , lovely technique, with a bit of embossing.<br />
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Silky fabrics that I brought with me & the ladies in Beauly kindly had a 'help yourself' box. Peeking out at the bottom of the pic above is the book for one of Alysn's exhibitions 'the continuous thread of revelation' probably the best 'handout' I've ever been given, so generous. Alysn has a very accessible method of teaching but also brings to it a depth of knowledge & pure excitement about the possibilities of combining metal & cloth with flames (!) & paint. Looking at work from her other workshops, too, (on her blog, see link) what a wonderful varierty of them! I would happily do them all..... <br />
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My piece started the next day - reverse applique in the middle - velvet, silk & metals with embossing & I'd love the top & bottom bits to one day resemble, if even slightly, the beautiful pink piece, full of deliciousness, in her pic of samples, above!<br />
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a swatch for my sketchbook & a flower shape ;), a really fabulous couple of days.</div>
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I had a mixed media & mono printing day with J<a href="http://skyequiltstudio.co.uk/">enny</a> at my studio (in return for that wonderful dyeing day we had together <a href="http://emma-alittlebitofeverything.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/a-dyeing-day.html">(see here</a>) but we were so excitied we only managed a couple of pics!<br />
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Finally, I'm doing just one craft fair this Christmas, 1 mile away ( my shoulders can cope with the strain of that I think!) & the baking table proceeds always go to a good cause, a community effort, really. The 28th November at Talla Dearg, <a href="http://eileaniarmain.co.uk/"> Hotel</a> Eilean Iarmain in Isle Ornsay. Hearts & birds, oh & some cards to be added to the work below!<br />
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Autumn is in the air but I had to pick a last bunch of flowers before the garden is finally over. Things started later this year so it stands to reason they lasted longer, except for the blackberries. I ate 6 pretty sour berries today & the rest are green & almost all the rest have gone mushy round where I live, such a waste of lovely growth.<br />
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I love the vase of flowers above but I quite like the 'framed' look of the still life, too.<br />
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I'm following along with <a href="http://www.lindakemshall.com/DesignMattersTV.html">Design Matters TV</a> daily sketchbook work - it reminds me of the square a day I did 5 years ago, except I've whited out only a few pages in the gardening book I've purloined ready for sketching & sticking & only started the 'front' pages & one entry on the 18th of this month so far. Maybe with the end of the season nigh I'll be able to do some work just for myself, playing, disappearing into the pages with color or fine lines for a bit of peace.<br />
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The shoulder diagrams? Yes, I finally got my lovely GP to get me a scan of my shoulders - I think he did it for my peace of mind. Well, I have a near full thickness tear in the rotator cuff, calcium deposits, erosion at the top of the arm bone - humerous? they call it spinosis, like a hedgehog, well you can imagine the prickly pain, can't you ? & all that causes the Impingement Syndrome which makes me just a little butter fingered & I can't alwys feel or grip a needle..... I'm off to the shoulder surgeon so this book might be quite cathartic ;)<br />
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What do you imagine these knitted pieces will be? Bet you can't guess! I've been using 'Norwegian knitting' showed to me by a Norwegian who could never understand why we laboriously (well, it is when I do it!) wrap the needle with our right hand when we can just pick up the thread from our left index finger.....look up European knitting - I ain't no knitter but I'm enjoying these bits & pieces.<br />
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Went for a lovely walk a few weeks ago to celebrate 28 years married (!)<br />
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The Storr - you can just see the 'Old Man of Storr' 1/3 of the way in, beautifully highlighted by the sun.There were about 100 cars parked along the roadside - we saw 5 other people where we walked down on the shore below.<br />
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The reason for a good walk? Lunch in <a href="http://skyepiecafe.co.uk/">Skye Pie</a>, the most mouth watering pie I've ever had, but I probably drooled more in the beautiful gallery next to the cafe area. The work is by various talented people but the big piece I know is <a href="http://www.wildtiles.co.uk/">by Jan Kilpatric</a>, near Ullapool.<br />
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I really must get my <a href="http://www.indiaflint.com/page7.htm">India Flint</a> book out for another look see!</div>
Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18114514969969050590noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593674107207359465.post-78023535210854788652015-07-25T08:39:00.001-07:002015-07-26T07:05:23.607-07:00Made in Sleat Exhibition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Another month gone by but this time I've had an excuse as I've been cobbling together all my bits & pieces to make 2 wall hangings & 4 small framed collages (I only achieved 3 but that's fine.....)<br />
