Silk bowl for pollen

Exhibition date getting closer, September 5th racing towards us. I have so much to do. I have made a list and gradually crossing items off, ha ha! One of them a bowl to contain wonderful pollen the bees have collected.

work in progress

Hoping to finish for the next exhibition in Bampton, Corinne

cards

Work for 'Underpinning' is just about complete so now I am putting fabrics together to cut up and stitch to make some cards

and now in colour

I started with experimenting with textures and patterns on the sandblaster, added crochet in linen  and mohair threads, all in ecru. But I do love colour and after the summer workshop where discussions included an very interesting one about our individual confidence in the use of colour in our work I decided to quit ecru and use the colours I'd gathered at the workshop. This has bought me to knitting and crocheting colours and textures together. I hope to create a range of lengths for the exhibition, now I am considering how I will display them at 44AD.

colours

 crochet detail

 my delightful assistant modelling a length

work for 44AD

       
                        and Linda has been seeing stars!
                      
                      while Liz is thinking about traces of making and changing
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The bee

The bee now has wings made of stainless steel!

The bees

It has taken me five hours to do one bee and it still hasn't any wings, ha!