Jul 7, 2007

Coming back home

This is my new piece, it's about 12"x13" (30x33cm).

This lady is coming home with the morning star... who knows why... perhaps she comes back from her friend but she could also have worked all night. So different interpretations and I keep thinking about each of them. The sun is up, the birds sing, the morning star is still there.

I did the background with silk paint on polyfelt. I loved the result. The paint gathers on the borders and it dries nicely.

I used some beads I bought on my visit to Traunstein in Germany at the shop of one very interesting felt artist, Barbara Huber. The name of the shop is "Unikat" but I couldn't find a web address...

Gaby Tisch
, a German textile artist, who makes the most beautiful dyed fabric and threads, was in my workshop and we tried to combine dyed fabric and embellisher. This piece is a result of this.










One more marvel from Jude

Sometimes I find things in the web that make my heart sing. This is one of them. Done by Jude, the most inventive artist I know!

Jun 13, 2007

Working with the Embellisher Workshop



I want to announce in my English blog too that I'm having a workshop with the embellisher from the 24th to the 26th of August 2007.

It is meant for 2-4 participants because we want to have lots of time and space for working and trying the possibilities of this machine.

The price of the workshop with B&B included in an separate apartment in our house near to the studio with a common bad and toilette for the participants is 200€. I have 2 double rooms and one single room. With single room the price is 220€.

100€ are to be payed with Paypal or EU-money order when you receive the confirmation of participation.

If you cancel thirty days or more before the beginning of a class, you will receive a refund minus a 10€ cancellation fee. If you cancel later than thirty days till one week before the beginning of the class, you will receive a refund of 50€ minus a 10€ cancellation fee. If you cancel a week or less before the beginning of the class there is no refund. You can use the amount you payed without any deduction if you inscribe for another future class - this can only be made once.

Participants can be fetched from and brought again to the railway station St. Pölten for the cost of the diesel fuel.

If it is necessary for us to cancel a class, students will be notified and offered another class or a full refund.

I'd like to get to know some faces behind the computer screens!!

I'm having holidays from the 15th June to the 1st July. After the 15th I'm only going to be able to answer your applications if I find an internet café, if not you will receive an answer after the 1st of July.

The place is booked after receiving the payment if you already received the confirmation of participation.

You can be put under waiting list.

If you want a prolongation of the workshop and work on the studio as "embellisher holiday" the fee will be 50€/day of prolongation. You can stay as much as a week altogether. This is specially meant for participants who live abroad!

Jun 12, 2007

Holidays

I'm having holidays from the 15th June to the 1st July 2007.

I don't have a notebook so that I can't go into the internet in this period.

Now I have two more days to prepare things.

I will miss you all!! :-)

Jun 11, 2007

Collab with Cecilia Levy

Here are the pictures of this collaboration for "The Library":


















Cecilia did the wood drawings and I wanted to put more fabric into the book this time, so that I gave him a textile wood surface and some ants..

Jun 10, 2007

First workshop at my studio!

Today was the last day of the weekend workshop at my studio.

We had great fun with the embellisher! The three ladies had never worked with the machine before (one of them even opened the package with her new machine at the studio!)

This one was done by the lady who only tried the embellisher once at home:



This one was done by the lady who doesn't have an embellisher and used mine:





...and this one was done by the lady who unpacked the brand new machine at the studio!:



They did great job and I could even finish a piece I did demonstrating the possibilities of the embellisher. It is about 20"x15".




I must say that all three ladies do great art quilts too! now they have found a new way to put their ideas into fabric (and wool! :-))!

Jun 8, 2007

Yo-yo tutorial

You find a wonderful Yo-yo tutorial with the Clover tool at Lazy Girl Designs

You can even download it as a PDF-file!

Thank you, Lazy Girl (you are not THAT lazy!! :-))

You can use it to do my barnacle throw.