Festival of Quilts

Last weekend I went to the Festival of Quilts.  I am very fortunate that the show is only a 25 minute bus ride away.  I have a bus pass so the journey is free and I don't have to pay the extortionate amount that is charged for parking.   I was also very fortunate to be given a ticket for the show in return for an hour's stewarding on Leah Higgin's gallery.  Surrounded by breakdown printing!!

I spent much longer at the show than I would normally and I think I still managed to miss bits because photos come up on my Facebook newsfeed of textiles I don't remember seeing.  In this post you will only see photos of things that caught my eye.

Connecting threads, fading borders by Annelies Ghyselen

Plot 105: 52 weeks by Alice Fox

Several pieces by Eszter Bornemisza

I think this piece may have been the most popular exhibit in the show.  It's certainly the one I've see most on my Facebook newsfeed.

Breakdown by Sue Hotchkiss

Binic Boat Stack by Deborah Sexton

Summer Time by Janet Bevan

Twelve by Natalia Davydenko

Three Poems by Stephanie Redfern

shallow water by hanne ladegaard

Fractured Circles by Robyn Fahy

Blue Mesh by Lucie Summers

Venice by Janice Gunner

Fading ii by Christine Chester

And after spending more than an hour in Leah's gallery I did not take one photo of her work.  What was I thinking!!!!??!!

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

P is for Promise

In our Living Your Word of the Year group we are using a fortnightly (bi-weekly) A-Z challenge throughout the year to help us focus on our word and live it out.

Because of the way I have made my journal it's a case of going with the flow of what background the pages have when I turn to them.

I'm not sure why I put candles on the page - I just knew I wanted to use the washi tape!

I found various Bible verses about promises and printed out four of them.

And here are the two pages together.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

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More Master Practitioner Module 2

Last time I showed you the samples I made.

I made this zigzag book based on a class by Kasia Avery in the Wanderlust classes.  The different papers were glued together.

And after gesso, paint, stencilling and stitching it looked like this.

I took this with me when I went to Leah Higgins' studio to do the breakdown printing course.  Whilst the rust brown and petrol green gave me darker colours than my painted version, it gave me a palette to work on for the final piece.

The final pages of my workbook show the zigzag book on the left and the folded photos of the samples with the information about each sample on the right.

 The photos of the samples opened out.

For the final piece of this module, I am thinking of making a wall hanging consisting of 3 panels, each of maximum size 15cms by 1.65m. The panels will be attached to wooden industrial textile bobbins.

I will use this for an exhibition with Traverse. The theme for the exhibition is Senses. A walk along the canal is a sensory experience – sights, sounds, smells.

This photo shows a mock up using photos of the breakdown printed fabric. These photos were taken before the fabrics were washed out. The final fabrics are paler than this.

With the samples I have tried out various techniques using nuno felting – using a photo printed on silk, handmade silk paper with a photo transferred to it, batik on tissue, fabric piecing using Bondaweb, printing with acrylic paint on fabric, photographs of collages printed on silk and on cotton, fabric and paper collage, and breakdown printing.

The final design will hopefully consist of rectangles and squares of the breakdown printed cotton with added rectangles of nuno felting, collaged photos printed on cotton, batik on tissue and other elements from the sample.  I will layer these onto lawn or scrim with a cotton backing and stitch through the layers.

I'll let you know how I get on!

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice