I recently spent a wonderful week in a workshop with Eva Camacho Sanchez on silk surface techniques and Nuno felting. The first two days were working with silk, paper, fabric paint and dye. We had a lot of colouring, folding, stamping and plopping our bundles into pots of concoctions, and just plain water, on the stove…
My recent trip to San Francisco and stay with Nancy Robertshttp://www.machineknittingtodyefor.com/ netted me a lesson in painting knitted pieces and then two pieces for me to knit up into socks. I love the idea of knitting up pieces and dyeing as opposed to dyeing skeins…more controlled and creative I think. Here, Nancy is checking my…
Nancy Davis & me in San Diego I recently was invited to travel to California by two wonderful Machine Knitting Guilds (San Diego & San Francisco) and it was Nancy Roberts of the San Francisco guild and of machineknittingtodyefor.com who got this ball rolling. My last port of call was San Francisco and a few…
I finally got to go over to my friend Heather’s place to do a couple of hours of dyeing which we had been talking about for ages! Heather is a textile artist, teacher and rug hooker so she dyes her own materials much as I do but more so. We followed the dye mix recipes…
Well, just one short week to go and I’ll be on the road to Toronto for the Spring 2013 One of a Kind Show. It feels kind of fresh for me as I didn’t do it last year so have had a break. I think I went down at Christmastime to look but it’s been…
Well, we’re well into 2012 and so many celebrations happening this year. At our annual Portsmouth Village (which it was until it was incorporated into the City of Kingston in 1958) residents AGM we talked about how the neighbour hood needs to be spiffed up as we will have and influx of sailors this Summer….
Well, it’s all happening! With the Ottawa Originals Spring show just around the corner, a small package arrived a couple of days ago and when I opened it and cut the top off the vacuum sealed bag…poof!…more prefelt! So I set to dyeing right away. The great thing about the Spring and the warmer weather and no…