2007

India Ink and Acrylic Paint Magic

Today (instead of getting ready to move house) I tried out a technique that I read about in Quilting Arts Magazine which described how acrylic paint resists India Ink. The ink…

Summer Quilt Finished

A finished shot of the summer quilt, lounging on our overgrown lawn 🙂 I sewed this binding entirely by machine, knowing that it would probably take me forever to get around to…

News Flash

Riscy and I will be moving to Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory in 6 weeks time. Nhulunbuy is a town located on the Gove Peninsula where the main industry is bauxite mining and…

Cow

I drew this cow in my journal yesterday. The page was already painted the pinky colour with the blue and white smudges. after I finished the drawing I decided to add a the green…

Sponteneous Jewels

I dragged out my little stash of buttons this morning. I put my hand into the lucky dip that is the button bag and came out with this beautiful morsel of plastic. And without…

On a Jet Plane x 6

Tommorow, Riscy and I are flying to the Northen Territory. Three flights up and then three flights back on Tuesday. We are going here. I’ve been trying to get some suitable…

Scrap Pile

Because of all the fabric ripping for this quilt, I have lots of skinny strips of fabric and tread nests hanging around my workroom. I love the colours. So I chucked a pile onto…

Summer quilt

On a whim. I sewed up this patchwork quilt top today. A ‘no cut’ quilt. I just ripped the fabric to size and merrily sewed away I’m now officialy run out of orangey fabrics and…

Plugged

 The above image is taken from one of my little journals.. .the drawing is of the elecrical plug for my iron. Have you noticed that these yellowy greens are a current obsession…

Hats

I have been making stuff. Just not blogging about it. I think this could be because Riscy and I have some stuff going on and I really want to share it with you, but I can’t.…

Spring Cleaning

We spent this weekend cleaning. The house is fresh and sparkly from front to back … and I have new cushions in the lounge room. So it really does feel like we are emerging from…

Grey Stripe

Remember the little grey painting I showed a few weeks ago? It is now a grey and yellow painting and is one of three. I’m definitely going to hang them somewhere. It has been a…

Felt Mania

I’m right into felt this week 🙂 Last night I made this hat… which was an utter disaster (think scull cap) until I started playing with the creases. Now don’t go thinking that I’m…

Felt

I’ve been meaning to learn how to make 3D felt for years, this inspiring tutorial on the blog Homework got me very enthusiastic and excited to try it out. The red slippers are the…

Lines

I’ve been printing 🙂 I thought I’d show you my low tech set up. I use an old piece of glass from a cheap picture frame to mix the acrylic paint and roller it onto my little…

Little Grey Paintings

My workroom is cleaned and I have done three little paintings (15x15cm). I’m a sucker for cute little things and these tiny stretched canvases jumped right into my hands when I…

Inspiration Wire

I’ve been inspired by Mav of Port2port to put up some inspiration wires in my workroom. I’ve put up a combination of my textile stuff, pictures ripped from art magazines, and…

More Little White Quilts

Well. That was quicker than I thought it would be. These quilts were based on some drawings I did last week in a little moleskine book. Suprisingly, I really enjoy drawing over…

Highs and Lows

 The skiing at Hotham was wonderful. I didn’t want to leave. By the end I was going very nicely, parallel skiing down the easier blue runs and dealing with mogols without too…

Snow days

Me at Mt Baw Baw with the West Gippsland Plains in the distance Riscy took this photo of me yesterday. I think I look pretty glamourous even with massive hat hair… Its those big…

White quilts

White Diptych 1 Melbourne was good. Too much to reflect on here, but the ballet made me cry (New Romantics) and the theatre was spellbinding/hilarious/titilating (The Burlesque…

'Ello, ello!

What have we here?? I’m back, and I’m quilting. I just went through a little creative dry patch. They happen occasionally, I’ve blogged about it here before. It is a strange…

Cold Weather is to Blame

When we were kayaking in Port Davey and Bathurst Harbour in South West Tasmania, we spend a day paddling up the Davey River to Davey Gorge. Davey River used to sustain a ‘pining’…

Booklets

That Winning Feeling

Today

Lino Lizard

They're up, They're up!!

I thought I’d share the bedroom paintings insitu …

New Quilt

However, a weekend frame of mind sorted me out and within about 30 minutes of sitting down to work on it today, it came together. I’m going to sit back and do some hand quilting…

A Little Bit of Hand Quilting

Weed and Shadow

Little Drawings

Otherwise Engaged

Books, book art, bookbinding, paper craft, paper making, box making, journaling, design, print & patterns, textiles, origami, art events – the blog of a bookbindery. Design?DNA:…

First Canvases

More Journal

Volume

Edited to add… These were done in my journal, the additional/contrasting rectangle is a partial section from the opposite page from the main painting (digital cut and paste).

More Play

Wrecking Journals

Keri Smith has just launched a new project called Wreck This Journal. So in the spirit of letting go and being a bit more free and open with my creativity, I have glued some stuff…

Sun Leaf Tree

Nothing Profound

Yellow

More Printing

Milestone

I turned 30 yesterday. 30. A day in the Dandenongs with Riscy was a lovely way to mark the occasion 🙂 Today I printed. I used one of my old linocuts and experimented with some…

Back to it

Holiday!

A New Journal

Dumb Kayakers

Our kayaking/camping weekend was wonderful. Even if our navigation skills are terrible… we were meant to camping on Snake Island.

Gone Kayaking

Back Sunday 🙂

More Utilitarian Sewing

Tonight I intended to make a quick and dirty art quilt. Instead I watched a documentary about Nick Cave, shared a bottle of wine with Riscy and made a pin cushion:

Finding Beauty

Ideas Book

Sometimes I feel like I don’t have any ideas and I will never have another idea for the rest of my life and sometimes I am brimming, my head is spinnning and I don’t know what to…

Step

A New Handbag

Hot Bouquet

Birdies

Quick and Dirty - Jar finished

Tide and Time

Last week was HOT. And the airconditioning in our part of the building at work died… in fact, it is so dead that apparently it has 10 broken parts which need to be ordered in and…

Q&D - a quilt top already

Quick and Dirty - Jar

A New Year - 2007