bowls - again

Forgot to show you the other recent bowls:

More bowls - including 2 sets

More bowls

 

Bowls - again

Yet more bowls: This makes 50 so far!

New Bowls

New Bowls:

Sunday Project

I have found it difficult to do any artwork over the last few days - you see I was hoping to see Jane yesterday.   I know she would want me to get on with my work - so after my morning walk this morning I made some notes (yes I made notes), I plan on doing some stitching this afternoon but before lunch I proceeded to make a quick card project - maybe to sell for Valentines day.    So I did this..................................................................................... and cut these

Then I made this.............................  and ended up with these 
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More Waste Not Want Not Items and finally some new work

Still not too well but hey that is not going to stop me at the moment :-) . My range of Waste Not Want Not items has grown again - I now have a range of note cards for sale in my Etsy shop

 New Work - As some of you know I often spend a Saturday working on my textiles but at the home of Jane Lemon - she is so inspirational, encouraging and I love her to bits.  Recently we discussed the fact that I am currently having a bit of a creative block (mostly because I am not well). Well a while ago we had a discussion about the fact that I am not very good at design for textile art pieces so Jane volunteered to teach me!! So I took some of my hundreds of pictures of doors to her one weekend.  We cut and arranged the pics into a 'design'.

 Then I had to trace it and fill in with tonal values to get the idea - my 'homework' was to transfer the design to calico ready for the next session.       When I got home that time I remembered I had been on a course with Wendy Dolan where I had done a nice technique of building fabrics, painting and stitching - ending up with these:

So I thought I would build up this new design in the same technique.

However when I got to the painting stage my colours were meant to be more gentle and bluer..  They came out a little too bright

So I left the piece (sorry no photo of the whole piece) until yesterday when I took all of the stuff to Jane.  Although my blue piece was OK and I could have just continued to work on it Jane took the scissors to it!! With my blessing, of course.  I remember letting Val Campbell-Harding do the same to my work in the past!!

We then rearranged my new work and added the work done with Wendy - in to the piece below - it needs a lot more work yet but at least  am doing something!!

 Here are a couple of close up pics of new new pieces - lots more stitching to go.

Making again and again and again

UPDATE - I have been selling these to France, USA and UK over the last few days - Whoop Whoop!!

Have spent this weekend - making recycled fabric notebook and sketchbook covers - the fabrics include sari silk and unique fabrics made by me. Some include A5 sketchbooks, some include A5 lined notebooks, some are A6 and contain a mixture of recycled papers - including brown paper, wallpaper and coloured papers. Now I just need somewhere to sell them!!