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for this event starting today! the official opening is in a couple of hours - it'll be good to see them all together. Best of all I'm in the 'Artists' section on the<a href="http://www.madeinsleat.co.uk/"> website</a> (at the bottom but I'm used to that & deLIGHTED!) & no I don't think that being a maker is second best coz I'm one of those, too ;)<br />
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a sneak peak of the 2 hangings about 3 1/2 ' x 1 1/2' - <span style="color: red;">edit</span>, forgot to say this series is called "between the tides" hope it will last me the rest of my life! Did you see how well the kind gift of the screen from <a href="http://www.lindastokes-textileartist.com/">Linda Stokes</a> represents my interpretation of the little hills of wiggly sand left by sand worms? (3 'spirals' on the sandy colored linen, below) Couldn't have been more apt ;) Thanks again, Linda!<br />
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a visit to Mallaig<br />
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a fathers day card, meant to be a silver birch but it's a little stiff! I like the feel of it tho. My mum wanted one for her birthday so I drew a Scots pine, can't find a pic tho... <br />
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Went to the Fairy Pools to see what all the hype was about - see above pic borrowed from Google. Suddenly our guests all had this lovely place on their list - it was featured a while ago as one of the top wild swimming placesI knew I'd been there about 20 years ago & I was sure I would have remembered if I'd been to the 'Blue Lagoon'!<br />
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the Youngest & I went to have a look. I've kept the person in, above, for scale -you can see it's a great bowl of space with a thin river coming down from the hill<br />
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I'd heard about this arch just under the water & had considered swimming under it to embrace 55, with one of the kids pulling me thru with a rope. I gave myself nightmares imagining myself or the kids getting stuck under water in the 'tunnel' Well, it's a foot wide, about a meter under the surface, just unde the white of the water'fall' in the middle of the pic. I looked at it & didn't feel the need any more (the 'anxiety' nightmares stopped, too!)<br />
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It's a beautiful place, but it's just a small place<br />
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turned into a motorway with toilet stops visible along the way, a lot of men in wet boxers (no, really not my fantasy!) & in the pic below you can see how all the edges are eroded away.<br />
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In fact the GF of the Youngest was going to do her dissertation on the purity of water at the top & the pollution of it at the bottom once it had passed thru all of the chemicals on the skin of the lovely visitors swimming about in it. The DH was quoting the Eagles "call it Paradise & kiss it good bye"<br />
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Don't get me wrong, I LOVE our visitors, they keep the Island open, but I don't like hype. I know I wasn't in the middle of the water with a wide angle lense, but it's a little deceptive isn't it, the hype?<br />
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Very exciting to see Pilot Whales on the way back down the Island, my VERY FIRST! Sadly, they were a little far in the loch for comfort, apparently, with the possibility of getting stuck but they managed to get out into the deeper water later.<br />
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I was even excited about this beautiful moth!<br />
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& joy of joys, whwwn I started sorting out the pics for this post this was happening outside the window - 2 chicks at the top with stubby tails & a resting parent below them.<br />
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They were very careful in feeding first one then the other<br />
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I've been thinking about this for a long time but I've finally given myself permission to actually write! I'm having a wonderful week with my parents visiting - no mean feat while struggling with AMD (age related macular degeneration) & continuing (3m) neuralgic pain caused by shingles on the scalp & that's just my poor Mum! We're celebrating them being here, their 59th wedding anniversary last week, being unusually together for Father's Day, our 2 birthdays, the Youngest returning from tracking deer on the Isle of Rum for a month & tomorrow the Middlest will be back from his Induction into the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) - it's all initials! where he will support the Royal Navy as a marine engineer, 3rd Officer of the Watch (3OE for short!) I had a lovely chat to the Eldest & would love to have seen him & Em but I can't be greedy. I'm a proud & very lucky person, can you tell?<br />
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I've been studying the seaweed 'shrouds' , films of thin seaweed left behind as the tide goes out. I find them fascinating but haven't yet worked out how to translate them into a mixed media textile piece.<br />
