making waves...for C-art

where does the time go? sorry I haven't been here much, just had so much to do to get ready for C-art, strange how in a year my studio has filled up with so much stuff! Thank goodness for the beautiful clean new loft space above and a loft ladder...husband of great patience I salute you!It felt like moving house, but now we have room for 3 artists and room for lovely visitors...

The New Bookshop in Cockermouth is kindly hosting a C-artists window display...so thought I'd better rustle up something new...been feeling sea-ish since my return from Mull...

here's a run through of the 'how to create a wave' process...choose delicious fabrics, snip them up and lay them on a backing of old blue blanket, needle felt with my fab machine, then get free machine stitching with more stunning blues...now the tricky bit, turn into a tube, stitch up by hand...luckily it just fits on my machine so I can stitch over the joins to blend them in and afterwards the fun part adding a lacey wavy top using dissolvable fabric...

I do like a technical and artistic challenge...and actually I am pretty chuffed...it worked! 

By the way I am having a few issues leaving comments on your blogs since I changed my blog name, apologies, I do visit and love your blogs, I will try and sort it out..any ideas please let me know!

Havea great week, back with some C-arty pics I hope, have a great week Emmaxx

sea inspiration

journeying to the Isle of Lewis, across the land and across the sea, with shifting restless waves and colours changing as the light alters... with far off misty mysterious islands...seabirds swooping through the sky and diving expertly into the sea... the magic of dolphins sinuously swimming so close we could almost touch them as they came leaping fluidly through the waves...it is another world, another place...
I have returnd to my own landlocked home with a head full of notions and ideas and feelings about textile makingness, with a need to create art... my lovely knitting turned out not to want to be anything as lowly as a garment, more artwork as the beautiful yarn became a sea inspired delicate net of waves....