tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57025110459118689752024-03-16T07:08:16.766+00:00magstitchDiary of an avid stitcher.Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.comBlogger475125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-29050531658758676562016-04-13T08:54:00.002+01:002016-04-13T08:56:22.904+01:00Catalogues Revisited<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_mz8NFXFfO5s0hW9Ob-TStfjEccOoLoYEuvWV7D3XnvUZGk8vQW8eln0mu3NSNvo4-2LoeUSjfLoe5Xp7i1Ps4Wr13x0cOkTIkBvn0h9kfLKrdTLKCJ-TpP8U243n5OJQGe-kBysuYQ/s1600/catalogue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_mz8NFXFfO5s0hW9Ob-TStfjEccOoLoYEuvWV7D3XnvUZGk8vQW8eln0mu3NSNvo4-2LoeUSjfLoe5Xp7i1Ps4Wr13x0cOkTIkBvn0h9kfLKrdTLKCJ-TpP8U243n5OJQGe-kBysuYQ/s320/catalogue.jpg" width="262" /></a>I don't hang out here much these days as I write most of my news on my Chez Grey website www.workshopontheweb.com/chezgrey.<br />
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There's has been some reminiscencelately about the catalogue project that some of us undertook a few years ago. Here's my pic below and you can find out more about it by clicking on the labels (see right) marked catalogue.<br />
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It is a long process as the catalogue has to be left out in the weather for a winter. We did have fun, though.Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-64483999434715625762016-01-15T09:17:00.000+00:002016-01-15T09:33:19.917+00:00A Little Bit of Displacement<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a bit of a tutorial on Displacement Maps - and yes, we've been here before. The reason I'm revisiting the subject is because </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have just posted the first of the free workshops (the ones that go with my new Long Diaries book) on www.d4daisy.com.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A detail of the piece is shown on the right and the trees are a printout of a computer design effect called a Displacement Maps. I've shown the technique in Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop Elements.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the top of this fabric I have laid a piece of kozo paper, which represents a maze and will eventually form the lower half of my new piece. Then I took a photograph and saved it in PSP. Let's call it Photo1. See right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am going to displace this image with another pressure stencil - one that turned out rather pale so I highlighted the trees with a pen. This was also photographed and saved in PSP. Photo 2. See right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With photo 1 and photo 2 open in the program (on the desktop) make sure you click on photo 1 as the active image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then go to the Effects menu, slide down to Distortion Effects and click on Displacement Map.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Make sure that the Intensity is set to 100 and that 'Stretch Map to Fit Image' is selected. You can play with all the other settings at a later date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you click OK, the map will take effect and your image will look something like the one below left. I </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">printed it and placed my paper on Stitch and Tear before machine embroidering the trees (see below right).</span><br />
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<br />Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-30424819511204110892015-12-30T17:46:00.000+00:002015-12-30T17:51:17.305+00:00Twiddly Couching - the Movie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I recently put a video up on my Facebook page and have since had lots of requests to put it on my blog for those who don't use Facebook. It's a bit smaller here than the FB version so, if you'd like to be my friend - that will be fine.<br />
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It's a how-to for the twiddly couching method that I used for the Treasure Keeper on the last page of my new book, Long Diaries and Tall Tales - see pic below<br />
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It is a really quick and easy way to cover a large area of background. I make the little keepers by cutting three pieces of Craft Vilene (which has had painted silk bonded to it) into triangles, making a pocket inside the front ones, at the lower edge and then inserting strands of wire, bent into a wiggly shape, like this, into the pocket.<br />
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Buttonhole round the edges and slip stitch them together before attaching your treasure. My treasure is a pair of beaded beads, given to me by my late friend, Val Campbell-Harding.<br />
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I will be putting some free classes - extensions on the book techniques- on the D4daisy Books site early in the New Year, so watch this space. <br />
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Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-59235332186272941562015-12-21T16:43:00.002+00:002015-12-21T16:44:13.056+00:00Pebeo Prisme - a New Idea<div class="MsoNormal">
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posting some of their results and it is great fun to see them all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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book as a header bar for one of my story panels but they are great for all
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book with a patterned surface of Prisme. This will be one of the first free
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you all for the great welcome back. The book has been printed (www.d4daisy.com) and I feel as though I can do other things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are really pleased with it and it has more pages than expected - the designer fell for Nina Humphreys' artwork and insisted we add a page or two. See right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the book, I do use the printer for some of the effects as I love the look and feel of paper and it is much stronger than you might imagine. Combining printouts with traditional drawing techniques is huge fun and I have several step-by-steps that feature this.</span><br />
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good. I do have valid reasons for the non-writing of the blog for much of this
year. There are so many excuses in fact, that I could offer you a bullet list! You have already heard some of them but I am determined to extract the maximum amount of sympathy so I'm listing them all! If
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been a dispiriting year for many small businesses;
beginning with the EU inspired digital VAT disaster. This was aimed at collecting
overseas VAT from mega businesses selling online but most of those have managed
to evade it while the smaller ones – such as one person selling knitting
patterns – was caught in a <span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">bureau</span>cratic nightmare that saw
