Some Jewels and Some Spinning Content
More Jewels Darlings 🙂 They are so much fun, rather addictive and not really what I need to be working on. But what’s new? I’ve also been dyeing up some merino. And spinning some…
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Journal archive
May 2005
From the journal archive.
15 entries
Woolly Goodness
I’ve been knitting and spinning all weekend. The merino and silk has taken me weeks due to it being a very very thin yarn. I haven’t worked out the length yet, but I think it has…
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Art in Meetings
I sat in a meeting today, a meeting I participated in quite a bit, but I also went prepared with some paper scraps and a purple and green pens. I was multitasking. Doing art while…
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Lace, Lace I'm Knitting Lace!
I can’t believe that I’m actually doing this. I’ve worked out what yo, ssk and psso mean and after a few false starts, here it is: It’s the yarn spun from my hand dyed merino. The…
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Claire. Plan before Dyeing
I’ve had excellent cotton dyeing results using Adriene Buffington’s book Hand Dyed Fabric Made Easy. I don’t follow the book 100% but I normally chart out my plans prior to dyeing…
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And Now for Something COMPLETELY Different
Today has been filled with wonderful creativity, check out what is drying on my fridge right now: Bird and the Tree In addition to the linocut, I did heaps of painting. This is…
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Is Less Really More??
Tonight’s Jewels: Orange Brooch Pink Brooch Once again, too much stitching. The orange piece was very good before I went crazy and stiched it to oblivion THEN hacked it up, then…
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Bracelet
I’m not 100% happy with this piece. But, wasn’t I just saying recently that I need to accept the crap with the good otherwise nothing would be created at all? Matchstick Bracelet…
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Gallery Opening, Road Trip and Jewels
The gallery opening was great, best one I’ve been to for a little while. The works were truely wonderful. The artist, Jenny Peterson, is a printmaking lecturer at Monash Uni in…
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Jewellery
Ok treasured readers of Little Fish, you may have wondered if I was off my nut yesterday when I mentioned that I would like to explore quilt jewellery. This is a little piece in…
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A Finished Object, Motivation and Fitness
First, I want to show you a simple little bag I finished tonight. It is 25cm (10″) high, from tip of handle to bottom, and 20cm (8″) wide at the base. The body of the bag is made…
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Amulet Challenge
It seems like forever ago that I signed up for the Amulet Challenge hosted by Becky Kelly. It’s a round robin format with four participants in each group. The moment has now come,…
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A quilter I REALLY like
Since my sewing machine is out of action and I’m still spinning the silk so there are no interesting photos, I thought I’d give a link to one of my favourite quilters: Shawn…
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Sewing Machine Blues
This time last year I invested in a new sewing machine. The Janome 6500, my dream machine. I’ve been neglecting her a bit lately in favour or the spinning wheel. But tonight, I…
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Quilting on the Downturn
Well, another week has gone by and I have failed to do any quilting. I don’t know why I’ve got this block, but I suspect it may have something to do with my spinning and knitting.…
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