tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21522125342146922602024-03-13T15:45:26.046+11:00Transient TracyA place of dyeing, sculpting, textile art and the occasional fishing trip.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-89638115615500731662018-02-21T15:46:00.001+11:002018-02-21T15:48:10.891+11:00Moved!I have, all too easily moved my blog over to <a href="https://transienttracy.wordpress.com/blog/" target="_blank">Transient Tracy</a><br />
Hope to see you there.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-39167707541190915932017-07-08T10:57:00.000+10:002017-07-08T11:52:42.557+10:00New Colour CombinationsI have not long returned from a long weekend away at one of my favourite places, Main Creek, where I reacquainted myself with a foundation pieced quilt I started a couple of years ago. Although I have more hand dyed fabric than you could shake a stick at (where does that saying come from?) There were a few shades missing from my colour wheel so this week being lovely and sunny and relatively warm for winter, I braved the chaos out the back and tracked down dyes, pots and all the necessaries to do some dyeing. I also found the two new dyes I had bought at the beginning of the year, still in their plastic wrappers, untouched! It took me a while to find the fabric I knew I had bought as I was looking for white rolls, but they too were still wrapped in the black plastic they were shipped in.<br />
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So after washing the new fabric I decided to do a bit of folding and dye up some multicoloured pieces for another project I have in mind, which will no doubt, end up in a box for years to come.<br />
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I got some lovely crisp even folds using my new iron, which handily turned itself off when I was distracted by other things.<br />
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Having lost my original dye spot and even my table I had to improvise with Steve's trestles and a smaller table. It took me a while to sort myself out as it has been a long time since I have had the dye pots out. It was later in the day than I had intended by the time I got started and Helen bought round some silk thread to dye which she wanted for a weaving project so some of the dyes pots sat overnight. <br />
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These are my missing colours (I hope) with a new blue and another folded piece.</div>
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It is an addictive thing this dyeing, the sun is shinning again today and I would love to keep playing with new colour combinations as the possibilities are just endless, but will resist the urge and get the machine out and do some sewing. Notice no mention of "The room" we will get back to that another time.</div>
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OK, so too many to shake a stick at, had to look it up, originally North American used in the 1800 but no reason as to why or what it meant. Another suggestion was how farmers used to count sheep or cattle pointing their walking stick or cane. Being an All Creatures Great and Small fan, I can relate to this and see how the saying could have come about. Please leave me a comment if you know how or why this came about.</div>
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The office is finished, well nearly and now we can start on my room.
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Of course it going to be a long haul, The room has been completely emptied, the remaining old furniture stashed away for repurposing in the workshop out the back, wardrobes dismantled and a filing cabinet with years worth of paper work sorted, discarded or put away.
Once all the walls were free of clutter, the lazor light thing comes out to shoot levels and see just how warped and twisted the room really is, and just as we feared, the floor is just too bad to leave in and has to be completely removed and new beams put in.
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Today I will be down between those beams clearing out the old floor boards to be stacked for the fire. We are aimimg to have all the new beams in by the end of the weekend then will have to wait for a break in the weather to get the flooring sheets. Its a long weekend here in Australia, so lets hope by the end of it we have a flat floor.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-38777016178345495752017-05-19T15:34:00.000+10:002017-05-21T08:34:17.046+10:00Finding a bargain on a Friday afternoon I know it is not cold, but as soon as the evenings start to draw in and it cools off, we light our little wood burner. It make the house so cosy and I do like to cook on it as mych as possible.
Last year I had a green kettle that we got from the camping shop, which didnt last long as this year I found lots of rust inside it. So this afternoon we took a quick trip down the road to a shop we had previously seen some nice heavy based kettles in. I thought the shop had gone, but it has just changed names, the kettles however had. But we found a very nice copper plate one, half the price of the ones we had seen before and much better made according to Steve. Very happy with our choice we had a quick look around the rest of the kitchen / homeware shelves and found another gem. For a long time now I have been looking for a cast iron pot that will fit in the small oven in the wood stove, and there sitting on the reduced shelf was a gleaming cherry red Denby pot. Price, just $46 reduced from $170. I don't take my bag out with me when I shop with Steve so didnt take too much notice when he paid for our bargin finds. When I did get home and looked at the reciept, this lovely little pot had been reduced further to $33, I love it even more!