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had no sooner got over that than the company that
organises our credit card facilities for WoW and D4daisy changed some ‘protocols’
involving costly and time consuming work. As a result of these requirements, we
took the opportunity to restructure Workshop on the Web and that took months of
‘deeds of variation’ and form filling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However it did involve both Fiona and Sam taking a more
in-depth role and that perked WoW up immensely. With a member-only blog and
Facebook page, we now have lots of extra content, with more workshops and
product reviews, kits for the workshops and lots of contact with members. We love
to see their work, which is classy stuff, as you can see from this pic by Mardi
Robson, based on a Lynda Monk workshop. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That was a popular kit, which included one of Lynda’s
silkscreens. We even have the odd video. All this has resulted in increased
subscriptions so WoW is safe once more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think everything is on an even keel again now but I have
felt as though much of this year has been spent tied to a desk or a telephone
and it was all rather depressing. In the end we have a better business model
and are more secure, so there is a silver lining.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">***I have been able to get in enough stitching to produce a
new book, due out shortly. It was supposed to be out in February/March but the
work was getting finished much more quickly than expected so we decided to make
a monumental effort and publish before Christmas. It’s at the printers so
should be around next week sometime. I have so enjoyed working on it as I have
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while ago. I had so much feedback that it prompted me to explore the theme
further in a book. It’s the story-telling that has really got me hooked and I have
been working on a theme of Myth and Legend. In addition to my own textiles, I have
included work by some of my friends and they have turned into characters in the
book. Here you can see a wonderful oil pastel work by my good friend Jane Wild. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This chap became the hero of a tale about a band of travellers,
seeking Peace Island to bring peace to the world. God knows that we need it
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He rather took over the story, which resulted in a
completely different direction to the one I had planned, but he did engineer a
happy ending. It was a good ending for me too as Jane has given him to me, so I
shall get him framed very soon. I intend to pursue this theme of fantasy
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As usual there are lots of techniques one of which involves
making pressure stencilled patterns on silk. I spoke about this in my last blog but have developed more ideas. Val Campbell-Harding and I did
this for a book once, but I’ve developed it further. The beginning is very
simple – you just paint a piece of silk and, while wet, place a plastic stencil
on top. As this was for a piece about a mythical wood, I used a Clarity stencil
tree design. Putting a weight over the stencil as it dries caused interesting
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and worked on it by changing the colours and highlighting different areas. Such fun
and I shall be putting ‘how I do it’ posts on here and the d4daisy books web
site when the book is out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have an exhibition coming up at Art Van Go in March and a ‘progress’ to
Scotland in April, there will be chances to show the work. I shall also be at
Craft4crafters in Exeter in February – a busy time ahead. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Christmas so I’m off to hit the shops. Tomorrow our unaccompanied singing group,
‘Local Vocals’, is performing at the local stately home so we will be feeling
very Christmassy after that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-6705965576361647782015-06-30T17:39:00.000+01:002015-06-30T17:48:17.535+01:00Myths, Magic and Muddle<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another long gap between blogs, mostly due to bureaucracy - hence the word muddle in the title. We decided that we should change the base of the Workshop on the Web partnership to recognise the role that Fiona (and not forgetting Sam) play. Same business - just a new name added. It involved the restructuring of practically every aspect of the business, including re-applying and being approved all over again for everything from the bank account to the taking of credit cards. It all went through OK, but they took a mighty long time to do it. It must be even harder for people with brand new businesses - at least we had a good track record. I shall spare you the unrelated saga about changing to a shopping cart system on our web page in order to offer kits. Thanks to the amazing Fiona Dix who hosts our site, we can now offer kits through WoW - our first accompanied my article on silk carrier rods (backed by metal shim). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well I think this is a record for the longest time between blogs. It has been a stupidly busy time. My Exhibition, '30 Tones of Grey', at the Craft4Crafters Show at Exeter in January went very well. Fiona, Sam and I had a lovely time and we received lots of lovely comments, met up with multiple WoWies (always a pleasure) and enjoyed the show, especially the West Country embroidery exhibition</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'30 Tones of Grey' will be shown again at Art Van Go studios in March 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since then, life has been a mad scramble getting the March issue of WoW out and setting up our members-only Facebook page - more on that later. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did find time to play truant and see the snowdrops at Kingston Lacy - our nearest National Trust house. I am so enjoying the long walks that my new knee now allows. Almost worth having the gammy leg in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My granddaughters have really caught the crochet bug and they are now far better at it than me. Such a lovely way to keep up with them as we have regular crochet and knit mornings. We are trying to teach their mothers to knit and that is coming along quite well. In fact, Fiona has shown great innovation and I will never view a scarf in quite the same way again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-73952527835282517382015-01-12T12:14:00.000+00:002015-01-12T12:14:07.211+00:00A Tribute to Jane Lemon<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
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last week and, in many ways, this feels like the end of an era. I am proud to
have had Jane Lemon as a friend and colleague and am very sad at this great
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secular field, has been huge. Her books on constructions such as boxes were immensely
