2006

Smoky Days

Today I had to go to Balook for work and I took the camera with me. The air is choked with smoke and it has been like this (on and off) for days. Sunday was the worst. It got to…

Party Weekend

I wish, I wish

I wish I had something better to show you:

Spinning for the Show

Cricket and a bit of Knitting

Summer of Kayaking

I'm spinnin' around

11 Things

Number 1: I found the missing quilt tops in my box of handspun yarn. So I’m happy now 🙂 Number 2: Dijanne reminded me to mind my values. Yes the fundamentals. And yes I had…

More water than tonic

Stuff it! I’m moping around because I’ve lost some quilt tops. Imprint and another half finished quilt top. I can’t bloody well find them anywhere. And I’m going through a crisis…

Mixed Bag

La Gastro

Patchwork Painting

Happy Happy

The Last Disruption

Felt

Some Acquisitions

Yep. I made these shoes

Well, the Geelong Forum was a success. I had a lot of fun, spent a fortune at the traders stalls and … designed and made these shoes! The amazing tutors were Marlene Kranz and…

Journal

While I was away from this blog I started a visual journal: it was to be a non-precious place for ideas, collage, painting and sketching.

Tingle Tangle Singles

Paper

From Pigsty to Heaven

As promised in my previous post. I have taken some before and after shots of my workroom: The Pigsty:

The Holiday is Over

Look what I made on Sunday night.

Blog Holiday

A Bitsa

One down

Link-o-rific

Not so Fun

Hey Hey

You would not believe it. I actually dyed some fabric!

Heavenly Bodies

A fly by

Hairdresser Head

Got a new do.

Phone Bill Privacy Pattern

Look at those greens, I wish I could sleep in them.

Crumple

Imprint - Top Finished

Disaster Averted

Last night I realised I had made a big, big mistake when choosing the values for the lower layers of my quilt. The light background teamed with the dark fingerprint left me no…

Imprint Progress

Oh No. My blog has been hiding comments. Again!

Messages

Imprint - Halfway there with the top

Another post featuring the fingerprint

Photographs

Cutting

"Do we have any sticky tape?" Is the hardest question in the world

According to Riscy. I eventually found some black electrical tape to assemble the template for one of the background elements (fingerprint) in my new piece ‘Imprint’:

And a Triptich to Round it off

Design 2

Design 1

I’ve produced the first design for my ‘Batch of Five’.

My Favourite Film

Nothing much to say tonight. I have been up since 5am (Australia progressed to the next round of the World Cup! !!!! !!!) and then spent most of the day driving all over Gippsland…

Another Inexplicable Day

And Moving On

Encouraged

Teeth Grinding Frustration

Um - Let us not show photos of the actual garden

Day Trippers

A Double Take

This afternoon, whilst procrastinating from ‘getting the house back in order now that the builders have gone’, I was browsing through the latest issue of Art Almanac and happened…

Quilted and Cut

Fusible Web - Oh How I Love Thee

My friend Monica emailed me today and asked how I get my images onto fabric, so I thought I’d provide a little info here for those who have never used or heard of fusible web.…

Grass

I made something!

Look!

Some Content!

Idea Rich - Skill Poor

Babushka Boxes

Bird Play

A True Story

The Kitchen

This is what our kitchen looked like on the day we moved in to this house on 26 January 2002.

Tuesday I've got birdys on my mind

Oh - I was feeling a little smug

Clouds and Books

Just So you Know what I'm Whining About

A Little Post

Wobble Legs

Textiles? A bit of a ramble

Back to our regularly scheduled program

The Dredger was juried into Fabricate. YAY! Even though I was in two minds about submitting my art for public exhibition, I am pleased that the jury selected my work, and not only…

A Short Return

Ice Tray, Away Away Away

Temporarily Back to Regular Programming

Dredger - Finished

Some Techincal Difficulties and a Breakthrough

Colour Craving

The Church

And a quilting we shall go

It is hard to say how much more quilting I have to do on the Dredger Quilt, perhaps 1/4 maybe less. It depends how much quilting I do in the trusses. This is where I was at last…

Impeller

Ah, so the brain is starting to wander onto new creations… even though I have not finished the dredger quilt, not by a long shot. Behold, a germ of an idea for a new piece

Next Knitting Project

I have borrowed this book from Dianne at Spinners and Handweavers.

When only stippling will do

This photo doesn’t show my quilting very well, but I decided to use medium stipple as a background for the branches. I will outline the branches in a darker colour and I will…

The Dreaded Dredger

Not the effect I was looking for. I found this quilting too dense and it distracted attention away from the branches. So I spent a good hour unpicking. Next Quilting Move: I’m…

Pot 'o' pencils

My pencils live in this Raku fired pot (which I made!) I received the pencils as a Christmas present from my mother, I think I was 15. My mother moved away when I was three and my…

It got me

I ran but I couldn’t hide. I got the cold 🙁 I am also officially sick of seeing the dredger quilt on my blog day after day so I present to an ultra close up of my florabunda…

Are you sick of the dredger quilt yet?

The real quilting has commenced – this is the river diversion section Morwell River has recently been diverted for the 5th time for the continuing expansion of Hazelwood Coal…

Hello There!