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I'm enjoying playing with <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Surfaces-Stitch-Plastics-Creating-Techniques/dp/0713489073">Gwen Hedley's</a> ideas using cling film as some bits look like plastic when dried hard & some look like soggy holy 'felt' samples.<br />
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I enjoyed a workshop with <a href="http://www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/artist/Aileen-Grant">Aileen Grant</a> where we spent a lovely afternoon mono printing using gelatine plates - I wanted to frame the actual plate below with dried on paint! Using the netting in the top left corner as very effective.<br />
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netting, lace doily of mine & other shapes & layers<br />
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an attempt at printing on cloth, but the colors got a little muddy<br />
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& above, my first attempt at a landscape, & below, the w/s was held near Eilean Donan castle <br />
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I've been sketching, enjoying the trying, anyway. it's an fb group, delighted to be asked & we're given a prompt every couple of weeks. I like a challenge. This week it's Flora! <br />
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I was asked again to make another Ulna Bone protecting gauntlet, this time for over the clothes, therefore decorative & colorful. She was delighted & again, I was relived that it worked!<br />
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I also made a 'pretty purse' for a special girl - quite like my new 'squared' corners <br />
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some cards for a couple of local outlets & I'm delighted to have work in a lovely new place in Broadford, just down the road from me <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldPierGallerySkye?fref=ts">The Old Pier Gallery</a>, a sister of <a href="https://isleofskyebakingco.co.uk/skyeworks-gallery/">Skyeworks Gallery</a> all the way up in Portree.<br />
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& last but by no means least I won a giveaway by <a href="http://www.lindastokes-textileartist.com/">Linda Stokes</a> of the Thermofax DV by <a href="http://lyrickinard.com/2013/09/surface-design-thermofax-screen-printing/">Lyric Kinard.</a> It's wonderful, so informative. Linda kindly send me a card of her work, & an actual screen made by her good self. Oh to own my own screen maker....but there are people you can go to to order their screens & ones of your own designs, too. Decisions, decisions - I see screens every where, even in a cut on my arm as a cracked bucket full of earth scraped across my forearm I thought about drawing it & printing with it, there's passion, eh?!<br />
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I've been trying to get here for over a week now, that 'life' thing just gets in the way sometimes.<br />
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I started this daisy collage a while ago & don't seem to have added much to it recently.<br />
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the sample at the bottom of the sketchbook page along with doodles & cutouts for some mono printing. <br />
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I realize I need to get a shift on as the beautiful honesty ( a pic from a couple of years ago above) & dicentra & even geranium phaeum is out already - it is my intention to capture my garden in stitch as it emerges but not at one stitch a week! <br />
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So I made a delicious gelatine plate - I knew playing with those lovely agar plates at school in Science class would come in useful!<br />
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As you can probably see from thse first 2 pics I must have let the plate get too warm in the room before printing as when I pulled the first print - dicentra leaves - a layer of gelatine came off with it! Over night the thin layer of gelatine dried beautifully (not sure whether it might start degrading even tho it's dry!) but I look forward to flooding the print with some color.<br />
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Peeled off the leave & got such a crisp print!<br />
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The plate now looks like a map of the world & as I was in daisy mode I used some card cutouts for more mono printing. Lots of pics, feel free to scroll thru quickly!<br />
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used this as a first anniversary card for the eldest & dil....one year already!! I did add color but posted it off before I took a (nother) pic ;)<br />
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Well, & would you believe this is what I was lucky enough to win in a give away from Janice MacDougall (<a href="http://www.thecraftmagpie.com/blog/">The Craft Magpie</a>) This is where I can 'move in' to any time I feel like a change<br />
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A beautiful house box & a pretty brooch, too<br />
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beautifully stitched flowers<br />
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A cat & the key to each door<br />
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& the smell of roses. I love it Janice, thank you!<br />
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Can you guess what these are, what made them? I seem obsessed with them, tried to 'take a print' but couldn't - if you guess you can help me work out how to...please ;)<br />