popular – not many people know that Jane once made a box for the Queen. </span></div>
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only shows her talent but also her sense of humour. She gave me an image to use
in my ‘<i>Putting on the Glitz’</i> talk and
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from alms bags to very high profile altar frontals. St George’s Chapel, Windsor was one of their
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about her days as wardrobe mistress for the Saddlers Wells Theatre Ballet
Company and as a costume designer for television. This form of design gave her
the ‘eye’ to work on the scale and tone which produced such outstanding designs
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in 1962, Jane resigned from the BBC and became involved in the Women’s
Institute. Needless to say she soon began giving talks and leading
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for her books on embroidered boxes and metal thread embroidery. A
lecture tour of Australia and New Zealand confirmed her front-line status.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with Dr Sydney Evans who was looking for designers for Salisbury Cathedral and
the die was cast. The Sarum Group, led
by Jane, was formed in 1978 and the commissions kept coming. They included work
for churches and cathedrals not only throughout
the UK, but also in America. Their work is held by the cathedrals of St Albans (shown below), Exeter, Salisbury and
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wonderful time on Val Campbell-Harding’s Historical Heirlooms City and Gulids course
at Urchfont Manor in 2006. I think we were the worst students ever and caused
as much havoc as we could. However, we both admitted that we learned an awful
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of West Country Embroiderers for many years and took an active part in running
this lively group. The fact that she talked me into taking over this role two
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2011 Jane produced a series of panels for A<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">mnesty </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">International. The theme was Prisoners
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years, I have caught up with Jane at a group that meets at the Kingcombe Centre
in deepest Dorset. She has been a wonderful asset to this group (as she was to
the other groups that she attended) and was always ready with ideas and
suggestions. She was also inclined to give a prod if she thought you were
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Jane immensely but I think it is safe to say that she was a tour de force who
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another year over - and the deeper in debt phrase that follows on from that will certainly apply once the credit card bill for Christmas arrives! Only one present left to buy and most of the food is in so it could be worse. Feeling quite festive, I thought I'd find these two images of Karen Woods' Madonna and Child - now in the Guild Collection. Amazing use of the third dimension and great stitching. I had Karen's permission to use them in a talk so I'm sure she won't mind me giving them an airing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have probably heard about the ridiculous VAT fiasco whereby anyone who sells online services has to register for VAT payable to European Union countries, even if they are way below the threshold here. Lots of people have stopped selling - not just textile folks but anyone who sells yoga classes, self-help or beauty stuff. You have to be able to establish three different sources to show where your sales are coming from and many people are unable to do this. Luckily Workshop on the Web can do this but it is still a lot of work. If you come across any of the many petitions against this, please do sign.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But enough of the VAT mess. Positive thinking is needed and, speaking of Workshop on the Web, we are planning to liven it up no end in the New Year with video content and a return of the kits that were a popular feature some time ago. I'd also like us to have a closed Facebook page for WoW members only - I know some people don't like FB but it is hard to see how to do it any other way. Let me know what you think. Oh, and we have an amazing Hilary Beattie article in March which looks as though it is going to be about twenty pages long - always a generous girl, our Hilary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not going to be too sorry when Christmas is over as I can begin to get ready for my retrospective exhibition.<i> 30 Tones of Grey</i>. This will be part of the Craft4Crafters show in Exeter - January 29th to 31st. More details of the show here: www.craft4crafters.co.uk </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pic on the right is from my icon series and was the beginning of an exploration of metal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can't wait to get all my work out and I am aiming to have visiting artists to celebrate Workshop on the Web and d4daisy books. I think I might even show some of Val Campbell-Harding's work and also a piece by Julia Caprara - both much loved and missed artists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the show we shall have the impressive might of West Country Embroiderers on one side and the wonderful Adele Thomas on the other. We shall be doing loads of demos and hopefully passing samples between WCE and Adele for further decoration and stitching. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally I would like to thank everyone who took part in our book auction for the Teenage Cancer Trust. We raised over £1400 and I am just about to send a cheque to the Trust to continue their wonderful work. Thank you all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m sure you will all have heard about our
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Tuesday 9</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> at 12 noon GMT. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We do
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Lovely late entrant from this admired WoW tutor. This is a concertina book on the theme of travel, journeys and memories. Lovely little snippets of stitch, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A delicious book with a colourful stitched and embellished cover. Lots of colour inside, too, as you can see.</span><br />
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shapes applied to a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">zapped and distressed
background. The spine is formed from </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">zapped pipe-cleaners. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The interior of the book shows
lots of pages of small icons on a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">metal ground. Some </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the pages remain blank to
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room </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">remaining for your own designs.