Now the forcast rain has set in, the fire is lit, a big pot of pumpkin soup and my whistling copper kettle sits on top. Looking forward to a cosy night in front of the tv and will wrestle with the ever expanding pouf.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-90368780092588672312017-04-20T17:37:00.000+10:002017-04-20T17:37:51.557+10:00On A RollThe weather has been glorious over the easter holidays, which sadly are coming to an end, but decisions have been made and the office is charging ahead. Yesterday we went to Marshalls Timber and the very patient salesman there pulled out all the slabs of spotted gum so we could select two lenghts to make our desk. This will be a big feature in the room as it will take up one whole wall and we have invested heavily in this mighty slab.
Today while I spent another two delightful hours at the dentist it was deliverd, yep,it was too heavy even in two pieces for us to man handle off the roof of the 4wd. As I write this there is the sound of the sander and a cloud of sawdust hovering in the back yard as it becomes one beautiful piece.
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Here is a peek at the bedroom which we have been sleeping in for some months now, still very sparse as needs the niceties added but I have a proper wardrobe with doors!
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We have had the NBN installed! Didn't expect it to happen for years yet, and of course we broke our old modem a few weeks ago and replaced it with one that is of no use to us at all now! It all went surprisingly quickly and easily, internet and phone was off for a few hours, plugged in and turned on the new modem and all working perfectly, although not at the speed of light as promised as the fibre only goes to a node in the street somewhere so still copper to the house unless we want to pay hundreds to have it upgraded, it will do for now. The only down side is that my old mac that I use with my cutting machine, and the only one operational at the moment cannot cope with the new system so I get a spinning beach ball if I connect to the internet, thought I had found the problem after doing a search by turning off some ivp6 or something, but after a few minutes of behaving, got the blasted ball again. So any spelling mistakes here are down to ipad typing error.
I have typed most of this twice at least!
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So this morning I had a list of jobs to get done, the first being to fix the pin in the kitchen aid then see if the seal in the bread pan could be fixed, sort answer, no, it came out of Steves workshop looking very sorry for itself. So the question was do I spend more money on a new pan or replace the bread maker completely. A quick look at the yellowing plastic, non existent menu and a very grubby and corroded bottom made it an easy decision. That's where the easy bit ended. I thought I would replace it with another Sunbeam, either the Bakehouse or the Smartbake should do. There was only $20 difference in the price and both seemed much cheaper than I thought. Of course no shop stocked both models so it was a bit of a run around to compare the two. </div>
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Now if you are not in the market to buy a bread maker or want to know the pros and cons of said machines you will find this very boring so just skip to the end and have a look at some bready pictures. If you are a machine user, you may find this helpful and I would be interested in hearing your experiences, woes and bread making delights. </div>
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The reason for the seemingly low prices is the awful quality of these newer models, they are just flimsy pieces of rubbish! The lids on both machines still come off for cleaning but are attached with a molded plastic hinge arrangement that doesn't look like it will last long at all. None of the plastic parts looked like they fitted well and I could see a lot of cleaning nightmares ahead. The main point of concern is the bottom of the bread pan itself, this is the only part I have had wear out on me and it would be nice to be able to replace just the seal rather than the whole pan. The Bakehouse does have a clip that holds this mechanism in place which makes you think that it would be possible to do just that, but the rest of the machine left a lot to be desired so went into the no basket. Next we looked at the Smart Bake model. They had made a few changes but none that would improve the performance of the machine and definitely not to the welded seal on the bottom of the pan, this, with the overall drop in the quality left us wondering what other options there were. There were a few "mini bake" machines but I couldn't see them standing up to the constant use I know my machine will get. There was a Panasonic model that was a little more expensive but no one had any in stock and I knew nothing about these machines. There was also a very smart stainless and black model with an extra despenser and was considerably more expensive. So we went home for something to eat and do a bit more research.</div>
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With new beast sitting proudly on the kitchen bench I had to ask myself if it was a worthwhile investment as I usually only use the dough setting, which on my first look at the menu I couldn't find! Had I made a real blunder here, surely you could make dough! I then realised that the whole second menu was dough settings, 12 of them in fact along with a jam and compote setting. So which one to use for my tried and tested hot cross bun recipe? After consulting the chart in the trusty manual, I had another Oh no moment when it I realised that all the programs started off with a 30 to 60 min rest period, what was that all about? How was i going to get through a big baking day when the settings were taking in excess of two hours each!</div>
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I put in my ingredients in the order suggested in the panasonic recipes, dry ingredient first followed by wet which is the exact opposite to what I have been doing for years now, but seeing as my first venture was not even using a recommended recipe, I thought I had better follow some the book. I put the yeast in the special little dispense in the lid, and the fruit in the other then had to wait patiently until it decided everything was at the right temperature to start. The result, beautifully soft bouncy dough that made the best buns I have had for a long time. While waiting for this beautiful dough to appear, I had a more thorough look at the manual and found a pizza dough setting that has no rest time at the beginning and is finished in 45 mins. This will work great on my big bake up days and I think will become the most used program. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-54917188783236377452017-02-05T11:13:00.000+11:002017-02-05T11:18:48.448+11:00Oh JanuaryI don't know what it is about the month of January but I go into a state of apathy. When we lived in the U.K. I blamed it on the short days and cold weather but now we live in Australia so that can't be the reason. Now it is just too hot to do anything but flop around the house and moan about the temperature. This is a bit of a problem as it is also holiday time when I should be full of inspiration and energy but to be fair it has been a stinkingly hot summer. February is finally here so no more excuses.
