Mixed Media/Fibre Art, Kansas Sunset – Waiting for a Breeze © Diane Duncan 2014
My roots in sewing and stitching are never far below the surface, in fact, I’ve become like one of those aerial plants with my roots exposed! Although I work in a number of media – I like variety and one media informs another – I always return to fibre!
A Collage of the Painted Fabric – (Later Incorporated as a layer in ‘paper cloth’) Just did the heat set and thought I would publish the results. The Fabric Before Painting I’m going to challenge myself to use each of the pieces someway over the next few days. I’m doing a series of small and ‘quicks’ so it may work out okay. Thought I would throw in a shot of this morning’s sunrise.
read moreI do have a lot of activities on the go – I just haven’t blogged about them. There is a smocked dress, a pair of socks, samples of free motion quilting based on Leah Day’s work, a challenge piece posted to Dale Anne Potter’s facebook fan page ….. All this and now I have my days to myself so there will be lots more. Let’s hope the weather continues to be fair! The combines will run!!!! A little personal update to explain that last comment. My husband, a born farmer from the east, found himself a job...
read moreCheck out the link to Quiltersmuse.com for a posting re one of my quilts with ‘words’ or writing on it (August 28th posting). I have been catching up on past postings on the quiltart digest and noticed a call for ideas about how people use words on their work and thought of this piece ‘2008 Revisited: Retirement Angst’. It hasn’t been posted anywhere yet and this is just a teaser shot as I would like to exhibit it somewhere before I post the full piece. In this piece I used both free motion stitching...
read moreAs a follow-up to all the postings on Dale Ann Potter’s FB page about her dream of traveling by RV and teaching as she goes, I decided not to delay any longer with this posting. It’s been planned for a while but I thought I should wait until everything was tidy! This may be a bit of a ramble and I’ll try to group info but here goes! My Mobile Studio We have been traveling full-time in our motor home since January 2009 and one of the conditions was that I would not have to stop working on my artwork, including fibre art. ...
read moreOver the weekend I continued to work on samples until I ran out of suitable fabric – plain enough for the stitching to show but not totally plain. My machine was cantankerous, making new noises and not making perfect stitches so I was glad that I had booked a visit to the service man Gil at Rumpled Quilt Skins in Okotoks. Not next door but this store comes highly recommended by a friend back in Ottawa. What a banquet of quilts to view and fabric, books and tools to explore! They really had some pieces that got me anxious to get my...
read moreI’m finally back at my sewing machine. Thanks to surgery and physiotherapy, the wrist is working fairly well, although my coordination is not what I’d like it to be. So I designed my own therapy to work on that! I started about a month ago when I tackled a task I had talked about for two years – documenting the built-in embroidery stitches on my sewing machine. Somehow the computer images just don’t tell the whole story. Forty two six-inch squares later I have a reference file of the actual size and scale of each...
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