The cover </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is beautifully stitched and
embellished with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">particular attention paid to the
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Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-12587933307305509142014-10-24T16:53:00.001+01:002014-10-24T16:53:38.196+01:0030 Tones of Grey<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvdz8cAavXjFzU2I6_KVyB7JcT9sbr47c4GNyfFQ-aIB0DN51DL0O824xObPjs-eMkfftYq34KbnWe6d_0CzRSKq0XAr4cwmQ3hOexlQ8OijZlPfEfOQeq09xAAZpYB2QQ30tLh_BFtBQ/s1600/cfc1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvdz8cAavXjFzU2I6_KVyB7JcT9sbr47c4GNyfFQ-aIB0DN51DL0O824xObPjs-eMkfftYq34KbnWe6d_0CzRSKq0XAr4cwmQ3hOexlQ8OijZlPfEfOQeq09xAAZpYB2QQ30tLh_BFtBQ/s1600/cfc1.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A<span style="color: black;"> great excitement - I have been offered a wonderfully large exhibition space at the Craft4Crafters show at the </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Westpoint
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shapes of Grey (thanks to Deb Jackson for the title) will be a retrospective, covering thirty years of stitching. I have managed to find some of my City and Guilds work (omg, am I really brave enough to show it?). </span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pics right and below show work from the last ten years - they all came out of the box marked 3D. Perhaps it should be called Fifty Shapes of Grey</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The little bag on the right is heavily stitched gold thread on net. At this stage I was fascinated by the movement that dense stitching could create - the vessel below has outer 'leaves' of machine stitched felt. Buttonhole stitching around the edge makes the leaves curl.</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Together with Sam Packer and Fiona Edwards, I will be doing lots of demos and promoting Workshop on the Web, of course. We are right next to the West Country Embroiderers stand (I am very honoured to be their president) and they give wonderful demos. Hopefully we can co-ordinate our fabric decoration and stitch so we can pass samples back and forth. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">I think, if I have room, I might bring the Brother Scan N Cut. I have a project that will probably still be on the go in January - more on that later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Yesterday my friend Jane Wild came round to play with the cutter. I wondered how she would use it as her art is very much centred on the figure. Here she is preparing her design - a wonderfully abstract lady .</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It turned out to be wonderfully Picasso-ish as the scanner omitted an eye and lost one of her boobs. We like her that way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jane left my house with a book to review - thus proving that there is no such thing as a free lunch. We had great fun and vowed to do it again, soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fantastic sketchbook below is from Paula Watkins and is a response to Workshop on the Web's support of the Teenage Cancer Trust. We are asking for sketchbooks or hand-made books to be donated so we can sell them online in aid of the Charity. We have some great ones already, from artists such as Cas Holmes and Anne Kelly. Details on <a href="http://www.workshopontheweb.com/">www.workshopontheweb.com</a>. More on this blog, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many thanks for all your good wishes to my new knee. It is doing well ans sends its love. All signed off from hospital and physio and I am able to go for wonderful walks. Still doing the exercises!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am also hoping that my folded landscape technique will become one of the free online lessons for those who have purchased the Cut, Shape, Stitch book. Watch this space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pic above is from one of the late, great Val Campbell Harding's sketch books, based on a design source of painted fairground ponies. I love the way she includes the original - a detail of a photo, then draws it and finally produces wonderful samples.</span><br />
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<br />Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-84128377876421416802014-07-23T12:25:00.003+01:002014-07-23T12:25:36.861+01:00The Big Day Off<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you remember my wood warrior race? I was playing with them on the Scan N Cut. I was puzzled as to how to mount them and in the end they ran away and hid among the leaves of my birch bark piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have also used the lion drawing for a Brother tutorial on the Scan N Sew - will let you know when and where it appears.</span><br />
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I<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> am really hooked on this Brother machine and am now pursuing the heads theme by looking at a series of carvings that we found in Scotland. Stirling castle was a very inspirational place and we spent a lovely day there last month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The heads, which were carved, were once brightly painted and they had fantastic head dresses. Don't know if you can see them in the pic below. I'm also fired up by the Green Man legends. I think they sprung from my wood warriors - their antecedents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The book on cutting is coming this week so, if you are on the 'let me know' list, we will soon be in touch. If not, you can go to www.d4daisy.com and join the list - no obligation to buy and you might win a prize. I can't wait to see it at last - it seems to have taken ages but really we did most of it in the last two months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am doing a talk on cutting at the Festival of Quilts. I am also giving a new talk on mixed media techniques, shown as videos as well as images. I foolishly called it 'Textiles, the Movie' but forgot they only put the title on the show booking forms so it wasn't clear what it was. So it didn't get many pre-bookings. If you are coming to the show, you might like to come and join me - everything from metal to Tyvek will be considered. It is on at 11am on Thursday 7th.</span><br />
