Dijanne Cevaal workshop

Dijanne Cevaal a good friend of mine is coming over and I have talked her into doing a workshop on Lutradur and transfer painting on Saturday Feb 20. More of Dijannes work

Transfer Printing is a method of getting permanent colour onto synthetic materials such as lutradur (a polyester non-woven fibre), polyester and polyester organza. The process allows you to get three prints so that a series can be created. We also explore methods of melting back and free machine stitching to embellish your printed fabric. Using Polyester fabrics such as organza allows you to build layers and play with transparency and overlays and still create your own distinctive fabrics and pieces.

You will need your machine with darning foot

Price will be £40 including materials.

A supply list will be provided on sign up.

Can anyone who is interested please let me know with a comment and your email please so I can get back to you

Colours of Africa event in Belgium

Here is the link to the page of the event where I will be having some of my work in an exhibition that I keep mentioning.

Colours of Africa

A Textile event in "De Oude Pastorij", Essen, Belgium on 17 & 18 April 2010.

Organised by Trapsuutjies Fabric Paint in cooperation with the Town Council of Essen and together with Connection and Yda Walt.

• 4 Textile artists have come together under the name Connection and will exhibit their work during this event.
  Annette Jeukens, Hella Sluyters, Jacqueline de Jong-van Baalen and Laura Liebenberg have chosen the cylinder as shape for this exhibition.


• Our guest artist is Yda Walt from South Africa. Yda designs fabric using iconic South African images. Screenprinting and lino-cutting are two of her specialities. You can view her work on her website: www.ydawalt.co.za

During the event you will be able to browse in a few shops which have a connection with South Africa. So far the following shops will be present:
- the African Fabric Shop from England, well known for their fantastic collection of fabrics, beads, buttons etc.
- Trapsuutjies Fabric Paint known for its good quality paints, stamps and stencils from South Africa.

Todays felting

Here are two more pieces that I did today, the green one I started out as a headband .. I think it still may need a bit of stitching on it lets see how it goes.. it looks nice as a bracelet as well.
The other brownish piece is still wet so lets see how it looks tomorrow once its dry.

I am going to do a felted piece for my exhibition in Belgium for april .. stayed tuned!

The first piece I made

Here is the first piece I made in the morning. ok ok I gotta go and make more ....
ADDICTED show you more later.
BYE

Lizzie Houghton workshop

Here are my first results from the workshops. I am sooo excited and I loved the workshop. Lizzie was fantastic and a great time was had by all .
Look not bad here is my piece the first one and there are bits of lace, wool velvet and fabrics entrapped in the felt. What do you think of my first piece?

This next picture is of Cherry who was a lovely lady working beside me, Lizzie brought out some of her new pieces that she has made and Cherry fell in love with it. We made her try it on, I now think its hers ... I will wait to see if she bought it. More details on that as it comes in .

The photo below is work that was done by the ladies during the day.
What do you think of the piece? you may have to click on the photo for a closer look, but there is nothing like seeing the piece. Now your going to have to watch as I will be doing alot more felting .