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I can see your tracks

 

 

  

Laura Veirs - "I can see your tracks", (via Des Brimborions ) 

In the studio today

Woops!! I've been tinkering with the banner up above and background colours etc. Bear with me for a little while until I get it all looking fresh and smart.

Other tinkerings:

a small plastic bag vessel with chubby thighs.

its innards

a beautiful and delicate visitor

a small empty space on my table...... a rare event

A busy day today.

Bright-eyed and Bushy-tailed

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday and feel bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready for 2012. I'm back in the studio this week after a visit to Sydney, Christmas celebrations and visitors to my little red house. Feels good.

 some doodly fun

with thread

a petri dish doodle

and a slime mould experiment. Not really!

abundance from the garden

my first banana crop.

Good news: The ' Entropy Collection' will be exhibited in the Tweed River Regional Gallery this November. I'll be scaling it up to approx. 5.0 x 1.5m.

 

Helen Frankenthaler

December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011

Tweed River Art Gallery Christmas Market

We're having a market at our very beautiful regional gallery, the Tweed River River Gallery. Selling their work will be 14  local artisans (including myself). Come and join us.

 

Christmas stars and a giant crochet hook

The elves have been busy in the studio crocheting star ornaments. Made using vintage patterns, hemp and jute.

I'm hoping the elves will have finished this giant doily when I return tomorrow morning.

The Moobah Show

The long-legged, jodpur-wearing Grand Champion of the Murwillumbah Show.

The curious Reserve Champion.

Our local produce.

Yummy cakes.......... note padlock.

The sweet smelling roses.

The gerberas.

and last but not least............ Mr. Potato Head.

Corals and Prints in m(art), Brisbane

Last week I drove into Brisbane to deliver my prints, corals and greeting cards to m(art), the retail face of Craft Queensland. This has meant spending many hours crocheting and felting corals and printing linoprints. I've had the weekend to rest..... aaahhhh!!

The felting process...... friction, hot water and dishwashing liquid. Preferably done wearing pyjamas and accompanied by many cups of tea.

Anatomically correct

A young crochet prodigy

The crochet workshops went very well. It was a rewarding experience for me and I think my students were happy with the classes. I had two classes of 6 students with another 4-5 ladies on the waiting list. The next set of classes will start in 3 weeks.

This is my student Noah, a very enthusiastic and extremely fast learner. He's 13 years old. He came to visit me in the studio last week wearing one of his motifs pinned to his shirt and a basket full of crochet projects.

In front of a wonderful mural by the river wearing one of my crochet necklaces.

The last couple of months have been spent settling into the studio, setting up the crochet workshops and making things to sell at the different local markets. I just got word that my work will be going to Artisan, the retail shop of Craft Queensland in Brisbane. 

Guess what these are...............