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<br />Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-83899772665299477232014-06-27T12:31:00.001+01:002014-06-27T12:35:58.824+01:00Our Friends in the North<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I loved the carvings of ancient heads, known as the Stirling Heads. Took lots of photos and I can feel a theme developing. Below, you can see a reprint from a painting of the time, alongside one of the heads - apparently a courtier. The head is described as wearing costume for a masquerade - obviously it was 'boobs out, girls'. I am working on a sketchbook for the WoW Sketch-a-thon - watch this space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our last night was spent near the motorway at Stafford and we had planned some more sightseeing for that day. In the end though, the call of home was strong so we got up at 5am in order to avoid the Birmingham traffic. Home by 9.30. Deep Joy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I loved your comments - especially the ones on the cutters. I am still so in love with the whole process of cutting and hope to have lots of demos on our stand at the Festival of Quilts (NEC in August). I am also doing a couple of talks at the show. A word of warning - if you usually book your talks when you get there - and I know that lots of you do - be aware that the lecture spaces are much smaller than usual and are filling up fast, so you might want to book your seats. Always good for a sit down! http://www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/Content/Lectures/5_50/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of our talks is going to be a series of short movies, showing techniques, followed by images showing what to make with that technique. A bold and scary move that we may regret!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few comments I didn't get to answer:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carol, the Scan N Cut would be good with vector files from Illustrator but it works just as well with a hand-drawn scribble.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That filigree pattern sounds interesting, Jane. Can't wait to get on with more cutting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tricia, the book is called Cut, Shape Stitch (by me and Samantha Packer and Paula Watkins) and it should be out around the end of July. If you'd like us to let you know when it is here you can go to the d4daisy site and put your name on the list. No obligation and you might win a prize for being on the list. www.d4daisy.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the beginning of a fishy vessel using the Scan N Cut built-in shapes. the final one is in the book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will try to be a better blogger. I managed to get so behind with everything that I had to have a week of 5 am starts to get the book written.</span><br />
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as I have been rather frantically catching up with the wordy bit of the
forthcoming book on cutting techniques. There has been a lot of early morning
keyboard bashing </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one morning, I wrote two thousand words before breakfast. </span><br />
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Festival of Quilts in August and it is always good to have a new book on offer.
The book, Cut, Shape, Stitch is co-written with Sam Packer, features editor of
Workshop on the Web, and Paula Watkins </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> many of you will know her for her
wonderful mixed media work (and her stitching is pretty nifty, too). The book
is based on all kinds of cutting machines, from simple punches through basic
die cutters (these can be purchased quite cheaply second hand, I’ve discovered)
to computer and scanner-linked machines. I have to say that I love using the
cutters and for a long time had only two dies. I really got very hooked on the
shapes that remain after cutting and there is an entire book section on that. The pic below shows Sam using a die called Artful Dwellings by Sizzix. The little houses she has made are great </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> all finished now </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the pic below was a stage in their production.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have almost caught up now and yesterday we went to Michael
Wicks's for the photoshoot. It was a gloriously mad day – all three of us
rushing around with armfuls of work, painting, cutting and stitching for the
step-by-step photos and generally getting excited. I was hobbling rather than
rushing as my poorly knee was protesting. I am officially on the waiting list for a new
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Michael – he was very impressed. I must admit that I haven’t tried any of the
computer linked cutters (I’d welcome feedback from anyone who has one) but I am
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keep thinking about how much my late and still much missed friend, Val
Campbell-Harding, would have loved it. My preferred material is Craft Vilene,
which cuts very cleanly and Paula has introduced me to Derwent Coloursoft pencils, which she has used to beautiful effect
on the Vilene. I have also been amazed at how well the machine cuts metal. Apparently
it will cut wood veneers, too – the wood-working son-in-law pricked up his ears
when he heard that. DD: yes, the Vilene is an interfacing. It is thick, doesn't fray and is good to stitch into. I get through rolls of it,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These fish that I showed you last time are having a little shower of colour </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> then I shall 'do a Paula' and use the Coloursoft pencils. Excited about that.</span><br />
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Needlework Fiesta. I was demo-ing the simple hand punch machines so had lots of