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Ages ago I would sit with my coffee on my favorite bench & watch a robin eat last year's Gunnera seeds. Never had my camera while he was posing so I just grabbed this thru the study window. Marveled at how the color of the seeds & the robins breast were an exact match. Sadly, I've had to cut all 5 plants (!) back as the sleet, snow & wind over the last couple of weeks totally dried them out. They'll grow more!<br />
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Very atmospheric weather we've been having, what next?!<br />
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I love expressing myself ( or trying to) by slapping paint, fabric & stitches about but I sometimes feel a little guilty that it might be considered occasionally to be a frivolous pursuit.<br />
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So I was delighted to be asked by one of my customers to make her a functional, useful & well, worthy, padded gauntlet to protect her Ulna bone when playing the guitar .<br />
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You'd have been proud of my measurements & trying to think in 3D - the main padding is in the middle panel, above; 2 layers of soft batting & thin foam in the middle. One side has just 2 layers of batting & the other I thought of thinning the whole thing a little & cut one layer of batting out before I sewed up that side. I'll just have one layer each side next time.<br />
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Of course, it never occurred to me, this being my first heavily padded item, that the padding would add over an inch to the measurements so I added a panel, above on the right to which I stitched the 3 strips of Velcro (easier to manage than buttons & loops & not noticeable if worn under the sleeve). Amazingly I thought of the solution to this problem (I know, obvious to some) while laying in bed the morning my customer was to arrive for a fitting - I don't usually think in the morning - & true to form (I did have B&B prep) I was putting the last few stitches in as she arrived. She was delighted & I really felt I had made something very useful.<br />
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I've been making cards, too.<br />
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Above turned into these, below, ready to mount (the colorful background papers needs stitching)<br />
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I thought I'd photographed the flower stamp I made but I did take a pic of the dried seaweed, below that inspired the stamp I cut out of foam. Fiddly tho. <br />
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I've been watching the wildlife on the shore in front of the house, geese & deer, while getting the place ready for the start of the season.<br />
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I even managed a trip up the Island to <a href="https://skyeworksgallery.wordpress.com/">Skyeworks Gallery</a> last week with a top up order<br />
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& had to get my camera out to take these pics on a bright clear day with fresh snow on the hill. <br />
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I've been working on some textile pieces around the theme of snowdrops. I am enthralled by them & I was trying desperately to finish them before the snowdrops disappeared!<br />
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Above is a narrow sketchbook given to me by a friend - I gessoed the brown pages & will use it as a flower book, as they come out in my garden, helped hopefully by the inspiring<a href="http://www.lindakemshall.com/DesignMattersTV.html"> DMTV</a>videos by Linda & Laura Kemshall that I subscribe to, small bite size clips that I plan to work thru.....<br />
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All the rest of the photos are looking decidedly sepia - I guess they are that color & I don't always have access to good daylight ;) Above I layed out & loosely stitched down some varying textures of white, gold & lacy recycled fabrics - I didn't use bondaweb as it's getting hard for me to stitch into.<br />
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I'd been round the shops in Edinburgh when we had a stop over picking up the Youngest for our journey to Wales for Christmas & found this wonderful collection of lace for a very reasonable price<br />
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Above is a 'small hanging', about 5" x 13" In the middle, not desperately clear, is a sprig of Pussy Willow using scrim & bits of tea dyed silky fabric for the 'whisps'. I may need to define it somehow & also add a couple of stems to make the snowdrops 'nod'<br />
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Above is an abstract version, needs more hand stitching, (about 5 x 5" as are the next 2)<br />
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I made a total of 15 little drop petals, using the miss shapen ones for my sample piece. I learned to use a stablising fabric for the 'silky' ones as they obviously just curve in - I did stuff the one in my sample piece, a little bit of stmpwork! I've used lacey bits too in the willow above. <br />
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I left the middle petal half free & knowing someone might take a peek used a textured fabric for the underside.<br />
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There's gold organza for the top or crown of the flower.<br />
