Sew what have I been up to lately?

I have finished all my away from home teaching for the year and have had 3 weeks at home just playing in the Zone! Talk about luxury.....my idea of a good time is having alone time in my studio with no other demands of orders to fill, classes to prepare, packing to go away, unpacking from being away, catching up on washing, dealing with emails, just playing in my studio with the air con on and my music loud. It truely is luxury.

Sew what have I been doing? Well since the opening of the new textile gallery in Braidwood NSW Material Arts I have been allowing myself to play on smaller scale projects, experimenting with techniques and exploring little whims. Without the pressure in the back of your mind that you have to produce another huge, elaborate shop stopping, award winning quilt, the creative soul is allowed to just follow whims and little ideas and let them happen. As a result I have produced over a dozen smaller pieces in the past 3 weeks, all suitable for sale all good explorations of ideas with potential to be expanding into a bigger piece in the future. I have found a few variations in the way I like to combine my painting and design and dyeing and stitching and it feels great. So I shall share a few of the piece I have recently created.

They have price tags attached and would make excellent Christmas presents for the most important person in your life......you!

These pieces will be on display at Braidwood Material Arts from next weekend saturday 27th Novemeber....which is Braidwood's big weekend with the famous Airing of the Quilts......well worth the 1 hour drive from Canberra for a fantastic day out.

Drop me an email if you you require more info and are interested in purchasing any of the pieces below.

Sew.....first we have......ProCRABstination.......which is what I feel I have been doing...avoiding launching into the next big piece but sometimes taking a little time is a good thing to prepare for a big launch.

ProCRABstination

50 x 75 cm. Background hand painted using a watercolour technique on cotton. Blue swimmer Crab painted with acrylic paint. Extensively stitched and beaded through the foreground adding texture to the sand. $325.00 AU SOLD

Magpie Melody on Red

 50 x 65 cm Acrylic painted magppes on Ricky Tims hand dyed background. Extensively stitched background and thread painting on the magpies. The red really does glow $188 AU

MOONshells

55 x 85cm. Commercial hand dye background in stunning colours which spoke to me of moonlight on the sandy shore. Handpainted in acrylic, precious vunerable turtles are hatching. The shells are trapunto ( yep they are stuffed!) and 3D....the moon and shells share the same glowing pearlescence. Lots of free motion stitching details with rocks and sand and waves crashing on the shore. In the sky the clouds have been enhanced with yarn couching, just hapened to have yarn with the exact same colour combo of orange purple and navy blue. New couching foot the my Husqvarna Sapphire 870 works great....lots of potential there for getting off the lounge and couching  !$325 AU

Morning Maggie! #2

50 x 65cm. Background hand painted using a watercolour technique on cotton. Magpies painted with acrylic paint. Extensively stitched sunrise in glowing warm colours with heavy thread painting on the magpies. $188 AU  SOLD

Luminous Lizards #2

(As you can see if you are still reading...I have finally got the hang of adding images to this computer thingy withoput too much frustration....ya for me!)

30 x 70cm. Second in a series of funky lizards, bathing in the sun light with lots of decorative doodling. With these I hand dye the circle shape first, then stitch the lizards with black thread going crazy with patterns and doodling and then paint into the design...it is so much fun. I enjoy the doodling and the colouring in so much ....is like being in preschool again..and I stay in the lines! $188 AU

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