material to use for the book, as well. Granddaughter Sophie took to this
demo-ing lark as though she had been doing it for years – stitching on water-soluble film, which can be tricky. Sadly, one of water-soluble bracelets in the
foreground of this pic disappeared soon after. One of my favourites, too. My
fault – I had it pinned down but unpinned it to show something and didn’t get
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was the fact that we had an accident in the car recently. We weren’t hurt at
all but the poor car was not so lucky and nor were all the people who were
waiting to hear a talk at the Woking Evening Branch of the Guild. We were less
than a mile away from the venue but you can hardly ask the guy loading you onto
the tow truck to hang on for an hour or so. The ladies were so nice about it
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are still waiting for the car. The repair shop ordered the parts two weeks ago
and they are still waiting for a battery lead to arrive. They have all been
great though and we have had a hire car and, now, a courtesy car from the
garage. The time spent on paperwork and the hours on the phone have all added
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from the photo thing, we were about to take an exit onto the M25 when the matrix
sign flashed up, ‘M25 long delays. Junction 4 to 31'!!! That’s most of the M25,
isn’t it? We came home a roundabout way and it took us an extra two hours! I
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It only came last week but I've had loads of fun already. I am making a piece of work called <i>The Butterflies' Revenge</i>. You may remember that I made a piece based on some poor butterflies that wound up as exhibits in a butterfly cabinet. Wouldn't see that now - it was a few centuries ago! Anyway, I have invented a mythology about the 'wood-warriors' (they were the nasty tribe who perpetrated the butterfly killings). You can see some of the drawings of the warriors and their lion leader in the pic below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, lots of work to be done - back soon with some finished stuff. I hope.</span>Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-66762830463033027682014-03-29T17:04:00.003+00:002014-03-29T17:04:47.454+00:00The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring and all that JazzWow, but it is lovely weather. Haven't had the central heating on properly for ages - just a quick blast in the morning and the log fire at night. Good stuff.<br />
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I went with my stitchy mates on a retreat to the Kingcombe Centrea week or so ago and finished lots of stuff for the cutting book - including all the centres for the garlands. <br />
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Since I have been home I have wrapped miles and miles of thread for the poles. It doesn't show much but I know it is there.<br />
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At the Kingcombe centre (which belongs to the Dorset Wildlife Trust) they have a cabinet containing a 19th century butterfly collection. I hate the idea of the poor things trapped in there (I know they're not really but you know what I mean) and think I might do a piece on 'Beauty Caged'. Quite excited and have borrowed a butterfly cutter from my granddaughter and made a start. Looked at the shapes of some of the exhibits..........<br />
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I have already confessed on Facebook that my time at Kingcombe had an ignominious end when, having been on a fairly strict diet and not had sugar for ages, I succumbed to the wonderful cream meringues at the final dinner and was ill all night. Entirely self inflicted! Clive had to come and rescue me. However my splitting headache turned out to be caffeine withdrawal and I was fine after a coffee. I don't drink a lot of coffee but do like it strong and black. Just shows what a powerful drug it is.<br />
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Just back from a great trip to Jersey, courtesy of the Harbour Gallery's Jersey Textile Showcase. I went over to judge some of the competitions and it was a very hard task as the standard was so high. Here are some of the winners - not great photos because of the reflection but you will see how high the standard was..<br />
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Naomi Renouf has written for Workshop on the Web in the past and her work is as good as ever. Endlessly fascinated by the landscape of her island, she still manages to produce something different every time.<br />
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Lisa Bloomer's work was a winner under the Mixed Media category. She screen prints most successfully on everything from silk paper to brown wrapping paper. I love this one which uses minimal stitch but makes that stitch such an important part.<br />
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Also - these lively dog studies - the one on silk paper was lovely, but I didn't get a close up - durrr.<br />
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This very interesting piece came from Victoria Goddard. When you look at the detail you will see why I chose her for the stitching award.<br />
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So many different techniques, skilfully applied so that each piece fitted and the overall effect was not 'bitty'.<br />
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After the Gala dinner - an excellent meal and luckily served in the hotel where I was staying as it was a very foggy night - a wonderful sunrise to greet. This was the view from my room.<br />
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Then it was off to judge the open competition in a local church. Some of the entries from schools were very good. This entry won the category for imaginative display. We done L'abbe school.<br />
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This one really captured the essence of the theme - Festivals - as it looked at the Rio carnival. I didn't catch the name of the school but will try to come back and correct that.<br />
