12/2/24 interesting date.

 Just noticed the date today, I had to record it for something or other and thought I 'should'  post. 

It is hot today, we are having a short run of hot days and nights - not unusual for summer but we have been lucky this year (in Melbourne, unlike most of the rest of the country) and have not had many hot days, so it feels like a bit of a shock. 

It is hard to get going in this weather, especially when I am between projects. I have an idea for a tapestry - the theme is Fire and Ice. I'm not sure what I will end up doing but I am playing around with some ideas from the erupting volcano in Iceland.

I am intending to do an abstract one, I think. I even got out the watercolour pencils and tried to draw my own image, not something I normally do. I am missing having Photoshop on my computer and I use it so rarely that I am not prepared to pay the monthly fee to download it. One of the reasons I use it much more rarely is, of course, that I don't have it. But that doesn't convince me to pay a monthly fee, 

I am also trying to do the daily collage challenge for February (@februllage). It is becoming quite a big challenge, to do one each day, according to a different theme each day. 

A recent one was Tangled and I had the perfect thing - some leftover threads from my sewing. I actually have a lot of them as I have this vague idea that I may one day do another thread bowl. 

Now to attempt the next one: Remember. 

                                                                                                                

Demonstration piece

As I mentioned earlier, I was demonstrating at the guild today.
I thought I would combine two recent ideas: the thread bowl and the silk paper.

This is the thread bowl on the soluble fabric, I don't seem to have a photo of it put together. 

I copied the template for the thread bowl onto some soluble fabric and laid it over a piece of silk paper that I had. It just fit.

I finished the sewing while demonstrating - and talking a lot with the many visitors.

After I got home, I cut it out around the edges, put it in water and dissolved the soluble fabric. It provided some extra stiffness to the bowl.

The template depends on the edge of one section being sewn to the edge of the next piece. So I cut out the piece of silk paper that would have stopped it meeting properly and now I have another bowl.
The silk paper shines beautifully in the light

I seem to do a lot of my work at night. I will ry to take a photo during daylight and see how that looks. But I am happy with the result so far.