Thread and Shutter exhibition

The Thread and Shutter exhibition at The Hawth in Crawley comes to a close tomorrow after two very successful weeks.   We have had loads of visitors, many having signed our visitors book.   We all spent the day there last Saturday and had the chance to chat to many old friends and newcomers and the feedback we had was very positive.

It makes all the hard work very worthwhile.

Just a few general shots of the exhibition.

   

   

   

   

 

Words Challenge 4

The fourth and final part of the Words challenge is now complete - Trapped.

As we spend so much time on the coast, I often come across lobster/crab pots, particularly at Selsey so I used this idea as my inspiration.

I started with a piece of fabric I had dyed for the background but as it wasn't really as dark as I wanted, I over printed the fabric first with a foam roller in a wave-like pattern and then with bubble wrap to give the impression of bubbles.

Following the workshop with Kim Thittichai I added some wave shapes created by the painted bondaweb applied to lutradur method.   The completed background was then machine quilted in wavy lines.

For the crab I used dyed towelling and two real crab claws.   The cage was made from plastic garden netting that I overstitched using a zig zag stitch on the sewing machine  The sides were joined together with twisted threads.

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Finished work from Kim Thittichai workshop

As I mentioned last month, I attended a workshop with Kim Thittichai.   Some of the work I started at the workshop is now finished and are currently being exhibited at the Thread and Shutter exhibition at The Hawth in Crawley.

This first piece, Nightime, was created using painted bondaweb applied to coloured lutradur which was in turn cut with a soldering iron and reapplied to more painted lutradur.  Foil, sequins and gilding flakes were also applied at the first stage.

I added simple embroidery stitches using cotton threads.

 

 

 

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The second piece, Skeletal Fragments, also started with painted bondaweb applied to lutradur together with sequins, gilding flakes and some skeletal leaves.   The lutradur was then "cut" using a heat gun.  I also cut strips of organza in the same way.  The strips were then layered and secured to felt using simple stitches.

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December Journal Quilt

For once I am ahead of myself!   I was determined to finish all twelve Journal Quilts so they could be exhibited at the Thread and Shutter exhibition this month so I am very pleased that I achieved it.

The December quilt is once again inspired by one of Wassily Kandinsky's paintings, Pressure from above.

 

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I appliqued some of the shapes from the painting and then quilted further lines and shapes.  The fabric used was from the stash of my own dyed fabric.

 

 

I was also pleased with the way all twelve looked when they were hung at the exhibition.

 

 



Final Rust Inspired Work

My obsession with rust is now coming to an end after nearly four years!

Corrosion - Inchies

 

 

 

This is 12 Inchies mounted in a frame.   The Inches were made by needlefelting various threads, fibres and fabrics to a background of felt.  After cutting, the edge of  each Inchie was finished with buttonhole stitch and beads, sequins and embroidery stitches were added to some, the others we left plain.

 



Corrosion - Something Hidden Underneath

 

 

This was started during the Play Day Jo and I had in February.  I painted both sides of two layers of Tyvek and machined them together with a layer of organza sandwiched in between.   I then applied a heat gun to melt some areas to expose the different layers.

 

I then machined the "fabric" to a background of dyed fabric.

 



Corrosion - Fragile State

This was another piece begun during the February Play Day.  This time a background of organza was decorated with painted bondaweb, foil, sequins and scrim.  I also included some thin, fragile foil threads.  It was then finished with hand embroidered stitches.

While I was at the Festival of Quilts I bought some of Fingerprint Fabric's panels.  One was of rusted ironwork so I bought two.

Corrosion - Fragmented Ironwork

For the first piece I cut the square into five pieces and reassembled them together with my own dyed fabric.    I then machine quilted in straight lines about half an inch apart.  My take on modern quilting!

For the second one I used the circular lines of the design to add lines of embroidery stitches, beads and buttons.  Again I used my own dyed fabric for the background.