Today was a day about art and creativity. A friend of the family who knows of my interests has a grandson whose other grandma is also into knitting, felting, etc so she invited us over today to her house and I met Sandy. Very nice lady. She showed me some of her works. Really beautiful items such as a jacket that she ironed on a design and used bleach to get a reverse pattern on it. She made these gorgeous scarves using some type of fusion fabric and hand-dyed ribbon and yarns. And she had two felted dolls with hand made clothes on. They were so cool. Then we went to lunch and then we went to an art exhibit of her groups works at a library in Glendale. She won two areas last year in purses, a gorgeous "Peacock Purse" too hard to describe, and a gorgeous purple felted bag. The work in the exhibit was unreal. They used a technique i had never heard or seen before called Shibori. It's a Japanese pleating and dying technique. There were hand felted items. Gowns, made entirely from scratch with beading and quilting... they were exquisite. I may go back in a couple weeks when the artists will be there for a reception and there is a talk from one of the artists. She gave me a list of references and some cool local LYS that i have to go check out.
Bad news was i've had a headache all day...still there. I'm going to bed.
Bad news was i've had a headache all day...still there. I'm going to bed.
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One of the recent issues of IK (can't recall which exactly, but it was from this year) had an interesting article on Shibori and some neat website links... like .
:)
sp6 pal
One of the recent issues of IK (can't recall which exactly, but it was from this year) had an interesting article on Shibori and some neat website links... like http://www.shibori.org/
:)
sp6 pal
(argh, sorry if this double posts, it messed up my html something fierce)
Hey Mitchypoo ... nope, not too late on the music CD! Send me an email separately to jeniferorama at gmail dot com just to remind me, though. :) Take care!
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