First woven wall hanging underway

Weaving, Printing and more..

A sample of  ‘Summer and Winter’ Weave using a cotton and merino wool blend:

The reverse pattern shows on the back hence the name Summer and Winter.

I have been experimenting with monoprinting:

Collagraph printing:

And solar plate relief printing:

Also bookbinding –trying a new style:

And baking new recipes. A healthy bread recipe from a new acquaintance Sue Kerr:

This one I put walnuts in

And finally playing with paper just for fun:

Experimenting with some old children’s books.

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Collage

Collage on board. 

(Just to see if I can post from the 'blogger' ipad app). 

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Weaving

‘Monk’s Belt ‘ Design cushion cover.

Must take some more photos.

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Member’s Exhibition at Hutt Art Centre

I have 3 pieces in the Member’s Exhibition at the Odlin Gallery in Lower Hutt:

Two Scarves both 100 % Alpaca – beautifully soft.

And another woven piece made from a cotton warp , a linen paper weft and book text weft, mounted on handmade paper.

The piece is called “Imagination Wander” - the idea being that you flick through the text and make up your own story.

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Update

This is some of what has been keeping me busy over the last couple of months:

Doug made a fringe twister for me to make it easy to finish weaving ends.

From this:

To this: a throw made with alpaca warp and variegated alpaca weft, so soft.

I have fallen in love with alpaca as it weaves beautifully and is so soft. This is the next project on my four shaft loom at the moment:

I have also been busy making solar plates and have been cutting up the resulting intaglio prints to make collages for an upcoming exhibition.

and with these I am aiming for a ‘tile’ idea and I have coated the collaged prints with a high gloss resin.

I have been experimenting with altered book art:

And when I am relaxing I have started knitting socks using variegated yarn . It’s so much fun as the colours keep changing. This is the first sock of a second pair I am making.

Cheers

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Books

At the weekend hubby made me a print drying rack so I tested it and made a quick reduction woodcut using my book press:

I have also kicked off the year and made a couple of  bound journals (sewn on tapes) with a decorative Japanese tape spine and Washi end papers:

The lighter coloured journal has a slightly rounded spine and the red journal has a flat spine. The inner pages are a mixture of lined and blank papers.

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Trip to Wellington Zoo- Firefox

Phoebe and I went to a Red Panda Encounter today at Wellington Zoo. The Keeper took us into their enclosure and we fed ‘Reeka’ and ‘Jay’ pears and grapes. So soft. They are natives of China and are found up high in the Himalayas. Also they are known as the ‘Firefox’ and are the symbol for the browsers we know so well!

This is Reeka and Jay’s son who wasn’t keen to join us and stayed up in the trees:

A lovely day for the end of the school holidays.

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After a long delay–first post of 2013

I can’t believe I haven’t blogged since last October!

Here is a brief catch up:

Exhibition – ‘Impressions 2’ at the Hutt Art Centre.

Some of my solar plate etchings (the one on the right sold).

Daughter 3 is 14!

Christmas Day in Wellington ( hottest day since 1934!)

Holiday in the Coromandel:

Kids go back to school in a week or so , then can start printing (and weaving) again.

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October

Maggie broke her cruciate ligaments in her leg and is on the slow road to recovery .

The latest weaving project is underway.

I have had the use of a press for a week at home and have been making lots of prints…

A small sample

Getting ready for the Hutt Art Centre’ s printermaker’s exhibition at the end of November.

Tools of the trade.

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7 Trigs, 7 Days Day 7

Sunday. Top of  Wright’s Hill Road in Karori. Still windy but the sun is out. Yay.

Looking out over Wellington City.

The heights of the trigs from this week ( from NZ Lands and Survey Dept)

Monday – Piwakawaka Track  (Kaiwharawhara Hill No2 )  241 m

Tuesday – Newlands 266m

Wednesday- Johnston Hill 359m

Thursday – Mt Kaukau 445m

Friday – Tinakori Hill 303m

Saturday – Mt Albert 178m

Sunday – Wright’s Hill 355m

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7 Trigs, 7 Days Day 6

Saturday. Gale force winds and rain. But I still made it up to the top of Mt Albert behind the National Hockey Stadium in Newtown.

I had my parents’ dog too.

Looking north towards the city:

And an extra trig we passed on the way back to watch hockey. Looking south-east over towards Wellington Airport.

I hope the weather improves soon!

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