These Little Piggies went to the market..... at the Hybrid Stylist in Birkenhead. I made these out of upholstery fabric samples given to me from Wendy at Calder Interiors also in Birkenhead. Annie Oxborough is in charge of the Hybrid Sylist who is one of our newest retailers in the old Highbury shopping area and contributing to the eclectic mix of fashion, giftware and eateries. Worth a visit to Hinemoa Street to check out her beautiful flowers and fabulous retro products.....and my pigs. www.hybridstylist.co.nz

Turkish Delight and Gel Medium Transfers

Very happy with the Gel Medium transfers I tried.  After a miserable trip to the print shop where they were supposed to print on to my Lasertran , they eventually printed some Byzantine images onto normal paper.  The Lasertran melted onto their printing cylinder despite my plea's to ensure that the printer was suitable enough.  I wanted to avoid the Gel Medium technique because I believed it to be too fiddly.  Anyway, that was all I had and the results are wonderful.  

I had rusted A4 scrap paper in an old baking tin and stitiched it to Lutradur for firmness.  I had run out of pelmet vilene which would have been my first choice.  GM applied, image face down, burnish till the air bubbles had gone and start removing the backing paper.  I tried after it had dried and while it was still wet and got similar results.  yes, it was messy but I quite enjoyed it.  The paper tore and moved a couple of times but lent an aged look to the whole thing.  Library images I photocopied were just not as clear and using the mirror image selector would have helped with images of maps and words.  Next time!  I love the way the image layers well with the text from the scrap paper and the rust.   I think this works rather than gluing the image down which would not be transparent at all.

Rust never Sleeps

The 1st piece in my 'Rust' series.  Two years ago 'Shore Thing' created a piece called 'Proverbial Quilt'.  It was a blanket covered with strips of bias binding that has proverbs or sayings or old wives tales written on them and attached with a big coloured button and embroidery cotton.  The back revealed the lengths of bright cotton and the front resembled an old Maori cloak.  A pen was attached to allow people to write on the blank pieces of tape.  It was a fun, interactive piece.  This year, we disassembled the piece and selected one of the pieces of tape as inspiration to make another piece ... mine was 'Rust Never Sleeps'.  My mind map went from rust to rusty vehicles to relating the rusty vehicle bodies to human bodies and the effect of ageing on the human mind.   

Postcards

So, the idea is to highlight the image you want to upload.  Copy and Paste to an open document, I used Word.  Email it to yourself.  That changed the image to a Png format.  I dragged the image from email onto the desktop and uploaded it the Blog from there.

POST Stitch - Lopdell House Titirangi

I have learnt how to upload an image from a PDF file.  Now I will try and upload the other two postcards that were exhibited at Lopdell House using the same method.  This postcard was sold.