Jenn spent the weekend Zooming with Stitch Textile Artists ,a very different experience to spending the weekend with them at Ammerdown.
Working from a chosen image, photo, drawing they were set tasks to explore before coming together to share and discuss what they had done.
Jenn went back to revisit the Maria Stewart pot from Nature In Art as she thought she could develop her ideas further.They were asked to choose two words that would inform their work for the weekend ,Jenn chose CIRCLES and LAYERS .She made a very quick and loose drawing in ink, wax and bleach then used a viewfinder to isolate a part that appealed to work from.Samples were made using one stitch in black and white ,then colour was permitted.Hand dyed fabrics with related marks were used next adding some scrim over one with eyelet stitch to reveal circle shapes, and layering up fabrics on another before gathering up circle shapes.Next colour and black and white could be combined, before finally exploring a more considered way of working on a last sample.After chatting about what had been produced further suggestions will be taken forward.Hopefully, the next time they meet will be in person at Ammerdown and more progress will have been made.
For November Jenn decided to try to do a little stitch each day, just because.She came across some indigo dyed Khadi fabric patches bought some time ago, that were put to one side as they turned her fingers blue ! They were put through the wash and are now fine.This is as far as she has got ....below.
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