Another interesting date!

 Someone pointed out to me that today is 11/2/22 - I will have to post! But I am really waiting for 22/2/22 - hope I don't lose track of the days!!

So, what to post about? 

I haven't done anymore small embroideries, seem to have run out of oomph. I am working on a small tapestry, based on a photo of a local park. The theme is Sense of Place. If the tapestry works, it will be a good reminder of the park. It is Heidelberg Rd, over Darebin Creek. (That was a lot of bother to type - it kept trying to auto-correct to Darwin!)

I am not going to post a picture of the tapestry yet, just in case I decide to put it in for the Petite Textiles exhibition at Wangaratta. I think they don't like you to post images beforehand. Not that it is finished and I probably won't go in the exhibition, but you never know. 

Here is a picture of the park though. I am weaving it at about 20cm wide by 10cm high. That's the plan, not sure how it will turn out, I'm not very good at following my cartoons properly and end up winging it a bit. 

I played with it a bit in PhotoShop. It is a bit harder to do than I had anticipated because I am trying for a rather large landscape image in such a small format. But I will persevere. I am doing it with seine twine 12/6 and 3 strands of ATW wool, much smaller than I usually do. 

The water isn't supposed to look like that!

For one of our exercises, we have to do a drawing, using line, that is in three parts, horizontally. Air, water and land. I have been struggling with this for a week now but had an inspiration late one night - these late night inspirations don't always turn out so wonderfully in the light of day but I thought I would persevere anyway.

I remembered that I had used my photo of the cliff in Darebin Parklands as inspiration for a tapestry, then as a black line drawing using patterns.

So I thought I would go back and take another picture. My original photo is quite purple and I haven't seen those colours for a couple of years. This photo has not been touched up, it really came out looking like that.

It is much browner now. I am not sure if it is because of the time of year, different weather or the clean-up of the creek that has been done in the meantime. It is not nearly so colourful now but it is still interesting.

I took Penny for a walk today and we ended up in the same park - it is wonderfully local, off-lead in places and very peaceful - usually. Today there were trail bikers there, they are not supposed to be there and they were very noisy.

The creek was a peculiar colour too! Whatever was in the water was making its way down the waterway. It didn't smell but it certainly looked bad.

So, being a good citizen, I rang the number and reported it. When the phone was answered, the person on the other end said "You're reporting Darebin Creek?" I think they must have had quite a few calls, very few people go out without their phones these days!