Experimenting with ideas in textiles, glass fusing, experimental pieces and thinking, aiming to be alternative in my creating.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
The holiday season brings in texture
Yes it has been that time (my word for this blog of the day) THE Holiday season with many options to buy presents for people, but I wanted to make something and different from previous years of textiles in some form. This year cooking and proud that so far reasonable results and gifts made and delivered.
It is interesting how I think of texture when I watch the mixture either brown or rise while cooking and the changes that take place. It reminds me of when I have yarn which moves through the process of weaving - knitting in one of the many forms ( hand, machine, both), sewn or other method that I have been drawn to try and assist this yarn into it's new form - fabric that can be a finished item or needing to be cut up and sewn into a item. This is one of my box's that went into my recent graduation body of work. It is a inlay technique called Theo Moorman over 6 shafts that is just off the loom and awaiting the triming of excess threads then sewing - of the edges and into a box.
A small confession is that I have not cut up a big length yet, some samples and short pieces of weaving as I have been weaving the shape eg box's that can be made up or tapestry using the 4 selvege method that I learnt, yet still understanding how to do well. Below is my glass weaving before it is slumped this again was texture with colour or as some say without colour - white, which has so many shades, so colour is what I am using- for a better word to describe it.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
The start of showing my works -WHITE
The date of this post is 20th December 2010
The recent experience of showing this my work to people I do not know or have discussed with regarding what, why and for has been very interesting. I have had people touch, come up close and look, then show others my white piece. This was shown at Moonee Valley racecourse where our end of course with other departments of RMIT (fashion and textiles) school in Melbourne was held over two nights and one day.
This is a length of hand woven acrylic yarn that I borrowed some a friend to finish. I weaved it on my loom that a Melbourne maker made many years ago. It is still going well, just needing a little TLC and regular oiling. The weaving took over 15 hours and I did a block weave that surrounded a two over and under pattern. Then making squares out of rocks, which was boiled an resulted in many interesting shapes, then to bring out the different effects I used my hoops to go with the construction theme which works for me and my piece is finished. A few pins and help from others, a work on show. These were on show for two nights and a day, giving those a brief glimpse into our work.
A few explorations for small pieces
The brooches I have been making for some time now, have evolved and now I realize is going to be about the different ideas I have, than about one style. I like making brooches as it gives myself the chance to try out some ways of doing and giving people a taste of what I am exploring at that time.
woven
zigzag
This method was shown at a workshop I was attending, and we were told bring it into your own by how and what I do with the method. I know this sounds a bit confusing, but I just needed to put this in.
Exhibition Time
The works seen here are photographed by Stephen using my little camera at the opening of the Fuse 2010 graduation exhibition, the course I have been fulfilling, now called Textile design and development at RMIT, Brunswick Melbourne at the Counihan Gallery.
The pieces that has been selected to be part of the Fuse exhibition are a length of tapestry with different technique’s of weave that are in the shape of box’s and to go with this is 14 free standing box’s made in tapestry, felt, weave, glass with plastic, machine knitting technique’s.
It was a wonderful night of viewing works that I had heard and seen some works in progress. To then see them finished, selected by the gallery curator which made decisions on what they saw as a body of works both collectively and individually. There were many to catch up with from previous and future students and teachers, then seeing that my work was in the (what I'll call) the cube, was amazing to go through.
I have not included others work as felt I should allow for them to express their own views of the final school exhibition.
I am very happy with the whole experience for I have gained a lot and look forward to more times where my work is exhibited.
Thank you.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Textiles and Jewellery
I have been weaving and knitting and sewing over the last couple of years and Carole has been making also. I have a few images from Carole to show some of her current earrings.
Here are a few images of my creations that I have been making.
Knitting above
I am knitting some yarn that I dyed about a year or two ago was trying to work out what to use or sell it as – knitting yarn or make up into an item. I had been trying out different mixes of colour depth and combinations. As I was roaming through this stash, I couldn’t help myself as started my free knitting, which is when I sense which knitting needles and number of stitches then commence knitting and will decide as I go the shape, patterning, and length all determined by the weight of the wool.
Here is a little view of some, along with other creations that we have made and will be on show this sunday. thank you
Weaving
To be weaving this length approx 3 metres long and 10cm wide. I have used 100% wool, for both warp and weft. The weft is made up of single o...
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P2P2 This has been a very welcomed addition. I am showing some of the ideas that came forward and looked over some previous weaving that ju...
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This is a dual entry for as I have been thinking about P2P2 and wanted to enter the Australian wool and sheep show in July. I have been a b...
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These images are from Heidi who I thank for being my P2P2 sender and I hope Desiree has ideas for the ones I sent her. My start of P2P2 i...