encrust

aiming for encrustation
I'll let it sit for a while
to consider if there is enough

built/hard environment

at Cranbourne again

the landscape architecture was just amazing

this poem says it all

sinuous curves abound

flowering yellow

Just some of the flowers

from my visit to Cranbourne Botanic Gardens

earlier this year

Acacia (wattle)

Kangaroo Paw

Waratah

delicious eco dyed silk

cloth weaving
(discovered with Jude Hill)
lustrous silks
from the gum pot
suture stitches
a current stitch signature

another design sheet

I enjoyed creating the design sheets in Karens class so much

working on another

banksia

scale

layers (transparency)

colour pop

texture

abstraction

a new thought

Mini Design sheet

I have been doing the Doodle, Gather and Create on-line class with Karen Ruane

It was scheduled to run for 2 weeks, but overflowed with new ideas for an additional week.

We made layers of paper to mix and match with designs.

top sheet

middle sheet

bottom sheet

small overlay

some more detail

Pin Pillow

Tree Waratah printing & ecodyeing

This is the "Tree Waratah"
(Alloxylon flammeum)
in my garden
It flowers spectacularly every year

and here are my eco printed/dyed
hand coloured
Christmas Cards
which will be on sale at the
North Shore Craft Group
Christmas Sale
21 - 23 November 2014
Thornleigh Community Hall

North Shore Craft Group

I have just joined this group
so
getting ready for sales time

Cranbourne Botanic Garden - vistas of plants

These gardens are on the outskirts of Melbourne.

I visited in October on my way to Fibre Forum in Geelong

These vistas are dominated by plants

more on No.2

adding an Australian flavour
representation of gum leaves
and flowers

with repetition of the purple and yellow

Weaving 2

"plant dyed" organza

woven into

old embroidered tray doyley