The opening for the SDA exhibit was this past
Friday night and Arlee has put up two posts of photos and comments on the SDA blog.
You can see it here: http://surfacedesignalberta.blogspot.ca/
Thanks to friends Ros, Kirsten, Yogi, and Liz for coming out to help celebrate surface design!
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April 15, 2014
April 04, 2014
WHAT'S ON THE SURFACE?
First exhibit in 2014!
I am so happy to announce this great start to the year. I have been busy creating new pieces and want to share them with you.
The Surface Design Association
is an International group connecting fibre and mixed media artists.
Surface Design encompasses the coloring, patterning, and structuring of
fiber and fabric. This involves creative exploration of processes such
as printing, dyeing, painting, stitching, embellishing, quilting,
weaving, knitting, felting, and papermaking. The Alberta chapter has
over 54 members; 24 artists are participating in the first Alberta SDA
exhibit.
I delivered my two pieces yesterday, the show was hung today, and it opens tomorrow, Saturday the 5th. I will be attending the opening on Friday, April 11th and invite everyone to come out and chat with the many artists who will be present.
May 23, 2013
Heading south...
I have just finished "upcycling" a carrier bag for IN.TER.FACE, the 2013 Surface Design Conference in San Antonio.
The interesting thing is that it is being recycled from the 2003 Embroiderer's Guild of Canada conference I went to Nova Scotia. I met my husband after that conference in Quebec City to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversay.
Now he and I are headed to New Mexico (Santa Fe and Taos) for a couple of weeks to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary before ending up in San Antonio, Texas.
Taxi's here - gotta go.
Look out for posts from the southwest in the next couple of weeks!
The interesting thing is that it is being recycled from the 2003 Embroiderer's Guild of Canada conference I went to Nova Scotia. I met my husband after that conference in Quebec City to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversay.
Now he and I are headed to New Mexico (Santa Fe and Taos) for a couple of weeks to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary before ending up in San Antonio, Texas.
Taxi's here - gotta go.
Look out for posts from the southwest in the next couple of weeks!
October 03, 2011
ECO COLOUR - 7
Round 2 for the solar dyeing in the jars that were packed full of goodies then left in the sun on my deck...
After 20 days of being in our hot August sun (and we had a very hot summer, with many days over 30c) I opened the various jars of silk and wool that I had packed with vinegar, copper, coffee...
Dried red rose petals from 30 years worth of anniversaries and Valentine Day roses...
Dried red rose petals with coffee:
Here is the one that used dried pink rose petals:
Freshly picked purple petunia blossoms:
Hanging to dry...
The petals shaken off and left in the grass to be re-used on the next round of dyeing...
After 20 days of being in our hot August sun (and we had a very hot summer, with many days over 30c) I opened the various jars of silk and wool that I had packed with vinegar, copper, coffee...
Dried red rose petals from 30 years worth of anniversaries and Valentine Day roses...
Hanging to dry...
The petals shaken off and left in the grass to be re-used on the next round of dyeing...
September 30, 2011
ECO COLOUR - 6
...results from the Cherries and Raspberries...
The cherries produced a browned pink - quite lovely. And the shibori worked wonderfully well.
And the raspberries were quite pink... but will it last?
These will be set aside for a couple of weeks before being washed and rinsed out to see the final colours produced.
The cherries produced a browned pink - quite lovely. And the shibori worked wonderfully well.
And the raspberries were quite pink... but will it last?
These will be set aside for a couple of weeks before being washed and rinsed out to see the final colours produced.
September 25, 2011
ECO COLOUR - 5
Late July and August is CHERRY season here is Calgary, fruit coming in from the Okanogan, British Columbia - my favourite fruit, so I collected lots of stems and pits. Towards the end, the cherries get a little iffy and I could save some of the rotted fruit. So - what do to with it? Dye of course!