Ready for a bedroom update? We are nearly there! The floor was laid and finished over Christmas, took far longer than it should as the lacquer was taking three to four days to dry between coats instead of twelve hours. There was plenty of heat around so we are blaming humidity. After Christmas I traipsed through every bedroom furniture shop in and around Newcastle trying to find something that would fit and we both could live with, an almost impossible task. In desperation we drove to the central coast and found something. It only arrived this past Friday and we picked it up yesterday.
Last week we decided the wardrobe we had bought many years ago and had stored out the back was not going to work. It was going to have to be an IKEA free standing one and a complete change around of the layout of the room, honestly this one room has caused us more grief than any other so far! As I now don't work one Tuesday a fortnight, we took off to Sydney after our baby sitting duty was finished. Anyone reading this that lives locally will know that it probably wasn't the smartest move due to being a really hot day, the car guage read 45c at one stage and the fact there had been a crash between a truck and a crane that had the highway closed to all north bound traffic. Not a problem for us on the way down and would be cleared by the time we were coming home you would think. Well no, the road surface had been too badly damaged in the fire caused by the accident. By late afternoon a contra flow had been set up, yes it did take that long, and from what I can gather, a bush fire broke out on the alternative south bound traffic route. It was a day of chaos and frustration for anyone traveling on the highway that day. We were lucky in that we only sat in crawling pace traffic for about fifty minutes having decided to wait until later in the evening before attempting to get home. Of course, after such a hot day came the the rain, only light but we still had to buy a tarp and tape to wrap up the boxes, wood and water are never a great mix. It was well after nine by the time we got home and as some of the boxes weighted 60 kg, that stayed in the back of the ute for the night. Normally with our IKEA shopping sprees, everything is ok but this time we had missing screws, bits that weren't the right finish and we cracked a corner on a door panel, so yesterday saw another trip down the dreaded highway to put all to rights and pick up the bedroom suite on the way back. Fingers crossed, we now have all we need to finish the wardrobe and get the furniture in and we can finally move rooms. Let's hope the next one doesn't give us as much grief!
No sewing or creativity has been happening here, even my little pile of triangles did not get finished for Christmas. I did however make these shopping bags from all my patterned hand dyed half meters for gifts at school.
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The next room we attempt will be my new work room, seems a long time coming but hopefully future posts will see a quicker transformation of an old room into a lovely organised place to create.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-26015882768785144492016-12-04T16:37:00.000+11:002016-12-04T16:44:02.818+11:00Getting there and lots of trianglesThe tricky floor is sorted, we have used the left over boards and the new lot will be delivered on Tuesday. We are aiming to move into the new bedroom for Christmas then start the big demolish job in the new year, yes it will be hot but we never seem to make things easy for ourselves.
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I have been working on a few Christmas projects this weekend and have a table full of little triangles, or half square triangles as they are commonly known. I have found a new way (for me) to make these, have a look <a title="triangles" href="http://www.blossomheartquilts.com/2012/07/hst-tutorial-and-maths-formula/?v=6cc98ba2045f" target="_blank">here</a>. I will never be drawing diagonal lines again, this works brilliantly and is very accurate.
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Christmas seems to have crept up on me yet again, I will never get used to a summer Christmas. Only a couple of weeks left of the term, cakes are made, the tree will go up late again, hopefully after the dust has settled from the floor sanding yet to come, and I have plenty of sewing to get done in my little space in the office. I have stocked up on dyes, a new red and blue has been added to the collection, and have ordered fabric ready for some dying fun during the holidays, in between stripping the front bedroom and watching the tennis 😐
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-60432200439974209302016-11-19T10:17:00.000+11:002016-11-19T10:19:25.088+11:00A few weeks of contrastsProgress on the bedroom is embarrassingly slow, the main hold up bring this little beauty. We now have to get the new floor to match through the rest of the house, but we are about to unload a flooring sheet from the roof of the ute and, fingers crossed start to get the sub floor down.
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There has been some progress thou, I now have a completely white room.
