Favourites.

Debby had produced this print with Sue Brown and used it to create printed lengths of fabric.She decided she would create a quilted hanging from this one .The fabric she has used for the edge makes a lovely foil especially with the accents of colour on the top right .She found just the right match in a charity shop.She will add accents of metallic to highlight areas such as the beetle.

She had sourced Konjac Gum powder  for laminating paper and strengthening them for for momigami  

www.japanese paper place .com

She had also been experimenting with using a laser cut garden ornament to create a rust print .To make it safer to handle she had used tea to dye with .Tea binds with the rust and neutralises the iron oxide.

She also came across some Cyanotype prints she had set aside and is thinking how they might be used.

Another piece she had found was a favourite transfer paint piece.She had made a start on some stitching but intends to go back and add more .

While on holiday in Chichester she found this in a charity shop .It ties around the shoulders like a cape but is a polyester fabric.She bought it for inspiration and had some interesting facts about butterflies and moths.Butterflies navigate by the sun while moths do it by the moon and stars ,hence their diurnal and nocturnal habits .

 

Fishing.

Jenn printed one of her drawings onto cotton for her ‘Red’ interpretation but didn’t get around to adding any stitch.

She was trying to work out how she might use her fish prints on cotton to create a larger piece.The problem was her printer only prints to A4. Joining them left a harsh line of stitching ,so she thought about piecing them like Bojagi.

Then she tried using a cording foot and stitching curved lines to mimic water.The jury is still out !She was disappointed that Prinfab www.prinfab.com no longer offered organza as one of their fabrics.She may try Contrado www.contrado.co.uk. 

After taking an online workshop with Kate Semple www.katesemple.co. uk  making card jugs Jenn had used the idea to make an oval dish. She had the song ‘When the boat comes in ‘ playing in her head.

Tetrapak prints of Mackerel sit on it .She has plans to create a matching piece which is in the early stages of production.It may happen or not .

She had found a frame ,with three apertures ,locally and was trying out more tetrapak prints.These had included’chine colle ‘,she thought she might get another frame and do some more .

Exhibits

This is Janis’s interpretation of the Red prompt from last  month .It has a ‘flavour ‘ of 

Charles Rennie Mackintosh about it .

          

She hasn’t exhibited with us before but brought along some pieces she has had framed .

We think they will be just fine .

She is starting a City and Guilds in Tredegar House near Newport soon. She went to an exhibition there and was taken with what she saw and signed up !