Leafygal

Stocking Sampler

Finally I have scanned the latest piece of the reproduction of the 1860's stocking sampler that I am doing as a knitalong.
I am up to date at pattern 15 and pattern 16 has just been posted - so off I go again.
I hadn't done much lace knitting before and this is a great way of learning as you just get a little taste of each pattern.
Maybe next time (!!!) I will do it as a series of face washers - lovely to look at and useful to boot!

Busy Busy

I've been rather busy lately. We did a display for the Barwon Water and Geelong City Council Waterwise Expo a few weekends ago. Several thousand people visited and we hope we got our Leaf and Stone name further out into the community. Favourable responses to our displays have resulted in a few sales so far, but "one never knows - do one!!"

Last weekend started on Wednesday night with the Stitch and Bitch knitting group - I am progressing with a feather and fan scarf in a very fine laceweight hand dyed wool. I am also up to date with the dutch stocking sampler, awaiting pattern #16

Thursday night went to a very enjoyable concert in memory of Hiroyuki Iwaki - recently deceased conductor emeritus of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Concert by a Japanese chamber orchestra started by master Iwaki. We heard a mixture of sixties Japanese, Mozart Piano concerto, Ross Edwards Oboe concerto written for and played by Diana Doherty and my favourite Prokfiev Classical Symphony where the orchestra really let their hair down!  Great stuff.

Friday night we sorted out the wines for the Breast Buddies Annual Wine drive - lots of fun and Pizza later - we seem to have raised more than $1000 so far.

Saturday I attended the Morongo Old Collegian's Annual General Meeting where I took over the reins as President for the next 3 years! If you had told me when I left school that this would be happening I would have been very astonished!!!!!

Home to cook for Father's family 88th birthday party at our place - just a little pork roast dinner for 11 followed by the simplest dessert I could think of..... Two kinds of ice cream topped with raspberry and cointreau coulis, melted mars bar sauce,  slivered almonds and I finally got to play with one of those spray cans of cream! (I forgot to put a cherry on top!)

Sunday - just another day starting with the Mini Field of Women at the waterfront in Geelong. Pepper wore a gorgeous Pink Ribbon in honour of the occasion.  Lunch at the Wintergarden, driving Father home and ending up in Melbourne for our annual reunion with our friends from 3ST (way back when we were students at RMIT)

Monday home, Lunch with father at the Carrington after his doctor's appointment and then drove him home.  Me out to the "Girl's Night In"  fundraiser for Breast Cancer day.

Tuesday - day off- I didn't do much!!  I was somewhat bushed by then - I can't think why!
I did finish my page in the Spread your wings Deco book and it has now been sent off.

Mail Art

Some time back I sent off an altered postcard to a mail art project in the US.
Here's a link to the results  (Serendipity) The cards were sent out all over the world and we altered them as we saw fit. I think the results are fascinating  - see what each person thought to do.
Here's my one again just to remind us!!

Words Words Words

More artwork lately - I have made my first art journal and sent it off on its travels
Here are pics of my part of it and I am curious to see what the other members of this round robin will do to it.  (Click on pics for readable versions)

Mood Indigo

That's what I thought of when I saw the pages available for me to do my thing in this round robin Deco Book on the colourful topic of Rainbow.
On the other hand I just love Japanese fabrics, especially the traditional Indigo coloured ones - so went with that theme.
Pasted fabric as background, topped 'n' tailed with gold tissue (in case you hadn't noticed this is one of my favourite materials to use) then psted on pic of geisha which I hand coloured to increase the indigo. More gold stippled on , my Japanese character stamp of "Peace"  and now to send it off to the next artist.
This book has some really beautiful pages and if the owner puts it up on the web when it's finished I will just have to do a link to it.

Circulating Collages

I've recently sent off the next two in the series of round Robin collages.
One of them was the fourth layer - there didn't seem to be much left to me to do, so I tried to emphasise the lovers with gold tissue and link them to the mysterious door and the woods. I added falling hearts (like falling leaves) to give more eye pulling power.
The second collage was the second layer. I was presented with a sheet that looked like a giant bar code over a pinky red background. I used a credit card to scrape white gold and quinacridone magenta in blocky shapes. To add texture I used a stamp with pinks and mauves and some punchinella as a stencil for gold paint.
They've now gone on to their next art workers.
The first round robin is now nearly finished and I am looking forward to getting my own collage back.