Taken before I got into the groove. I’ve used light blue taylors chalk to mark guide lines on my quilt… could be a mistake considering I don’t intend to wash it. I tried the soap…

I Should be out of my PJs and Ready for Work

So this will be a quick post I started quilting the Big Dredger Quilt: The start of stitching As I mentioned yesterday, I needed to take the step of setting up my sewing machine…

EDM - Self portrait

The Everyday Matters drawing challenge this week is – Self Portrait. EDM – Self Portrait on my birthday I drew this from a photograph because I wanted to turn the photo upside…

Intense

I can get a little intense: Portrait LOOK at those EYEBROWS!!!! My sister would be proud! (She sports a well cultivated monobrow) I took this photo because I want to draw myself…

Spinning and Knitting

I’ve been slack on the spinning and knitting front lately because I needed to spin up some more yarn for the jumper and had more fun things to do, like make a quilt. So tonight I…

A Quilting Quandry

Just a bit of eye candy because the rest is just words (except for the neat workroom shot at the bottom of the post) This vine scrambles and hangs off our ugly side fence, it is…

Big Dredger Quilt - A Major Step Forward

This was a bit like untangling spagetti, it took me many hours down on my knees to sort it out. YAY, the top is fused. Though my knees are sore from crawling around on the floor…

Black and White

Burnt tree trunk. This tree was burnt during our recent bushfire. It is far from dead though, and will sprout all the way up the trunk. Riscy and I will go back up there in a few…

The Fabric

I’m done with the dyeing, now the quilt can start. You would not believe how happy this makes me. I was starting to feel the project slipping away and I really want to see this…

More dyeing - will I ever get this quilt started?

Another day another banner. The background image is taken from some dye play I did tonight. When I was processing the photo below I realised the lino print section (spectacularly…

Internet Friends

Fabric dyed. I’ll use two of theses pieces for the Dredger quilt. The gusty breeze made this shot fun to take. I will need to overdye the dark value fabric as I really wanted a…

Finishing the Day with a Flourish

Thank you to those who commented and emailed me regarding the death of my friend. I thought I would share another photo of the aftermath of the Moondarah Bush Fire with you. You…

A Sad Day

A Rose in the Sun. One of my spinning friends, Robina, died unexpectedly today. I am very sad and distressed for her family and close friends. I spent quite some time talking to…

Clean Clean Clean

It feels sort of boring posting a pencil only drawing, no colour. But I don’t want to paint in this journal. EDM #54 – Someone I Love Chris watching Alpine Skiing on telly. This…

Draw a Mouth

Everyday Matters – Draw a mouth: No one said the colours had to be realistic… where’s the fun in that? LOL I had lots of dodgy attempts at this topic. I won’t be showing my duds…

Up to my ears

3500 Hectares of burnt bush. Yesterday Riscy and I took a drive to look at the aftermath of the Moondara State Forest Bushfire, we were driving through a web of bush tracks which…

Can you believe it?

This is TINY applique, tiny tiny crazy cutting. A miniature prototype, a practice piece for BIG ONE Last night I got a crazy urge to try out the design for the dredger quilt in…

Dredger

photo screen print of the dredger: veiw of the underside I screen printed this image of the Dredger mainly to see just how much detail I could get using the photo screen print…

Getting ready for a screen printing workshop

I’m doing a photo screen printing workshop tommorow at the Latrobe Regional Gallery. I’m not entirely sure what sort of images are suitable, so I’ve been playing around with some…

Four Things

Seaweed washed ashore at Shallow Inlet Cyndy tagged me Four jobs I’ve had 1. Receptionist (only job I’ve ever been sacked from!) 2. Usher at university graduations 3. Student…

Bracken Fern

Bracken Fern from Shallow Inlet Riscy and I just had an extended weekend camping on the coast. A little break. We had a wonderful, relaxing time together. Swimming, reading, and…

Ohhhh Long Weekend!!

A portrait of our little family at Waratah Bay, Wilsons Promontary is in the background On Sunday it was HOT, (our car thermometer told us it was 43C which is 109.4F) so Riscy and…

Extreme Weather

We have it all: the air is thick with smoke from bushfires which have burnt out 3500 hectares in the Moondarra State Park to the north of here. It is going to be over 40 deg C…

What the hell is she up to now!?!

Layer 1: Charcoal Forest. Paper template half ripped off I killed the pod quilt. I overdosed it with a thick layer of icky green acrylic paint. It seemed like a good idea at the…

Do I really hate this?

I like the pod shapes. I’m indifferent regarding the quilting I have done, I’m not in love with the colour I have added and the lack of background quilting is really turning me…

I Can Do Anything Now I've Climbed the Sock Mountain

First ever sock complete!!! I even successfully kitchenered the toe, how cool is that? I had to refer to the net (see link below)for the ankle shaping because I didn’t quite get…

Here Fishy Fishy Fishy

I like the ‘water’ stitching. The fish started out as a scrible that looked sorta fish shaped, so I gave him a big eye, better fins and painted him up. Riscy and I are car…

The Resolution

A quiltlet. Ink and watercolour and STITCHING 7.5cm x 12.5cm. Yeah Baybeee! The Resolution: Get back to the stuff that floats my boat… the stitch, quilting, embroidery, fabric and…

A Scarf For my Sister

Scarf knitted lengthways in the Diamond Mesh lace pattern from A Treasury of Knitting Patterns. It is very meshy but also very soft, knitted from some superfine merino that I…

A New Year

To all my friends – real life and internet 🙂 I hope your 2006 is filled with joy and growth. New years resolutions have such stigma, but it seems natural to assess the preceeding…