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		<title>images and printing trials</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m collecting images for a sketchbook-this one is for the section illustrating &#8220;Shape&#8221;. Or perhaps for &#8220;Colour&#8221;. I found it on Sunday and it is straight from the camera, no manipulation. The tiny berry is my favourite element.
There were more printing experiments today, as well as steaming yesterday&#8217;s pieces. I should have known there would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=2489&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>wine gums and jam tarts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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I finished the first lichen inspired piece begun here, and I have started a &#8220;Lichen &#8221; sketchbook to record my findings about this fascinating plant life.
There is a wonderful website of lichen information here and one of the facts I learned today was that the reproductive spores are produced in disc-like structures called apothecia. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=2445&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>liking lichen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have had just enough rain over the last couple of days to make my vegetable plot workable-it has been very dry here for several weeks. The soil is heavy clay  and we joke that there are about 4 days in any year when it is a pleasure to work. Today was one of them, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=2387&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>velvet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Silk velvet. Gorgeous, sumptuous, tactile fabric. Last week at my course with Carole Waller, I painted on silk velvet. This time, I took an idea and a colour scheme in my head and after 3 weeks of working with the Procion dyes, had a better idea how to create the colour scheme I wanted. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=2104&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>live and learn</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second week of the creative course built on the previous week&#8217;s work with a silkscreen. This time, instead of using a photoscreen she had prepared-I don&#8217;t understand how these are made yet-we used blank screens.  Carole uses Procion dyes for all her work-thickening the mixture with Manutex (sodium alginate), a seaweed based product,  for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=2090&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>learning a new skill</title>
		<link>http://threadspider.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/learning-a-new-skill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have put my computer on only occasionally for the last couple of weeks-so my apologies for being absent and thank you for your enquiries-I am well-very well.  This evening we have just eaten our own salad leaves, beetroot, and fabulous, freshly dug potatoes, followed by a huge helping of strawberries, all from the allotment. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=2062&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>at last-a  textile post</title>
		<link>http://threadspider.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/at-last-a-textile-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much spring indulgence has been happening here-country walks, gardening, vegetable growing, exhibition visiting, and now finally, something textile based. But first, I want to send a huge Thank you to Kit in Minnesota for the beautiful pieces of her textile art that arrived in the post this morning. Thank you so much, Kit, for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=1958&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>cutiepie</title>
		<link>http://threadspider.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/cutiepie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Just proving I have a lighter side-meet Cutiepie or the Velvet Bird as he is really.
I was given a copy of Maggie Grey/Valerie Campbell Hardings book &#8220;Layers of Stitch&#8221; as a present, and I have been playing with some ideas from it. Such a luscious source of loveliness and food for many thoughtful pieces still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=1403&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>weekly round up 3</title>
		<link>http://threadspider.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/weekly-round-up-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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I am away this weekend and knowing what a catastrophe I had losing this post last weekend, I shall write and post this evening. Just a one tonight.
I have started stitching -Yay! But I&#8217;m not going to post a photo of a single imperial purple thread couched onto a piece of white linen. You are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=1043&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>what if there were silken pleats</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My feelings about the last crazy patch were that whilst it was an interesting experiment, I feel that particular footpath  led off into the deep woods and I may wander there again in sunnier weather. Today there is cloud and a lowering light and I wondered, what if there were pleats? I&#8217;ve added a couple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=568&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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