Kate Derum and Irene Davies Tapestry weaving award.

 I attended the announcement of the winners of the Kate Derum and Irene Davies tapestry weaving awards tonight at the Australian Tapestry Workshop. 

I am going to have to go again to have a really good look at all the pieces. There was a good crowd and I knew some of them, so we had a good chat. I also met some new (to me) weavers and had some lovely conversations. 

As you can see, it was hard to view all the tapestries and they deserve a better look 

Fortunately, the exhibition is on till mid-October. 

Here is a link: https://www.facebook.com/stories/101683088633828/UzpfSVNDOjQwMDM5MjgzOTY1NTAzMTc=/?bucket_count=9&source=story_tray

Displaying the tapestry

 As we have the travelling tapestry exhibition up at the HWSG, I took along two of the tapestries from the Australian Sheep and Wool show to add to the display. 

When I got there I saw that others from the guild had won prizes in various categories also. So now there is a lovely bright display. 

Thanks to Glenora Weaving and Dyeing to Weave, I have two new lots of warp and weft!! I'll have to think about what to do next. 

The theme for next year is Where the Road Leads Us but that is a year away. Still, I can have it in my mind and let the subconscious do its thing.

Our travelling tapestry theme for next year is The Secret Garden. Also a fair way away, although we need to have them finished by February, so not quite as long. 

As I have done a piece in the past, for the EGV exhibition, I have some ideas somewhere - I do have them in a folder, now to find the folder. The piece that I did for the embroidery exhibition wasn't any good, so if I use it, I'll have to adapt the image a lot! Still, it is something to be thinking about. 

Of course, I still have to come up with some ideas for the upcoming exhibition in October - Making Waves. I have done two small pieces but don't love them. so am hoping to come up with a new idea. 

This one is done by hand, no machine embroidery at all. 

More my usual thing, small fabric collage with free motion machine stitch. 

Tapestry Weaving

 I haven't had the chance to get to the Bendigo wool show (actually called the Australian Sheep and Wool Show), it is only on for three days!! So much work and only three days of events. 

Anyway, I am hoping to get there on Sunday but may not -things are hectic at home. And the weather is rather uninspiring if you aren't going skiing. It is windy and cold!! 

However,  I was pleased to get a message from a friend who visited today - I have won first prize in the tapestry category of the Woolcraft section. There were only three entries but I am still chuffed to have won. The other two entries were from people from our tapestry weaving group that meets at the Handweavers and Spinners Guild in Melbourne. So we have done ourselves proud!!

We are hoping to make the category more popular in the coming years. So far, it is mainly our small group of tapestry weavers in Melbourne. 

We are hoping that more people will take the chance to do some tapestry weaving and participate next year. 

I visited the guild today to put up the display of the travelling tapestries - it is an online group that puts out a theme each year (this year was Between the Lines) and then people send in their entries. They are then displayed across the county. It is our turn to have them in Melbourne. 

We will put up our tapestries from the Bendigo show when they return. It will give us a few more tapestry weavings to show. - with certificate and ribbons!!

It is great to have these shows, they give us inspiration to actually weave. 

30/6/24 the end of the financial year!

 We have been inundated with EOFY sales lately - some are being extended into the new financial year - lucky us.

As I wrote the date this morning, in my morning journal, I noticed that 30 - 6 = 24. I think it is the first subtraction I have done with dates - how exciting!!

Anyway, since it is such an interesting day, I thought I had better post. 

I have a photo from a week or so ago. It was a cold and foggy morning and I saw a lovely spider web. 

Winter is upon us - I did read that it is the driest start to winter we have had here for a few years (they quoted as far back as 2017! (I think I must be getting old - that doesn't actually seem that far back!)

But we had snowfall in the mountains, so people will be happy if they have gone to ski in the school holidays. 

I went away for a few days last week and walked my favourite trail - the Aqueduct trail above Warburton. I saw this amazing fungus growing on a fallen tree. 

I have managed to do a little bit more on my Making Waves piece - all hand embroidery, so I am being rather slow. It doesn't look all that different but I'll post anyway. 

Still June - 24/6/24

 Well, I have been trying to get motivated and have something on the go - it may be a total failure but at least I am doing something.

I have gone away for a few days in the hopes of actually sewing rather than fiddling around the place thinking of things I 'should' be doing. 

The EGV is having its annual members exhibition later this year - later than usual, October. The theme is Making Waves, There are so many ideas I have had. I decided not to do waves breaking on the beach - now I am doing exactly that!! But they are not big waves, my idea is based on the moon causing tides, so I have a seascape based on that. 

So far it is rather rough and ready. And ... I am doing it all by hand!! Not my usual thing at all. 

I have used scraps of fabric I had saved from other projects - never throw anything away - which is all fine and good until you realise you have collected a lot of stuff and, one day, someone may have to deal with it. Hopefully, that someone will be me doing a clean-out but it is getting to the stage where some serious destashing 'should' happen, 

Here is the WIP. I may decide I hate it but that is for a later day's decision.

In other news, I have been accepted for the Kate Derrum Award exhibition at the Australian Tapestry Workshop. It opens in July. Here is a list of the entrants who were accepted. I know a lot of the names, some online ones and some personally. Looking forward to the opening night!!

My piece is Labyrinth. It is a finger labyrinth but I doubt that anyone will be allowed to handle it at the exhibition! 

This piece was done a few months ago so my focus in now on the embroidery. 

Had to post today - due to the date.

 It is 4/6/24. (4x6=24, in case you wondered.)

Must do a post today, even though there is nothing much to say.

I was at the Embroiderers Guild today. The ATAA exhibition is down and gone! 

There is now a display of works done by the front room, library and gallery volunteers. I am one of them so have put in a piece. There are not a lot of piece, I suspect some volunteers did not bring in their work. But the ones that are there are lovely. (Surely we have more volunteers than that!!)

I am trying to come up with an embroidery for the upcoming EGV members' exhibition. The theme is Making Waves, which gives me so many ideas - not just waves in the ocean, or water, but sound waves, light waves, gravity from the moon causing tides, people causing trouble (a matter of opinion if it is really trouble), etc. Then, if I do come up with an image, I have to decide what technique to try!! It is making me think but not DO!!

May is nearly over!!

I was just having a look at my blog - haven't visited it for almost a month!! 

I haven't been feeling very creative so haven't had a lot to post - but ...

I attended the  opening of the Alcove Shop's winter exhibition last night - it is on for a few weeks. I have been the artist of the month and still have several pieces in the shop. I also found a couple of parasols I had fun with a few years ago (I just looked up how long ago - quite a while!). The theme for the current exhibition was Bizzarre, so I thought they might fit. 

I have also been helping out with the ATAA textile award exhibition at the EGV building. It is on till next Sunday. So I have been with some creative people and am hoping that some of their creativity will rub off on me!

The EGV annual exhibition is on in October, the theme is Making Waves. I have had lots of thoughts about how that could be interpreted but then I have to work out which idea appeals most and then what technique would work best for me. So still thinking, not doing.