Fiddling with this and that.

Jenn had been playing with a variety of things to keep herself ticking .She found an idea   so had created some fabrics from things she had around then made up some pouches.They gave her an opportunity to use her sewing machine and to use up some ribbon ,lace and old linens .She added some hand stitch too.

Using another idea found on the 'net she used layers of marks, painting in areas then drawing over with Posca pens  lines to build patterns.Then taking a viewfinder she isolated areas that seemed to work and cut them out .Ideas for this include maybe printing onto fabric before adding stitch or just using as they are to add to book covers.

She had also enrolled in the GELL PRINT SUMMIT .This was a group of fourteen artists chosen by Drew Steinbrecher to offer a video lesson imparting their way of working.Above are the prints Jenn produced based on the Tara Axford video .These will be used to make small collages .The course was inspiring and with lifetime access Jenn is keen to try out the variety of ways of working.

Last she brought along her Solar dyeing tryout based on the directions of Claire Wellesley Smith .She had used St.John's Wort ,Rose Leaves and Birch leaves in the first jars .They were very similar but have slight differences in colour She had some avocado skins and stones so tried them later,despite the jar looking very pink the resulting fabric was very pale .