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A couple of small brooch sized patches & all the bits I cut the petals from I turned into a flower<br />
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Here it is in my 'main' sketchbook page - a drawn & gold painted layout - oh how I love that gold acrylic! a ref pic from a mag - I'm trying to sort my piles of gardening mags useful for reference but I reaslise you just don't need to keep them ALL ;) & my sample piece about 4 x 4 so good to be able to touch what you've made in your sketchbook when the 'real' pieces are either covered up or sold, what a favour I did myself when I started to make samples!<br />
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I'm off the the Creative Stitches Show this week at the Glasgow SECC, which they've changed to the Quilting, Stitching & Sewing show or something like that, can't wait, books to buy, stitchers to see, it'll be fun!</div>
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I had my first 'snow day' of the winter off work & got such a lot done! I looked out for the gritter but for a very small road down to my house on a Sunday it wasn't very likely. ;)<br />
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I've been playing with a lovely book lent to me by a friend - Stitched Textiles: Flowers by <a href="http://www.bobbybritnell.co.uk/">Bobby Britnell </a>The 2 pics above were made based on her samples, not actually an 'exercise' like the drawings below - I think I just jumped right in there! I've also been involved in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/artchain?source=feed_text&story_id=870016183021582">artchain</a> & used these images for my first day.<br />
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BB has you draw a flower/seed head (or both, of course) observing everything you can about it - she used honesty & as it's one of my favorites I drew the dried sprig from my studio.<br />
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Here I've used my non dominant hand, must press harder! Scuse the bleed from the next page, they are very absorbent pages in the sample sketch book I'm using. I'll come back later & do an ink wash & a charcoal as suggested.<br />
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These 2 pages are changing the white ground in various ways. I've done most of them before but hadn't used my gold acrylic (top) or ink (bottom) till now, just delicious on top of wrinkled tissue paper & getting a sketch book together based on a borrowed book makes you actually do these things.<br />
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I had a great time during a power cut early this year making a lovely mess with acrylic, stamps pastels & spent dyes a la <a href="http://www.hilarybeattie.co.uk/">Hillary Beattie</a> (why do I have to wait till the lights go off?) - I'm enjoying her book The Gentle Art of Gelliping on mono printing but I haven't succumbed to a 'Gelliplate' yet - my gelatin plate lives in the deep freeze!<br />
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Here's in finished form one of the many cards I enjoyably scraped together - I do batches for my family & friends birthdays, so quick & accessible & you can't see it very well but there are a couple of stitches in there. Some even end up on the studio shelves.....<br />
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I also got a small hearts order finished, must make some more for my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/EmmaSiedleCollins?ref=em">Etsy</a> shop for 2 weeks time!<br />
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Sunshine above this morning<br />
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followed by a mini blizzard a few minutes later & on & off all day. <br />
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Snow drops in the snow where they should be <br />
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& even a little deer at the bottom of the garden searching for something to eat earlier in the week, hmmmmm...</div>
Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18114514969969050590noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593674107207359465.post-86893090424604059112014-12-05T14:45:00.001-08:002014-12-05T14:45:08.318-08:00Where have all the leaves gone?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's amazing the time passing thing, one minute you've got your nose to the summer season grind, the next you look up & all the leaves have gone & there's a sugar dusting of snow on the hills. That's why it's so important to look up occasionally....so I do<br />
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I so wanted to be involved in the <a href="http://www.workshopontheweb.com/">Workshop on the Web</a> sketchbook auction, a fundraiser for Teenage Cancer Trust but I had a craft fair or 2 to finish (& start!) things for. Every spare moment had to be for making, only because I'd left just a few too many things till the last moment......<br />
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Then I slipped down the wooden stairs, only 4 of them, in my wooly
socks.... bruised below my bum & bruised above my bum but I seemed
to leave my arm behind & gave my shoulder such a good wrench! Missed
my coxyx, which was good, didn't break my ankle in 3 places or my back,
even better (the stories you hear... I carry my sock with me now ;)<br />
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One week on & lots of pain killers later I got the 'coughing your
