Eat - Play - Quilt: Textile Art

Before Christmas I was given 'Permission To Play' by following along with Carolyn Dube from A Colorful Journey blog and started making a little cardboard book.

If you would like to follow along, Carolyn has generously offered this tutorial for absolutely free. Just click on the Permission to Play link and register. You will be guaranteed lots of fun and gain lots of inspiration from Carolyn who has a fun way of showing us how to be free with our art. There is a Facebook page where you can share your work called A Colorful Place to Play.

Here is my little book which I am calling finished - but may not be!F

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On Sunday I decided to play around with some fabric paints I have had for years and years. They are a Jaquard product, Dye-Na-Flow. They are easy to use, very saturated colour and can be used on many surfaces. I colourised some backgrounds of pieces of white cotton I had used to try out different techniques. Silly me forgot to take before photos but I was very happy with the finished pieces.

While I was at it I used them on my art apron too which I had made before Christmas. It is going to be worn at our new textile art group gatherings at Toowoomba Quilters. We call ourselves TAG - Textile Art Group. A lot of the backgrounds of the collaged pieces were white so I went to town with COLOUR!! Makes me happy now.

Until next time, have fun, Dianne.

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It has been a busy couple of weeks with appointments and a trip to Brisbane but at last, today, I have a day at home to catch the breath.
Our beautiful daughter, Bonnie, turned 30 this past Monday. We went to Brisbane and took her to lunch on Sunday and spoiled her a little bit.
This is the card I made for her with one of my new stencils from Crafter’s Workshop. The stencils were on sale at one of my fave online stores for all things crafty , Craft Online.com.au. Their service is exceptional and they have a really good overall selection of scrapbooking and craft supplies.

This stencil has a whole lot of possibilities. I painted the background of the card in the gold colour and used dylusions sprays over the stencil in purple and aqua. After this photo I toned down the ‘30’ a bit and made it blend in a bit more. The flowers were accented with a white gel pen from pentel.

When it comes to coffee, I am very conservative and usually order a cappuccino or a latte. After our lunch at the very nice ‘Boathouse’ at the old Regatta Hotel, I indulged in my fist macchiato. It could have been hotter for my liking but it was enjoyable and I would definitely have another. It is very strong though and nearly blew my socks off – didn’t need any more caffeine for the rest of the day. Luke (Bonnie’s fiancee) had a cold coffee which was in layers. Condensed milk on the bottom, double shot coffee and a top layer of cream. His could have been more chilled to make it more enjoyable.

It was a glorious sunny winter’s day yesterday, so DH and I went for a little drive to Warwick to take in some of the Jumpers and Jazz Festival which is on all this week.
A lot of trees in the main street were yarn bombed and there were some very creative ones. The main street of Warwick was ablaze with colour.

The Town Crier was there outside of City Hall and he introduced the Warwick High School band who played some jazzy numbers.
It was lovely to see all the girl saxophonists. When I learned saxophone at age 13 it was a bit of a novelty. There weren’t many girls playing saxophone in those years. Hearing the saxophone still evokes wonderful memories of my teenage years spent playing the sax in a couple of different bands and enjoying entertaining others. Perhaps I will entertain again one day – in the old people’s home? LOL.
There were 2 wonderful exhibitions in the Warwick Art Gallery. I was thrilled to bits to be able to see the work of Cas Holmes up close and in the flesh. Her work is an inspiration to me. Do visit her website and be blown away by the work that Cas achieves
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By Cas Holmes. I think this work was called From the Tea Garden.
There were many more wonderful works of textile art in the Exposition Exhibition by six Australian artists and six international artists. Of course, I took many more pictures for inspiration.
What about this ‘Knitchen’

This display was amazing!! Everything in this kitchen was either covered in knit or crochet or made entirely by knitting and/or crocheting. Yes, even the tiles on the floor.