http://www.lovefibre.com Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:58:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've signed up to get a sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project 2011 - run by Art House Co-op in Brooklyn. A little scary, but I (virtually) know quite a few people who're taking part - and anyone can join in - it should be a great project to be part ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/06/21/the-sketchbook-project/ While I was looking at napkin rings and cuffs on Flickr, I saw this beautiful forest poetry cuff by Cathy Cullis, and it gave me the clue I needed for the final element in my hospitality piece. I loved the combination of fabric and text, and the frayed 'wabi sabi' ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/06/16/the-last-lap-the-table-runner/ For the first trial felt mat, I decided to needlefelt dots of fibre within a circular area, leaving a border of undecorated felt where I was going to try writing some text. I can't post a photo as I sent off the samples with my assignment without taking any, ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/06/16/the-last-lap-changing-direction/ I should warn that this post is going to be long - it's the tale of my final assignment for OCA Textiles 1, "A Design Project". I've posted the package, I've written the evaluation, I just need to record the process and - I'm done. Three years including my deferment ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/06/16/the-last-lap-developing-the-theme/ In her comments on my fabric manipulation assignment, my tutor mentioned that when writing about my work I should 'extend [my] frame of reference to include the work of other artists and craftspersons' - to show that I'm aware of contemporary and historical textiles and to show how I'm influenced ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/05/25/context-and-originality-or-who-said-it-first/ One final post about the 'Textile Structures' module - though actually it's the first exercise - working from a visual source and analysing colour, texture and proportion. Choosing an image and first painting blocks of colour, then wrapping card with yarn, is intended to make you look closely at the ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/05/24/playing-with-colour/ I've enjoyed all the exercises in the 'Textile Structures' section of OCA Textiles 1. One exercise involved making a frame and wrapping, binding and interlacing materials in an improvisational way to create areas of solidity and space, light and shade. I made a little frame from bamboo skewers lashed ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/05/23/tied-up-in-knots/ The little tapestry that came out of thinking about laundry, sacredness and prayer rags is done (and even packaged and waiting to send off to my tutor!). It came out very close to what I envisaged. As I wrote in the previous post, I chose the word ‘sacred’ from ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/05/22/sacred-in-ordinary/ The main focus of this stage of my OCA Textiles 1 course is tapestry weaving. There are several exercises, leading up to a resolved sample. The first is to try out different techniques. I used Kirsten Glasbrook's book Tapestry Weaving which has a lot of hands-on information and excellent photos ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/05/10/tapestry/ This exercise was to create structures from strips of paper, card and other materials. two sheets of painted card interwoven cutting the paper weft into curves magazine page woven with scrunched tissue paper adding diagonal lines weaving strips of a plastic bag I like the middle one because of the texture and the way the weft ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/04/21/paper-weaving/