Tuesday 27 April 2021

Weaving

Trying out some new cotton yarns on the tiny loom to see how they might go together. Will also try a more balanced weave to see how that goes.

Tuesday 20 April 2021

Stitching

I'm back to stitching tonight - working on a textile map of one of our daily walks. This is the field that sometimes has linseed growing it with the beautiful blue flowers but this winter had a mix of plants to help the birds through winter.

Monday 19 April 2021

Outdoor sketching

A sunny afternoon so we went up to Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort on the Ridgeway, and I spent the afternoon doing exploratory sketches. The scratches and blending of colours came from pieces of hard chalk found on site. Not my usual way of drawing!

Sunday 18 April 2021

Weaving

Trying out 2 heddle weaving patterns from an old Dryad booklet from 1971. Quite fun to do but the cheap yarn I used for the samples was a beast to warp up.

Tuesday 13 April 2021

Bookmaking

I'm repurposing an old, falling apart, book. My intention is to make a sketchbook to take out for drawing outdoors. Now it's part way assembled I think it might be too heavy to carry far! The pages are all from recycled papers to give a variety of surfaces to work on. The cover of the book was removed and strengthened and I've just stitched the signatures together over linen tapes to try and provide a bit more strength to the whole structure. I've used French link stitch over the tapes to again provide more rigidity. But I can see that I did not allow enough width between the holes to allow for the tapes to lie flat. You learn by your mistakes!