A body of work is born with a couple of days away camping in the Scenic Rim
The “Gumridge Collection ” will be available for purchase through my instagram account soon so if you wish to see them ……. follow me ecowott
I have been busy making….. sewing and hand stitching garments then a dip in the bundle pot, in readiness for the annual Arts in the Olives Festival, along with Open Studios and the opening of our new little CO-OP venture in Canungra aptly named Scenic Rim Artisans
eucalyptus on wool jersey
love those marks
The little shop / co op venture is at 8 Kidston st Canungra QLD 4275
Scenic Rim Artisans
on the clothes rack
Greeting of the season ….. a snap shot of my year
and here’s to a productive, creative and fun filled 2017 xx
I have been itching to get “blue”…… indigo blue and at last a simple and affordable introduction to the how to’s. Located in Brisbane at a great workspace aptly named Work-Shop, they have outlets in Melbourne and Sydney too.
“Creative Classes for Curious Minds”
So I got my hands blue and loads of other stuff..thanks to teacher Claudia Husband.
I have been stuffing jars with silk thread and tissue silk in the Stuff Steep and Store method albeit with less store than some. I leave them on the balcony rail in the sun where they get visited by one of our cats.
This afternoon seemed like the right time to open two jars, one was Coreopsis flower with copper pictured third from the left {above} and the other Montbretia flowers second from the left which are a weed here. Pictured on my new apron that has been made from an opshop (suspect) silk nightshirt, it has two pockets one especially for my trusty secateurs.
While the weather is hot I find it arduous to boil up a big pot. Simplifying things down to jar size has been fun. Purple carrot has become a bit of a star along with Coriopsis flowers.
I have been using up small scraps of material and embroidery thread which is silk and is available on my Etsy Store.
The next few photos show the colour shift and oxidation of the purple carrot from wet to dry then after washing.
This is wet and just out of the jar pre boiled and sat outside for not quite a month. I have put one in storage and do plan to leave it for a whole year, silk boxer shorts with eucalyptus and flowers from my Christmas bouquet.
Now to my surprise this is the colour shift a couple of hours latter…..
Then I washed and pressed the pieces cotton, silk velvet, wool jersey that had previously been bundle dyed and thread silk and wool.
as a good bye to 2015 here are some of my endeavours over the past year…
see i am still dyeing
and sewing
playing with hexagons
found some new endeavours
so happy new year
Good wishes to you all for a creative 2016..
Wishing You a Happy Christmas time and the best for the coming Year…. the bouquet from my garden will become a bundle ….
We made our way to the ATASDA hub ( Brisbane) on Saturday for the Christmas market aptly named “Merry Threads” a fun day out. Great to catch up with the ladies, I don’t get to these meetings often enough so it was good to touch base.
Now on day three …… and 3 days is my limit my head is in a spin so much to take in. This Cas Holmes workshop has probably been the most challenging workshop that I have attended, not physically but mentally probing all parts of me.
Wendi Trulson 