guts up' leurghy, goodness, more painkillers for the splitting head &
chest! & more reason not to make a sketchbook.<br />
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At last, a real day off no pressures at all! Inspired by the beautiful
books I saw coming in to the WoW fb page & the fact that I wanted to
be part of it, I started to make one.<br />
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I had to repurpose an already made cover - I would never have been able
to start from scratch with 2 days till deadline...... I had thought I
would need to make myself a copy, another impossibility! I found myself
sorting thru bits & pieces in the studio, as tho I was really making
a sample sketchbook, by tidying up, really. I thought, don't pressure
yourself with brand new creations, use what you have & look at your
own sketchbooks.<br />
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& I'd always wanted to make a hairy messy dangly jangly fabric
ribbon spine on a book. My fingers are starting to complain about even a
simple pamphlet stitch so I just tied the pages in with a mix of
ribbon, pulling the needle thru with pliers - it WILL go thru! Then
& found & made a couple, of buttons & beads with big holes
that big ribbon will go thru & tied lots of knots & I seem to
have done it!<br />
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I colored a few pages, added a textile sample, drew some flowers. I found a gelatin print, stuck it in & drew some of the shapes I could see in the print. I'm always printing with Acer leaves - which reminds me, when the DH was in Ireland recently sorting our his lovely aged uncle, he sent me a pic of the Acer in his garden, just so vibrant & I asked him to bring me back some leaves. He kindly dried them out on a wood burning stove for a couple of hours, bless him & later phoned for advice ;)<br />
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on the fabric leaf print I stitched gold veins & on the paper print I drew black lines & stitched in an organza swatch. I found a 15 minute heart collage I'd made ages ago ( so much sketchbook stuff tucked away in my studio!) left a blank space boxed in with oil bar coloring & as I turned to leave the studio I saw on the floor, honestly! the perfect row of cut out hearts & thought that would fit nicely.<br />
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I've called this book 'things I love'' so I can put ANYthing I love in it & I couldn't do with out flowers. I carefully, just with straight stitch, made a shiny silky flower & on the opposite side drew 3 simple flowers in black & gold. I found part of a lino print which would only fit sideways, but that's ok, thought about a piece I'd made before with grasses & drew a few strands. I filled a double page spread with a wildly colored circle piece - it could have been cut into lots of cards but I could spare it. then I found a little experiment of a commercial stamp on fabric, tidied one up with a thin marker & even tho I thought it might be too complicated & detailed I drew a version on the opposite page. Probably because I'd already made a mess with water soluble crayons I was able to do it, just simply<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> hearts & birdies, I finally got to make a bird for this winter's craft fairs, really cheered me up after being in the wars!</span></div>
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There's nothing like the feeling of having no pressure, just for once, to get on & do something you love. I missed the actual auction but I might have my sketchbook added to <a href="http://magstitch.blogspot.co.uk/">Maggie's </a>blog over the weekend, what an honor that would be, to be part of something that helps others. Feeling better now.</div>
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Following on from my last post I finally drew the honeysuckle, the very last one of the year.<br />
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Quite subtle, a little tentative but I'm pleased. I asked the DH's opinion & he said it was very good but didn't know what flower it was when pressed, but he reassured me he wasn't a gardener. Does it become a bad representation if someone can't tell what it is or can they enjoy it anyway? I'll go with the latter I think. </div>
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What a fabulous day I had last week at <a href="http://skyequiltstudio.co.uk/#">Jenny's </a><br />
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When I mentioned at the beginning of the year that I'd never dyed anything, was terrified at the idea of mixing chemicals & how could I possibly manage it she kindly said we could have a go at hers.<br />
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Of course being busy peeps, its taken us this long. We live on the same island but being an hour & a 1/2 & about 55 miles away didn't help. Above is the sign to her wonderful patchwork & quilting shop, a real treasure trove.<br />
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What a view even on one of the wettest, mistiest day of the year!<br />
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Jenny had got EVERYthing ready, dyes, spoons, tubs, newspaper, pfd fabric (oh, hark at me!)<br />
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most importantly lots of bags in which to put the dye & the fabric in ready to agitate & stew...or is it batch?<br />
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above, Jenny's rich selection.<br />
