Second Entry for the Brott Music Festival

Three Corner Hat Dance

This was much fun to make and designed very quickly. I had the hand dyed fabric by Elaine Quehl on hand and the rest came together nicely.Shiva Sticks added dimension to the centre of the hats and the quilting put in the action of the sound waves.

Results from summer painting day

Sometimes in the summer there isn't much time for sewing with company, travelling and family commitments. Don't get me wrong I loved this summer. We managed to see everyone from Timmins Ontario, to Chelsea Quebec. There was lots of laughter, card playing, golf and barbeques.

BUT

I managed to sneak in a few days of creating in my studio.I pulled out this piece which I had silk screened in a class given by Gilda Rayner.This was quite a departure for me. The only thing that needed to be done was stitching and embellishing. There was no iron on Wonder Undering, very liberating indeed.I quite like the results.

This detail is of a piece that was painted by Suzette McSkimming an artist who makes wonderful paintings. On our fabric painting day this is what she produced, I proceeded to stitch and bead and love the result. This is a great two person project.

Here are the details from a couple of colour washes. Very intreguing this is, I must do more and bigger.

PAINTING Camp

This summer some fabulous fibre friends and I thought that we would get together and paint some fabric.With the help of my DH we set up our garage and I waited for all to come.

Ready for business.

Patricia diving in.

Suzette, Joanne and Patricia hard totally focussed on the techniques.

Marvelous colours came by design and by accident. When delicious shades were created of course we had to share.

The time flew by.

Yvonne is added to the group, and she made marvelous sun prints.

Experimentation was the key to delicious results.

My coloured lawn.

Rayon was an interesting fabric to work with. It will be fun to see what Cathy will make with this batch. At one point she was painting huge pieces.

A finished sun print using sequin waste.Lovely!

We had a wonderful day and were pretty pooped when we were done. Of course I wished that I had taken more pics,especially of our finished pieces.