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Wednesday 29 August 2012

How shameful!

I am ashamed at just how long it is since my last post!  I could make all the excuses under the sun but I won't waste my or yours.

Here's a brief update on the last 7/8 months, not necessarily in the right order!

April saw another exhibition by Thread and Shutter, this time at our local Library in Crawley.   The exhibition was a fantastic room with great light and a professional, purpose built gallery hanging system (not without it's problems until we got the hang of it!).   Our work did look great in the location and although we did not have as many visitors (our fault because we did not publicise the exhibition enough) those who did come were very enthusiastic about our work.

Here are a couple of photos  but you can see more on our website - www.threadandshutter.co.uk .




Most of the work on display was from our previous exhibition last November but there were several new pieces as well.

The first two are a continuation on the theme "Rust Meets Water" which was our opportunity to combine my rust work with Jo's water work.



This was based on Rick Timms' convergence quilt method and incorporates some panels printed using a Thermofax screen after combining the panels.


This combines my favourite media - needlefelted fibres and embroidery which was then mounted on a quilted fabric which had been dyed in the theme.  The embroidery extends on to the background.

The next collection was based on a photo of Brian's of the Grand Prismatic Springs in Yellowstone Park, USA.


Brian's photo - with apologies if I've ruined it by changing the resolution!


The first piece uses three pieces of fabric, dyed especially for the work, with added lines of machine quilting and some threads and fibres machined in too.


Yet another piece of embroidered felt, this time a piece made by wet-felting.  This was made when Jo and I had a 'play day' making felt and dying - I will report on this over the next week.


This was strips of sari silk needlefelted to a felt background and then embellished with embroidery stitches and buttons.


This was again sari silk needlefelted to a felt background and then cut up into squares on the cross and reassembled.  Embroidery stitches and gem stones were added to each corner.


In May it was the Ruby Wedding of our closest friends, Tony and Christine.  Using the same method as the last piece above, I created a framed picture for them using red sari silk.  


So you can see I have been busy and creative since my last post!

There is more so hopefully, now I'm back, I will post some more over the next week and then continue to post more regularly in the future.