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It was such a lovely couple of days and even the flights were fun. Going over, I sat in the midst of a netball team and they were lovely girls. We had a real laugh. Coming back I bonded over a take-off fruit pastille (it was hard on the ears) with a very glam lady who worked for the teenage cancer trust. She was so committed and told me all the great initiatives they had in progress. Especially building units in hospitals for young cancer patients to avoid them going in the children's ward. If you are looking for a good cause, that is certainly a winner. Must think what we could do on WoW. We had a book challenge once for the tsunami victims - perhaps a sketchbook challenge could work for us.<br />
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<br />Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-27206741448637000402014-02-15T17:43:00.000+00:002014-02-15T17:43:04.698+00:00Birch Blog Finished<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jnnUrlf0DKj-VDgrl6LFZS4SX2VvDDty64f5qdHFjWT9u_24PcBhLi5dLE0-DnJ-bPMDVUPwhAF0aS-C8_dvz1qJ1XxatcXnYduxbze3-MOiyUy9tMned6uTtx-wXqASmUmku6kqpo0/s1600/birchdone1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jnnUrlf0DKj-VDgrl6LFZS4SX2VvDDty64f5qdHFjWT9u_24PcBhLi5dLE0-DnJ-bPMDVUPwhAF0aS-C8_dvz1qJ1XxatcXnYduxbze3-MOiyUy9tMned6uTtx-wXqASmUmku6kqpo0/s1600/birchdone1.jpg" height="320" width="141" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Phew - just about got it finished today. Slaving over a hot needle last night while the wind howled and the rain lashed and the lights flickered. Smudge was sure it was our fault and he kept shouting at us to get it fixed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have hung the piece in the porch and, while I am quite pleased with it, I feel it is a little busy but, when I removed some leaves it looked too bare. So there will probably be some tinkering yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I may take out some of the leaves and add little trails of flowers - I happen to have just the thing. We will see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Details of the piece are shown below, from top to bottom. I do feel that blogging every day made me work on a project when I might otherwise not have done. On reflection, it would have probably been better to do it when I had a week clear of other matters an was not trying to put the finishing touches to March WoW and various urgent bits of business. Let me know what you think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-88885948647961396122014-02-14T17:16:00.002+00:002014-02-14T17:16:42.125+00:00Birch Blog Day 5<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, I haven't quite finished it. Yes, that was my intention, but life got in the way and it's been a day full of phone calls and NPW (non-productive work). There is also the fact that the wonderful lady who keeps our house clean came today. She has seven children and a life like a soap opera, so I can't bear to miss the latest instalment. She also never charges for chat time - even though she goes through the house like a human dynamo when we've had our chat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One other excuse is my feeling that I needed some bigger leaves as they were all a bit samey - an inevitable consequence of using the cutter. I made one a bit bigger by cutting the Vilene and leaving a gap behind the metal so that it formed a border in front - see below. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That was OK but I cut a few big leaves freehand just to help things along. They are painted and I am now waiting for Clive to light the fire (yes, that is sexist and yes, I can light fires, but he is better at it than me) so that they dry out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fibrenell - the varnish was called Plasti-coat Krystal Clear, I think he said that B&Q do it but any Plasti-coat stockist would have it. He said that it wasn't completely mat and it was best to build it in layers of light spray.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On tidy workrooms - I am with Wabbit as I too need the repetition of putting away to soothe me into getting going. Well, it is a good excuse. Adele - I am horrified at your tidiness. Cultivate chaos at once.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thank you for all the help in choosing the colour scheme and sorry Gill for toning it down a bit. I have made another piece using the leaf die and that is wildly colourful - I will show you tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span>Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-71173845558866453522014-02-13T17:14:00.002+00:002014-02-13T17:14:34.847+00:00Birch Thing Day4<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEmeqA84kkXxz04n5t0Ou3fVUYf7TT2miysHzd5HZfHUUsmG9stzJnunNGeJmlbickL-LredOqp8JYHvgk2gzJJ0NRRp5LY98uvfEXcFh8U8ITodgOmp4rEujfNoX5LMt0bP9nJJyfX7M/s1600/day4first.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEmeqA84kkXxz04n5t0Ou3fVUYf7TT2miysHzd5HZfHUUsmG9stzJnunNGeJmlbickL-LredOqp8JYHvgk2gzJJ0NRRp5LY98uvfEXcFh8U8ITodgOmp4rEujfNoX5LMt0bP9nJJyfX7M/s1600/day4first.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning was a little tedious as it was mostly taken up with wrapping several miles of thread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exciting variant here was adding a strand of wire to give 'bendability' when the leaves are suspended. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other time consuming operation was getting the hanging device to work. Clive is good at this but there was a lot of trial and error involved - his preferred option of mirror fittings were unsuitable on a bumpy surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eyelets took a long time to fix and then we made the top piece of wood all wonky. I hope you are absorbing all these technical terms. Eventually a metal eyelet at the top was agreed so I had to disguise it with yet more wrapped thread. The next task was to paint a few more coloured leaves in case it needed more contrast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally I gathered all my bits and fixed the wrapped wire to the front. An experiment in the form of a strip of organza with a pattern stitch and a fringed edging was added to the mix. You can see it in the front in the pic below. Some little flowers were made from punched shapes in case a frond or two was needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally - the story so far. Tomorrow will be a day of leaf making and probably more wrapping. I am still not convinced about the brighter colours but I think the metal and gesso ones look good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am afraid that Smudge has been very boring today It has been lovely and sunny (praise the Lord) so he lay on his back in the conservatory all day. He says he will try to be more Smudge-like tomorrow That's worrying.</span><br />