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No 4 left had better mottling on the underside so I cheated & turned it over ;)</div>
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Well, I was taking this quite seriously & was determined to keep a record of the 'Exchange Dying' session.We'd done wonderful some warm up exercises of scrunching, dripping & folding, random & so quick! But this was serious stuff, something you could repeat & I was determined to listen & have at the end of it the start of a sample book the same quality as Jenny's. So, exchange dyeing is starting with 2 colors - I just chose my
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There are probably many measurement mixes but the first & last color is the pure color & you gradually add more of one & less of another & half way thru you add less of one & more of the other.......got it? Exactly, that's why I had to be shown first hand & taken thru slowly by an excellent teacher. So I numbered my pieces, just to be sure I was correct as to which they were when they came out of the wash the other end. Best way that I thought would really be pemanent was to stitch the numbers on ;) a nice rest from rinsing - oh, goodness, the rinsing , I'd heard about that..... The right hand side of the above 2 pics is the 'flat' color, the first in the bag that sucks up most of the dye then you put a second piece in & get the ghost color, well of course those are my favourites, delicious mottled resisted parts of fabric.<br />
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I love how the flats & the mottles go together, one of the main points of the exercise, of course<br />
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I can't work out which is my folded piece but we did sprinkling, painting & more dripping after the exchange dyeing. Then I nicked some of Jenny's colors & got fabulous lime greens, quite delicious! <br />
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I've long been inspired by a piece I won in a giveaway from <a href="http://linda-stokes.blogspot.co.uk/">Linda Stokes</a>, some years ago & have been constantly impressed with the work of my blog buddies who dye & now I feel I'm nearing really making my own hand dyes! So exciting.<br />
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I got flat color, drew with the lid of the containers & smooshed, patted & rolled the crumpled fabric & threads about (will I ever untangle them!)<br />
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My stack, my very own stack of hand dyes. Can you tell how grateful I am to Jenny?</div>
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What a beautiful day - sunshine & showers ........twice, followed by sunshine. I will appreciate the light now that it's starting to get dark earlier, the gloaming drawing in. I love the Autumn but first I need to embrace it, get used to it & I have to admit the swallows have gone - it's October after all.<br />
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To hang on to the summer just a little longer I'll show you these shadows I came across a while ago, an Elder tree moving in the breeze, I was absolutely mesmerized. It was possibly moving about a little too much but I can see a screen being made out of one or two but oh, how to choose! Has anybody used a UK based screen maker before? I used the wonderful <a href="http://www.lindastokes-textileartist.com/">Linda Stokes</a> all the way in Australia last time!</div>
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I haven't made much, working to live has got in the way a little but the season is calming down now so I may have more time to make hearts like the one above cut from a lovely tea tray cloth - I'm inspired to use vintage tray cloths by talented artists like <a href="http://www.casholmes.textilearts.net/">Cas Holmes</a> & <a href="http://helenmckennasews.co.uk/contact/">Helen McKenna</a>. I felt dreadful cutting it but I think it's worked well (& I don't really do tray cloths) & possibly birds & more trees for the Christmas (!) Craft Fair end of November & cards & 'gifts' & things. Will I make a Christmas Stocking or 2?<br />
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I did cut my peacock fabric, it was languishing in the corner & needed to move on a step.<br />
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I'd already made the strips below & would stitch one or 2 of an evening when my eyes could stay open<br />
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& this above is vaguely what it will look like, as a small wall hanging<br />
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My New Dawn rose is over but there is one bloom hanging on delightfully high up into the birch by the front gate.<br />
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Honeysuckle thru the downstairs loo window, what a pleasure to watch. There is one flower hanging on there, too. I will sketch it before it goes.<br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18114514969969050590noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593674107207359465.post-30352552550576567982014-08-19T08:16:00.001-07:002014-08-19T08:20:17.931-07:00a little bit more<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
First up, the <a href="http://www.madeinsleat.co.uk/">Made in Sleat</a> (not sure how long the site will be up) exhibition, held in the Duisdale Hall, the first organised by <a href="http://www.visitsleat.org/">Visit Sleat</a> but the second time for me to be part of a group of artists showing here - it's been too long! Maybe we'll do it again next year?<br />
