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AllDreamin'
I've been thinking a lot about patterns and shapes and I'm very happy to have found the textile designs of Mina Perhonen (via ah-yi). Lots of inspiration for my first 'week-long creative project', which I'll firm up over the next week and probably start the week after. One proviso being that I'm getting enough sleep by then. Hopefully the pain of teaching Jasper to sleep is a long distant memory by then. We are currently 'in the process of' and my heart is feeling very raw.
How cool is this little woodstack shack? One day I'd like a crazy little retreat down the end of the garden. Though I have a feeling I'm going to be house oriented for many years to come. Onto more pressing dreams, I've been thinking about how I can make this place more functional for us. I'd like to create a space that allows me to create while Jasper is awake or asleep (my current space doesn't work in either situation!)
We're Back!
We've been home for a week, but I've had trouble getting my act together to post. You know how it is after a holiday, it takes a little while to get back into 'real life'.
I overestimated the time and energy I would have during our travels to devote to my little doodle drawings. But I did chip away at it here and there. I think I have a 1/4 of the little book filled now.
I started doing whole page 'designs' rather than exploring a particular idea multiple times on one page. But I think I'll try to go back to the messier explorations which quickly push ideas in lots of different directions. I hope I'll have a couple of hours this weekend to do some tea towel stencilling. I'm itching to get them done now so I can move on to other projects.
StencilInstead of agonising over my swap tea towels any further... I decided to start!
A few things I've learnt from this one: 1) leave more room at the bottom ... I don't want to truncate the solid semi-circles. As a result the hems on this towel will be thinner than I would like. 2) remember offset the 'repeat'. The solid shapes aren't meant to line up in a row like that but I think it looks pretty good anyway. 3) be careful when lifting the stencil otherwise the ink will smudge. It happened in a few places and isn't disasterous... but I can do better. 4) my intensive drawing project has already been useful since this design comes straight from one of the pages I did a few days ago :-) 5) I need to find some thread that matches this fabric so I can hem them by machine. I have linen embroidery thread which is an ok match, but I don't want to hem by hand. I've just finished hemming some teatowels for my sister by hand and they take me a couple of day each. Eeeek! No, I must find that thread! 6) I love this fabric!
Show us yer sketches
I'm attracted to the concept of committing to 'doing something' everyday for a whole year. You know, like taking a photo or drawing or painting or something. But I couldn't decide what I'd like to do for a whole entire year AND I know I'd lose interest about two weeks into the project (you've got to know yourself sometimes). However, I've come up with a plan! A week or two here and there exploring ideas and techniques in an intensive kind of way. So I'm starting the year with this little gridded notebook. In that book I'm exploring shape and pattern and I want to fill it by the time we return from our trip (end of January). I won't be blogging while we are away, but I promise to report back when we return! (we don't go until the end of the week, so I'll try and keep you up to date until then).
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