Silk scarves wrapped shibori style and ready to dye:
The pot of fabric and fruit cooking away:
I was leaving town the next day, so I just put the whole thing in the cold room and walked away...
But that same afternoon, I got called by a neighbour to come and pick RASPBERRIES, that were falling off the plants. I collected many good ones to eat fresh and make into jam, but I also collected the over-ripe ones in a quart jar, filled it with water, and put it in the cold room until I could deal with it when I returned to town.
But before I could put them away, an afternoon hail storm hit that the Prairies are so famous for...
The most amazing thing about this storm were the clouds - I have never seen ones that look like these before!!!
Babies bums! It was amazing...
And as quick as it came, it blew away:
Silk scarves wrapped shibori style and ready to dye:
But that same afternoon, I got called by a neighbour to come and pick RASPBERRIES, that were falling off the plants. I collected many good ones to eat fresh and make into jam, but I also collected the over-ripe ones in a quart jar, filled it with water, and put it in the cold room until I could deal with it when I returned to town.
But before I could put them away, an afternoon hail storm hit that the Prairies are so famous for...
The most amazing thing about this storm were the clouds - I have never seen ones that look like these before!!!
August 21, 2011
ECO COLOURS - 4
Back on July 31st I started three jars of sun dyeing as per India Flint's instructions - put fabric in jar, add plant material and fluid, seal and leave alone!
After two weeks of very hot weather I was seeing lots of action in the jars and decided to open them.
Jar 1 contained (1) a silk chiffon scarf wrapped around eucalyptus leaves and (2) a rayon scarf wrapped around dried cedar branches and leaves. Dill pickle brine was poured over and it was sealed.
Jar 2 contained (1) a silk rayon devore scarf scattered with dried red rose petals, rolled and folded, and (2) a wool fabric bit rolled with dried cotoneaster branches + dried red rose petals + a chain of rusty metal bells. Again dill pickle brine filled the jar and sealed.
Jar 3 contained (1) a pre-printed piece of linen rolled around a cotoneaster branch, and (2) wool wrapped around more cotoneaster branches and leaves. This time cold coffee was poured over top to cover and sealed.
Here is a shot of 5 of the 6 fabrics once they were taken out of the jars but left to dry in a green pail during a thunderstorm. In vertical rows they are: one of the first jar, the second pickle jar, and to the left, the coffee jar.
Rinsed and opened up they looked like this...
Silk chiffon with eucalyptus in pickle brine... (not much, as I afterwards learnt that wool takes the eucalyptus leaves better)
Silk devore and wool with the rose petals in the pickle brine...
Linen and wool from the coffee jar...
My favourite? The gorgeous rose petal printed silk devore scarf - luscious colours!
After two weeks of very hot weather I was seeing lots of action in the jars and decided to open them.
Jar 1 contained (1) a silk chiffon scarf wrapped around eucalyptus leaves and (2) a rayon scarf wrapped around dried cedar branches and leaves. Dill pickle brine was poured over and it was sealed.
Jar 2 contained (1) a silk rayon devore scarf scattered with dried red rose petals, rolled and folded, and (2) a wool fabric bit rolled with dried cotoneaster branches + dried red rose petals + a chain of rusty metal bells. Again dill pickle brine filled the jar and sealed.
Jar 3 contained (1) a pre-printed piece of linen rolled around a cotoneaster branch, and (2) wool wrapped around more cotoneaster branches and leaves. This time cold coffee was poured over top to cover and sealed.
Here is a shot of 5 of the 6 fabrics once they were taken out of the jars but left to dry in a green pail during a thunderstorm. In vertical rows they are: one of the first jar, the second pickle jar, and to the left, the coffee jar.
Rinsed and opened up they looked like this...
Silk chiffon with eucalyptus in pickle brine... (not much, as I afterwards learnt that wool takes the eucalyptus leaves better)
Silk devore and wool with the rose petals in the pickle brine...
Linen and wool from the coffee jar...