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That's me, above left, there's all the info in the Made in Sleat link, I don't have the energy to link all the names individually. An interesting thought, I'd like to have been under the Artists list, on the beaautifully made website, even tho I am an artist maker. 2/3 of my work is flat work, I've more in common with the watercolor & oil paintings here as I use watercolor pencils, oil bars, acrylic - I don't use ceramics, leather or precious metal. Where do I belong, do you think? Or am I being pretentious (moi?)<br />
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A different kind of produce here 4 delicious (if I say so myself, my family kindly agreed!) greenhouse grown cucumbers about a month ago. & that was it, where are the rest, did I miss something? Lovely sweetpeas from supermarket seedlings, being away in May would have killed all my efforts, that's my excuse ;)<br />
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Don't you love the perennial sweetpea the way it fades to that delicious blue?<br />
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Ready for another show? Again, just scroll thru as quickly as you like. Such a lot of talent.<br />
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Mine first, so small compared to the amazing giants here! they were in a pretty dark corner of the church, too so they got missed when being photographed for the <a href="http://skyequilters.wordpress.com/">Skye Quilters</a> Blog but I've been asked to send this pic so it can be added ;) All the credits for this wonderful work is on the link, too.<br />
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Great to be part of this group, even tho I can't go to any meeting til I retire from the day jobs ;( but I enjoyed my day of stewarding. Our very own Festival of Quilts! I've loved all the blog posts I've been reading on the FoQ - they do have more space than us tho. Great that <a href="http://skyequiltstudio.co.uk/">Jenny's quilt</a> was there, as seen on <a href="http://mixedmedia-jem.blogspot.co.uk/">Julie's blog</a>, 3 posts down.<br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18114514969969050590noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593674107207359465.post-59584763373855171372014-07-26T14:35:00.002-07:002014-07-26T14:35:52.251-07:00The week that was<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
OK, so I had the exhibition<br />
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proud of my new work despite there not being enough people around to appreciate it<br />
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Enjoyed the Highland cows on the way home & didn't have too much road rage when some people stop in the middle of the road to take pics (I parked up safely) or go too near the cows for their own good ( I keep well away from horns that can gore you with a small turn of the head!)<br />
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I'd sketched this building from a Macdonalds in Eastbourne when down for the wedding - all I could find in there was a napkin (lovely tape showing thru there ;) & some left over paint from printing below that. I need to work more on my sketchbook<br />
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Working on 2 pieces for the Skye Quilters' exhibition; there I go jumping from neutrals to brights again....<br />
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last but not least a little success in the sale of a piece at the <a href="http://www.madeinsleat.co.uk/">Made in Sleat </a>exhibition, poster below - we had the opening tonight & I sold my lovely owl feather, I say lovely as I'll miss it but it's gone to a good home.<br />
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Mounted on watercolor paper as kindly suggested by <a href="http://threadnoodle.blogspot.co.uk/">Isobel</a>, thank you.<br />
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Here's hoping for a busy week!<br />
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Finally an opportunity to do a little stitching outside in the sun, a lovely breeze keeping the midges away. Only 7 pics this post, I'm giving you a rest after last time ;)<br />
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This mug was given to me as a present by my Youngest a couple of years ago, he has no idea how touched I was!<br />
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I made up some 'patches' to work on with a bit of tv of an evening, just stitching along, no pattern.<br />
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The idea is to one day put them all together as part of a big piece. Not sure how big, but I've a way to go & my exhibition is in 6 weeks! The feather above is from an owl - I was given a bag full from some naturalists down the road here who found it already dead & thought of me ;)<br />
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I made a piece to shape into a heart. I've been working with so much color lately it seems I needed a change!<br />
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While sitting outside today I was admiring my Wisteria. A tricky plant to get for a windy place but it was for my 50th & it's only taken nearly 4 years but I had at least 3 racemes this year for the first time!<br />
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& all those delicious tendrils to tie in to the top of the pergola at the back of the house, too. Here's to more stitching al dente ;)<br />
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