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Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-76657348151917491932014-02-12T17:09:00.000+00:002014-02-12T17:14:35.863+00:00Birch Blog Day 3<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many thanks for all your comments - I am enjoying them and I do read them all. Today was something of a consolidation day - putting in some solid work on the birch bark background and making more wrapped thread (more is still needed) and working some extra leaf experiments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It started with a visit to Phil,the woodworking son in law. Started early, took my daughter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much later, lighter in the purse but heavier in the boot, we returned to find the wood dry and looking good. So I stole the spray from the lovely WWSIL and was home in time for lunch, travelling through atrocious conditions - gale force winds and icy rain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">However, I wrapped some thread and then started some experiments on using the die-cutter on flimsy fabrics. I had previously tried this and failed but a new process was discovered, which worked really well. I am going to be mean and keep it under my hat for now as I am writing an article for Workshop on the Web on cutters, so you will see it then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I wanted some 'flimsy' leaves to contrast with the heavy Vilene and metal ones and this metallic organza is just the thing. It doesn't look very transparent in the photo but it is in real life. They look good with the leaves that I hand and machine stitched last night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So tomorrow will be a whole day of putting it together. Hopefully it will be well on the way to being finished before the weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Jane Lemon always says that you should leave your workroom clean and tidy to encourage you to make a start the next day. Hmmmn!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Maggie Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456190504524839834noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702511045911868975.post-16378299397249149132014-02-11T17:18:00.000+00:002014-02-11T17:18:01.559+00:00Birch Blog Day 2<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A big thank you to all who dropped in yesterday. The discussion on the best leaves moved between blog comments and Facebook - mixed social media?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today did not start well as two home truths were discovered quite early on: there was no food in the fridge and there were several urgent emails that needed attention. I also needed to look at the New Products for the March issue of WoW. It really was 'Wow' as Sam Packer, who tests all the WoW products, had been playing with her Gelli plate, using some interesting implements. Watching her demo at the Devon show had convinced me to get a Gelli but I shan't play with it yet. This is a sample of her gelling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time those issues had been addressed the morning was almost gone.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, as is often the case, a slow start can mean a fast catch up so I set to work just before lunch to produce reams of wrapped thread to join the pieces of wood together. This was a bit like a jigsaw puzzle and took our combined intellect and a quick lunch to sort out. Clive then drilled the holes, making sure they lined up. With great presence of mind I took a photo before he bore them off to the shed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lacing was far from easy and I need to make more wrapped yarn so that I can have some knots in dangling down the front of the work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I needed to get it all hanging together as I am off to visit the WWSIL (wood-working-son-in-law) tomorrow for some advice on whether to wax or varnish the wood. I shall have to take it to bits again to do that so it is quite loosely held together. I shall also seek advice on the hanging mechanism - mirror plates perhaps, as it is quite heavy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I spent some time dissolving some water soluble paper on a stamp, drying it and then sticking it onto the bark. the edges were dissolved so it looked like part of the surface. It looks OK - better than the photo above suggests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I tried some of the leaves - almost everyone liked the first and last pic (many thanks for that confirmation) so I combined the Vilene leaves with the metal ones - see below</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Looking good, I think and I just about managed to machine embroider two of the leaves which I shall paint tomorrow and see how they look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now I am shattered and find myself looking enviously at that cat, fast asleep on the bed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My cleaning lady thinks that I have trained Smudge to lie on his old dressing gown - she is well impressed. Never having had a cat she does not realise that they learn at their mother's fetlock (I'm sure cats don't have knees) to lay on anything placed on a bed - just in case it is a freshly washed and ironed shirt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Time to collapse in the chair and work some seeding stitch on the leaves. See you tomorrow.</span><br />
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