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In contrast to all this whiteness, I did a one day workshop up at Maincreek recently and the ladies produced an amazing array of colour and patterns.
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A few other colourful things are happening here and now that school work is settling down after a hectic few weeks, I hope to get back to doing weekly posts.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-3548229437696960472016-10-16T14:23:00.000+11:002016-10-16T20:22:28.074+11:00A quick update and a word of cautionThe last school term has started and work dominates everything it seems at the moment but there had been some progress in the to be bedroom, the ceiling is done and the lights installed, although the rest is very much a work in progress.
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I have spent this morning putting together some note cards using images the year 8 photography class have taken and edited. These are going to the local primary school who are having an art show this year. I think they have done a great job.
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And now for that word of warning. I recently bought those Frixion pens thinking they were the answer to all our fabric marking dilemmas. My grandson was round yesterday having a nap under the little quilt I had made him and I noticed the pink lines that I had drawn for my quilting guides had reappeared in some places, ironing did nothing to get rid of them, but a soak and wash seems to have done the trick although there are still a few faint marks. The quilt is still wet so I will check again later. This has only happen on the printed fabric, all the hand dyes seem of. I remember drawing over the lines a few times as they weren't where I wanted them and I suspect the pen has gone right through the fabric and into the wadding and some months later have reappeared. So I would be a little cautious if using loose weave fabrics, don't overdo the pen marks!
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I have just taken the latest sour dough experiment out of the oven, lets just save it it an enormous improvement on my last attempt. In fact a big buttery hunk is calling me, fortification to tackle some marking, what better way to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon.
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I have downloaded a new app for blogging, it's great! And have changed the setting for leaving comments here. I know a few people have tried but have not had a google account, now it should be much easier.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-2975714007965124752016-10-01T18:33:00.001+10:002016-10-01T18:33:50.727+10:00A Frustrating Day What a waste of a day! I had the whole day to myself and usually have a project planned that I can do uninterrupted, but today I decided my blog needed a freshen up and spent hours looking at templates deciding what I really wanted the "new" blog to look like, downloaded a template and fell into a hole of woe! Hours later I'm back where I started here, minus a few bits that didn't backup before I went down the slippery path of messing up your blog. I do however have a wix site, not sure I am going to change over thou.<br />
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So at 4,o,clock, I realised I was still in my pj's and hadn't actually remembered to eat anything apart from the obligatory cups of coffee, but not sure they count as proper nutritional intake.<br />
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The bedroom is still coming along ok, the cornice is up and we had hoped to have the lights in before the weekend but the weather has been horrible, making it difficult to work without lights and the chief renovator is away for the weekend<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-16614249147493893042016-09-25T14:45:00.002+10:002016-10-08T08:07:45.371+11:00Plodding AlongWell I have decided not to show anymore pictures of bare walls as progress is s....l....o...w... but school holidays are here so I will be acting as foreman and will kick some butt!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-36004271764585216832016-09-18T14:23:00.001+10:002016-09-18T14:23:37.292+10:00A little progressI did warn you progress will be slow, a week on and we now have square corners! The trouble with renovating a very old house is dealing with warp, in this case warps and wefts as this house twists and turns every way imaginable and after spend so much time getting the living area straight, Steve is not going to be beaten by this room. There will be another week of levelling and flattening before anything serious happens in here, but will be worth the effort when we come to put in the wardrobes as hopefully it will fit into a proper corner and the doors will actually slide.<br />
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My six balls of wool from last week have transformed into this little gem, I am addicted to this overlay crochet, and looking for something else to keep me busy in the evenings. I think this will end up as a cushion for the back deck, it will complement the lovely spring bulbs that are blooming away at the moment.<br />
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Well after a lot of persuading we have decided that a spare bedroom is completely unnecessary and I can have a room in the house, the fact that Steve is in need of more work space had no bearing on the decision I'm sure!<br />
You may also be aware that we are in the process of the longest renovation ever undertaken by man, or women for that matter, but today, at last I feel like we are moving forward again. We have had a junk room for more years than I care to remember, it is like a black hole in the middle of the house. The door is always firmly shut and very few people have seen behind it. This afternoon, it's walls and floor were finally laid bare, not a bit of junk remained, it is a blank canvas, ready for transformation into ........ No...... Not. My work room, but our bedroom. This is going to be a very long process! <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-31974627658166207122015-05-29T09:47:00.001+10:002015-05-29T09:47:09.454+10:00Latest Project <span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">My latest project using my pile of fat quarters is this lovely pin cushion /thread catcher. A free pattern can be found here.</span><br style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><a href="http://www.sewmamasew.com/media/blog/SMSPincushionOrganizer.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.sewmamasew.com/media/…/SMSPincushionOrganizer.pdf</a><br style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">I now have a colourful collection to organise all my bits and pieces for my next sewing weekend away.</span><br style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">I still have quite a collection of fabric left, even a few whole fat quarters so if you have any suggestion for my next project, then post them here, or if you have something you want to see made up in hand dyed fabrics let me know and I will see what I can do.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-12021493128418121122015-05-21T15:04:00.000+10:002015-05-22T13:49:50.989+10:00Quiltarama 2015It is that time of year again and yes, I have been a very bad blogger as my last post was about this time last year!!<br />
