Right now, I'm on PEI having a wee little vacation. I head to Fredericton on Thursday for a three day Fine Craft Festival organized by the New Brunswick Craft Council. This will be an outdoor show (luckily, I made sure I would have a tent for me and my scarves), and I'm hoping that the hurricane that is scheduled to hit the east coast this weekend misses Fredericton completely.
The Fine Craft Festival takes place at Officer's Square in downtown Fredericton. On Friday, the show will run from 12 - 7, Saturday from 10 - 6, and Sunday from 11 - 5. If you're in the area, please pop by and say hello!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
on the horizon
Running around today trying to get everything in order. To PEI early tomorrow morning for a week's vacation and then directly to Fredericton, NB for a craft show. Getting our apartment tidied up, making sure our cat Luigi has food to eat while my friend Brooke looks after him for a week until Damien returns from PEI next week. Cutting up freshly printed business cards and hang tags that I've been re-designing myself as I become more proficient with Adobe InDesign. Making sure everything I need for events of the next two weeks are packed.

Yesterday I finished my first small run of new "Horizon" scarves, and today I washed and dryed them on the line. I think I will see how they do in Fredericton "un-dyed". I definitely have to fight the urge to saturate the colour by dyeing the scarves in acid dye. This would colour the white silk while leaving the three colours of cotton (already coloured when I weave them) the same colours. But once I try them on, I really like the lightness that the natural white silk gives to the colour palette.
Monday, August 23, 2010
prep
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Thursday loom shot
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
coming back


My piece that was part of the Annual Members Exhibition at the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador's Devon House Gallery in St. John's is on its way back to me. I made it over the course of two weeks in June and then promptly sent it to St. John's to be juried for the exhibit. It will be nice to see it again. Above are two photos of my piece, Bottle Cove, both photographed by Eric Walsh at the gallery. There's photographs of all the works in the show online on the Craft Council of NL's website.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Tuesday morning loom shot
A close up of my Echo scarf warp tie-on. Whenever it's time to put on another warp of the same threading, I simply tie warp string to warp string and then pull the knots through the reed and the heddles. Today I'll strip the loom of the Echo scarf threading that's been on there for over a month, and actually get down to working on a new scarf design that I've had in my head for a while.....
Sunday, August 15, 2010
home for a rest
Friday, August 6, 2010
to market to market
Today I realized I had to get to work on this art project for an upcoming exhibition in PEI. The idea is that artists in four provinces (PEI, NS, NB, NL) contribute an unfinished piece and then complete another one of the artists' unfinished artworks. The finished works will be exhibited at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Gallery Connexion in Fredericton, and Eastern Edge Gallery in St. John's. Any medium, the pieces are assigned randomly.

I got a small painting by NB artist Derek Davidson of a market scene at the Fredericton farmer's market. Just the first gestural start in acrylic on canvas. I've been humming and hawing over what to do with it for weeks and it's now deadline time. After removing the canvas from the stretcher, drawing on the painting with pencil crayon and pen, cutting out the shapes of two individual figures and the cluster of people....I still couldn't see what I wanted to make from it when I realized it was crunch time this morning.

But I think I'm on the right track now: I'm going to make a market bag out of cotton canvas. I traced the horizon line of a market crowd using the cut outs of the figures from the painting like stencils. I dyed the canvas with onion skins (drying outside on the line right now), and I plan on embroidering the crowd horizontally across the cloth and then sewing it into a shoulder bag of some kind....
I got a small painting by NB artist Derek Davidson of a market scene at the Fredericton farmer's market. Just the first gestural start in acrylic on canvas. I've been humming and hawing over what to do with it for weeks and it's now deadline time. After removing the canvas from the stretcher, drawing on the painting with pencil crayon and pen, cutting out the shapes of two individual figures and the cluster of people....I still couldn't see what I wanted to make from it when I realized it was crunch time this morning.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
birthday baby
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