My favourite? The gorgeous rose petal printed silk devore scarf - luscious colours!
August 19, 2011
ECO COLOURS - 3
These are the last of my steamed bundles that I had in a pot of rusted iron pieces and used tea bags.
This piece of dupioni silk was first pleated, clamped, stitched and simmered for a couple of hours. It was rinsed and left to dry (still clamped) for a week. It was then opened up and filled with fresh coral coloured geranium petals in between each pleat. Clamped once again, it went back into the same iron+tea dye bath. Left for another week to completely dry - this is what came out...
Love it! It is worth framing as is...
In that group was a silk rayon devore scarf that was wrapped in a dried branch of a poplar tree with the leaves and branches. After steaming and drying, here is the result...
Decent where it was touching the branch, but no action going further into the folds.
A piece of cotton was rust dye with a shovel end, dip #2 was crumpled up and covered with elastic bands and put into iron/teabag dye bath, dried, then dip #3 was folded and clamped and redipped into the iron/tea bath. Dried and opened revealed this nice grid over the shovel-printed rust.
And the 4th piece was again cotton, wrapped around three dried sunflower plants (stalks and heads) and tied tightly with cotton. The only print was where it was directly touching the plant head and the rest of the cotton was white.
But wait until you see what came out of the jars!!
This piece of dupioni silk was first pleated, clamped, stitched and simmered for a couple of hours. It was rinsed and left to dry (still clamped) for a week. It was then opened up and filled with fresh coral coloured geranium petals in between each pleat. Clamped once again, it went back into the same iron+tea dye bath. Left for another week to completely dry - this is what came out...
In that group was a silk rayon devore scarf that was wrapped in a dried branch of a poplar tree with the leaves and branches. After steaming and drying, here is the result...
A piece of cotton was rust dye with a shovel end, dip #2 was crumpled up and covered with elastic bands and put into iron/teabag dye bath, dried, then dip #3 was folded and clamped and redipped into the iron/tea bath. Dried and opened revealed this nice grid over the shovel-printed rust.
And the 4th piece was again cotton, wrapped around three dried sunflower plants (stalks and heads) and tied tightly with cotton. The only print was where it was directly touching the plant head and the rest of the cotton was white.
But wait until you see what came out of the jars!!
August 17, 2011
ECO COLOURS - 2
I have started opening my bundles... and you just never know what you are going to see.
This silk chiffon scarf was scattered with fresh rose petals and then wrapped tightly around a cotoneaster branch. It was steamed for a couple of hours, cooled off very slowly, then put out in the air to dry totally.
The first removal of cotton ties was promising...
and the outer wraps showed lovely colouring...
Here it is opened up completely...
And a closeup of the rose petals...
But on it is still light, so I shall leave it to cure longer before the final rinse.
Two of my wrapped bundles were put into a black garbage bag to "heat set". When I took them out two weeks later they were still wet, so I put them in a shady spot to dry completely.
This silk rayon devore scarf was scattered with fresh rose petals and wrapped - opening it was a treat...
Shaking out the semi dried petals... and the layout...
The third piece I did was a rayon scarf. Fresh geranium petals were wrapped tightly around a stick and steamed. Out of the black bag it was air dried. The unwrapping still covered with petals...
Still more bundles to come...
This silk chiffon scarf was scattered with fresh rose petals and then wrapped tightly around a cotoneaster branch. It was steamed for a couple of hours, cooled off very slowly, then put out in the air to dry totally.
Two of my wrapped bundles were put into a black garbage bag to "heat set". When I took them out two weeks later they were still wet, so I put them in a shady spot to dry completely.
This silk rayon devore scarf was scattered with fresh rose petals and wrapped - opening it was a treat...
The third piece I did was a rayon scarf. Fresh geranium petals were wrapped tightly around a stick and steamed. Out of the black bag it was air dried. The unwrapping still covered with petals...
Still more bundles to come...
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