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Year of the Pig Mosaic

Complete!

Finished finally!

Finally finished them all. Ready for delivery.

Blossoms

Pigtails

Peony

Lychee

Pig, pigs, pigs everywhere

I found some sketches on various bits of paper around the house. Thought it best to collect and save them. I tend to sketch and write down ideas all over the place, on all sorts of bits of paper. Time to get a bit organized!

I finished another Year of the Pig embroidery yesterday........ one more to go.

Oh!...............My grandparents were pig farmers

Porcinus Progress

Another Piggy work finished.....

Pagoda

Three Little Piggies has been given a bit more texture with french knots.

Very old bluebirds added to the Yoyo

All have been mounted on wooden frames. Only 4 more to go and deadline looming.

39 degrees Celsius in Sydney yesterday, 13 degrees above average. Ocean..... 17 degrees Celsius, 5 degrees below average!!!!!!!!

Annus Piggus cont'd

Beavering away to meet the deadline.

7 completely finished, 2 almost there, 3 half finished!!

Smell the Flowers

Year of the Pig

A new beginning.

Year of the Pig

2007 is the Chinese Year of the Pig.

I'm busy making some textile collages with this in mind. The pieces will be exhibited at the Robin Gibson Gallery in Sydney in February. They are made from materials I've collected from op shops (clothes, haberdashery, doileys, buttons etc.). I've chosen a palette which I call my Marie Antoinette palette - it consists of a muddy turquoise, orange-pink, grey-blue and muddy putty. The collages are assembled on calico and will be stretched on little frames. They aren't finished yet.....some more piggy details are needed.

A bamboo shoot.

These are the first yoyos I've made(slightly dodgy). I've been so inspired by all the Flickr images of gorgeous yoyos I wanted to make some myself.

I love the poppy fabric in the middle.... it came from a threadbare cushion cover.

I love his strong haunches.

This will have a little pig flying in to land in the tree.

A happy little pig!

5 almost finished, 7 more to go.