STUDENT WORK
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Tuesday, 3 June 2014
Friday, 16 May 2014
Saskatchewan Stitches Conference in Two Weeks
It is only a few weeks away and I am really excited about the conference again this year.
I have been so busy with my bookkeeping business that I have had little opportunity to 'play' with the thread and cloth and paint that is in my tiny studio space.
A friend is coming with me this year so the eight hour drive will seem much shorter and we can catch up on gabbing while en route.
I am looking forward to renewing time with friends, teachers and students and looking forward to new students in my classes this year.
I have been knitting teensy items for friends and family who have been madly producing babies this year. These knitted things are tiny so keep my interest and use up bits of yarn that have been around for a while.
I knitted the wee hat and socks for Kaeley, daughter of a young man who has been like another member of our family and grew up next door to us. Can't believe he is a dad.
The bear was knitted from handspun yarn by a friend of mine from the Edmonton Weavers Guild.
The teensy sweater does fit on a card and is for the above noted wee princess.
I am busy now working on another embroidery project that will likely be another 10 year project.
I have been so busy with my bookkeeping business that I have had little opportunity to 'play' with the thread and cloth and paint that is in my tiny studio space.
A friend is coming with me this year so the eight hour drive will seem much shorter and we can catch up on gabbing while en route.
I am looking forward to renewing time with friends, teachers and students and looking forward to new students in my classes this year.
I have been knitting teensy items for friends and family who have been madly producing babies this year. These knitted things are tiny so keep my interest and use up bits of yarn that have been around for a while.
The bear was knitted from handspun yarn by a friend of mine from the Edmonton Weavers Guild.
The teensy sweater does fit on a card and is for the above noted wee princess.
I am busy now working on another embroidery project that will likely be another 10 year project.
Schwalm embroidery is a Germanic whitework of pulled and drawn threads. I found it in Anna magazine years ago the took a class at the Old Retreat that is sponsored each year by the Edmonton Needlecraft guild and Calgary Guild of NeedleArts. Won't that instructor laugh when she sees this on the go...I think the year I took this class was 1995 or so!
I am giggling about the UFO's that I am working away at now. It is fun to do new projects but delightful to go back to look at what I was interested in years ago.
I have added Marci Baker's blog to my blog list. Marci is an amazing quilt maker and business owner from Colorado. Marci's company is Alicia's Attic. Have a look at her website and blog. She has written and published a number of quilting books that you will want to have.
I am fortunate to see Marci in two weeks at the Saskatchewan Stitches conference. Have a look at that on the web as well. You might want to come to it next week. There are now about 250 participants over ten days. Tiny Humboldt Saskatchwan and St. Peters Monastery are over run with sewing enthusiasts for that time.
I think they love us.
Saturday, 12 April 2014
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Saturday, 5 April 2014
The Art of Whimisical Lettering - Joanne Sharpe
FROM CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
published by Interweave.com
Go to Interweave.com to sign up for all sorts of interesting newsletters CPS as well as Quilting Arts, Beading Today and others.
This is a great resource for my class at Saskatchewan Stitches Conference this spring
TXT LETTERING ON FABRIC
1. Play around with your own handwriting, creating words and entire alphabets with all the pens or markers on your desk.
2. Write several pages of words and alphabets in many styles of letters, upper- and lowercase, large, small, tall, wide, skinny, and fat. Don't judge, just write pages and pages, sampling your letter flow and creativity.
3. Doodle letters with colored markers. Add colorful patterns, swirls, stripes, lines, and dots to embellish the letters.
4. Look through old magazines and other printed materials to find words and phrases in assorted typefaces and sizes that you find interesting. Cut them out and paste them in your journal. Become a pasting pack rat with anything that you hand letter and make sure it ends up in your journal.
5. Using assorted markers, color in layers and add words on top of each layer.
6. Collect brochures or magaz ine clippings with interesting letter placement and unusual compositions and layouts of text to inspire new ideas and direction for your lettering projects.
7. Do an Internet search for topics relative to lettering, such as lettering, fonts, typeface, handwriting, letters, alphabets, calligraphy, etc. Use your colorful pens and markers to jot down notes and inspirations in your journal as you come across ideas that "speak" to you. ~JS
published by Interweave.com
Go to Interweave.com to sign up for all sorts of interesting newsletters CPS as well as Quilting Arts, Beading Today and others.
This is a great resource for my class at Saskatchewan Stitches Conference this spring
TXT LETTERING ON FABRIC
7 Tips for Art Journaling
Handwriting
by Joanne Sharpe
by Joanne Sharpe
1. Play around with your own handwriting, creating words and entire alphabets with all the pens or markers on your desk.
2. Write several pages of words and alphabets in many styles of letters, upper- and lowercase, large, small, tall, wide, skinny, and fat. Don't judge, just write pages and pages, sampling your letter flow and creativity.