All the information for this years Quiltarama can be found at<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%C2%A0http://www.quiltarama.com.au/" target="_blank"> http://www.quiltarama.com.au/</a><br />
This is going to be an exciting year, with a change of venue and more workshops on offer.<br />
This year I am doing another dye workshop but focusing on colour theory. All the details can be found on my tutors page<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%C2%A0http://www.quiltarama.com.au/tracy-mcnicoll/" target="_blank"> http://www.quiltarama.com.au/tracy-mcnicoll/</a><br />
As I have said over on the tutors page, I have set myself a challenge to use all the 21 fat quarters in a variety of small projects, which I will show you over the next few days.<br />
For today, here are a couple of photos of the lovely colours that will be dyed up at the workshop.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-54560937452291857322014-03-19T17:02:00.003+11:002014-03-19T21:30:35.588+11:00Quiltarama Work ShopQuiltarma will be held on the 21st and 22nd of June<br />
This year they are offering two day workshops and I will be doing a Dye N' Stamp wall hanging workshop in the CWA rooms.<br />
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You can down load all the workshop information<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4cDpMudrgqGcm1IbjFqNmtCQW8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"> here.</a><br />
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I spent a lovely Saturday at <a href="http://thorpeandcosewingmachines.com.au/" target="_blank">Thorpes</a> in Hunter Street presenting a dyed journal cover workshop. The ladies dyed up some beautiful fabrics then added their own stamped designs. I love to see each individuals approach to using these stamps, the combinations and patterns they produce never cease to amaze me</div>
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It has been hectic here and there are things I should be doing that aren't getting done but while having a coffee break the other day I came across this amazing person on you tube and after watching her mixed media bottle project thought "I have all that stuff out the back" so of course once the seed had been planted, I just had to go and have a try. </div>
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I have this old jar of brushes on my sculpting table which is a bit ordinary to say the least so this became my object for "the treatment"<br />
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I went looking for the mould I knew I had of the faces Rachel used, then thought, hang on I have a box of polymer clay bits with some faces I burnt earlier. There was also a pair of hands from a long abandoned project. The brain kept churning and I thought I might use some of the moulded paper pieces I have stashed away too and why not see what is left in the little blue box full of paper and card pieces from when I had my Cougar up and running for that brief period of time. So I ended up with the collection above and went about randomly chucking them at my pot.</div>
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You can watch the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAQtcwsXMwg" target="_blank">You tube video</a> yourself and make sure you check out some of the wonderful things Rachel does. She also has a fascinating looking <a href="http://www.artfulevidence.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> which I haven't had time to look at yet, that will have to wait for another day. Now I really must get back to the stuff I should be doing, my play time is over for now.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826979502302760979noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2152212534214692260.post-7150603865317139302013-04-19T14:46:00.001+10:002013-04-19T14:57:06.365+10:00Printing from Carved Leather BlocksOver the past couple of months both my work rooms have had a good clear out and revamp. One because of the acquisition of a sewing cabinet the other because of the presence of a well buried and extremely smelly dead furry thing. This second room has been used mainly for storage for a good long while and it was an enormous job clearing and sorting years of accumulated "stuff". But I have found things long lost and re discovered other things completely forgotten.<br />
One of the things re discovered was a short paper I wrote on printing from carved leather blocks. I majored in printmaking at Uni and was asked to do this at the last minute as no one had used this technique before. I'm not saying it hasn't been done before, just not at this particular University, so here are some pictures of the carved leather blocks and the prints that resulted from them.<br />
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Unfortunately I have one, not very good print left from these blocks.</div>
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Well another year has gone by and another well and truly here. I had a very slow end to last year and slower still start to this year, but everything back on track now. Here are a few pictures of some of the things I actually finished, started or abandoned, doesn't seem so bad really.</div>
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An online workshop I actually completed, all hand dyed of course and my first attempt with Darwi clay.</div>
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Kit bought ready for a workshop beginning in March.</div>
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A lost project finished.</div>
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Since taking these pictures, much has been happening in my work space. I will show you what very soon. </div>
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