New group.

Liz is exhibiting with this new group but be quick it's not on for long.

Rocks and rivers

Sally has completed her river journey book and is toying with starting a new one.

We suggested that as she lives very close to a river (Avon),she might consider a journey along it ! It would certainly be different than her usual river journeys.

Ira meanwhile has been continuing with her rocks,

if laid among mosses and lichens this piece could be mistaken for the real thing.

She also showed this,one of her painted and burned fabrics she has started to embellish with additions of beads and stitch.

Fabrics fun.

Liz has been very productive recently producing lots of interesting fabrics.She spent a few days at the Festival of Quilts in August doing a workshop with Leslie Morgan.These are her results.

Aren't they interesting?They were a mixture of thermofax  printing and applying paint with a credit card.

She will have lots to play with, you'll have fun spotting where she uses it!

She has continued to Eco- dye with leaves etc. from her garden.This time she trapped them between Khadi paper sheets,wrapped them in cardboard and string,then steamed for an hour.

The images are so clear,and such beautiful colours,

These little zig zag books are lovely too.

Not content with all of this fabric creation she chose one of her husband's photographs of trees,manipulated in a computer program,then sent it off to Spoonflower.

She has yards of this evocative fabric and plans already for its use.Perhaps you'll see it at Nature In Art next Easter.

Ready

Deryll brought another of her finished pieces,framed and ready for Echoes.

It's a beautifully worked Tulip.

Jenn had gone away from last meeting and printed the fabric with her hand made blocks,added some wire ammonites and loosely assembled the layers.Finally it is fit for purpose!

Pathways

Another diary date for you

            Pathways. 

      South West Textile Group

     29th Sept-25th October

      Ilminster Meeting House

Marilyn and Liz will be taking part.

Looking forward ........and back.

Marilyn had been playing with shibori and brought along this test piece.

It is a woven piece which has been pleated ,tied and dyed in indigo,I think.We look forward to seeing more.She also showed us some of her woven fabrics made up into bags.

Jane had found this illustration,she intends to use it for inspiration for her poppy piece.

I think she said it came from an early 20th. century seed catalogue,so in keeping with the period.

Her thoughts are turning towards new pieces and she showed us this

It's  the beginning of a design she is working to digitize on her very complicated machine.It won't look like this when she has finished.

Decisions

Debby had used some photos of a poppy field,might even be the one in Failand earlier this Summer,and had worked some stitching into them.

              

She had different versions framed and was undecided as to which was the most appropriate for our Poppy display in Echoes.

One was much more sombre than this one .It's amazing what a different coloured mount can do.

She also brought this framed piece of St Ives 

It is very recognisably ' Debby' with its Cornish blues and yellows.She also brought along a drop-cloth from one of her workshops.She said she very often has small amounts of paint or dye left that she is reluctant to waste.Instead of tipping away she throws them at the cloth,leaves overnight and is often pleasantly surprised at what greets her the following day.

Not a good photo but you get the idea.It will be interesting to revisit this after she has had a play.