Glass

A workshop by Patty Gray - Wow is the most frequent word that came to mind. Wow because Patty showed and shared how to make glass into works of art in ones own way. To explore and gain confidence in opening a kiln, then to be given the chance to move my molten glass into new ideas. This workshop happened nearly a month ago in Melbourne at Axess glass, and ran over three very full fun filled days. I was able to try out a lot and here is the results - bowl, bas relief, reactive glass, combing, boxing platter, and skills glore. I thank Sue and Tammy (Axess glass) along with all that were there as they made it so enjoyable.

bowl - Mine and the green a friend who also attend workshop, with much looking forward to next year when Patti is back to teach us more wonderful skills.

Combing process from kiln to cooling

Bas relief front and back views

Joint project for workshop ( we three made)

Platter - using vitrgraph and differnet glass's

Sushi platter - copper mesh, vitograph, boxed method and much cutting of glass into small pieces to fill form.

I thank my friend Carole for her images as some of the above are her photos from the workshop, my camera is hiding at present.

The holiday season brings in texture

I have been taking in the recent warm weather to do some baking of shortbread, along with trying out small banana breads from a recipe I decided to test out. This is my regetting to know cooking with the oven again after a long time as the sampling is more how I eat my cooking most of the time.



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.