3. Doodle letters with colored markers. Add colorful patterns, swirls, stripes, lines, and dots to embellish the letters.
4. Look through old magazines and other printed materials to find words and phrases in assorted typefaces and sizes that you find interesting. Cut them out and paste them in your journal. Become a pasting pack rat with anything that you hand letter and make sure it ends up in your journal.
5. Using assorted markers, color in layers and add words on top of each layer.
6. Collect brochures or magaz ine clippings with interesting letter placement and unusual compositions and layouts of text to inspire new ideas and direction for your lettering projects.
7. Do an Internet search for topics relative to lettering, such as lettering, fonts, typeface, handwriting, letters, alphabets, calligraphy, etc. Use your colorful pens and markers to jot down notes and inspirations in your journal as you come across ideas that "speak" to you. ~JS
Which one of these tips speaks to you the
most? Do you have a lettering tip to share? Personally, I like to experiment
with different sizes of pen tips. Fine tips are great for details, but wider
tips seem to let me write more loosely. If you
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Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Saskatchewan Stitches Conference Samples
"TXT LETTERING ON FABRIC"
Paint and Brush
Pen on Canvas
A to Z Illuminated Letters
Parallel Pen and Irridescence
These are some of the techniques, pens and brushes that will be presented in the TXT LETTERING class at the Saskatchewan Stitches Conference in May/June.
Register at Hausofstitches.ca
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Sunday, 27 October 2013
THE TEN YEAR PROJECT
Some years ago the Edmonton Needlecraft Guild along with the Greek Kyklos dancers invited Joan Petrakis to Edmonton to teach an emboidery class. A number of members of the ENG took this class...but not me. Why was that? Well I was likely up to my eyeballs in little kids and with husband working out of town most of the time there was little time for fitting in a weekend class and no one to babysit small people.
I have been enjoying the company of a group of friends from the ENG for many years. The Greek gal had this lovely finished piece on her table at one visit and I complained that I didn't know why I hadn't taken that class. I loved this piece. One of the other gals in this group came the following week and flung a package at me saying ' here you are...enjoy'. It was the kit from the Joan Petrakis class. Grace had added it to her UFO box and never intended to finish the piece.
Well with that in hand I really had to hop to it. Well I must have hopped around the world a few dozen times by now. Grace gave me this kit at least 6 years ago and I have faithfully taken it to the Wednesday stitching group to work on it over all of those years. And I am finally finished.
Joan Petrakis taught this class in about 1983 - at least that is what the copywrite on her notes say.. By the way these are notes typed on probably an IBM Selectric typewriter with hand drawn illustrations. Anyone remember that. This was done long before the iPad and iPod and Adobe Illustrator and Embroidery design software and likely long before any of you even owned a computer. I have to tell you that my family did own a computer in 1983. It was a 'portable' weighing in at about 20 pounds (remember those) with a screen about 5 X 5 inches (remember those).
We've come a long way baby! Here are photos of the embroidery and of Joan's notes for this class.
Enjoy a wee bit of nostalgia...and No Grace I am not giving you this embroidery back. You can come to my home any time to enjoy it here. Thanks a mil for your generosity!
I have been enjoying the company of a group of friends from the ENG for many years. The Greek gal had this lovely finished piece on her table at one visit and I complained that I didn't know why I hadn't taken that class. I loved this piece. One of the other gals in this group came the following week and flung a package at me saying ' here you are...enjoy'. It was the kit from the Joan Petrakis class. Grace had added it to her UFO box and never intended to finish the piece.
Well with that in hand I really had to hop to it. Well I must have hopped around the world a few dozen times by now. Grace gave me this kit at least 6 years ago and I have faithfully taken it to the Wednesday stitching group to work on it over all of those years. And I am finally finished.
Joan Petrakis taught this class in about 1983 - at least that is what the copywrite on her notes say.. By the way these are notes typed on probably an IBM Selectric typewriter with hand drawn illustrations. Anyone remember that. This was done long before the iPad and iPod and Adobe Illustrator and Embroidery design software and likely long before any of you even owned a computer. I have to tell you that my family did own a computer in 1983. It was a 'portable' weighing in at about 20 pounds (remember those) with a screen about 5 X 5 inches (remember those).
We've come a long way baby! Here are photos of the embroidery and of Joan's notes for this class.
Enjoy a wee bit of nostalgia...and No Grace I am not giving you this embroidery back. You can come to my home any time to enjoy it here. Thanks a mil for your generosity!
Design From Western Macedonia, Greece
Joan Petrakis
1983
Stitched by Jackie Van Fossen
Completed in 2013
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