Working from a photo of Karen's lovely tapestry, I decided to touch on some of the colours and try to do a representation of some of the visual textures in the background. I decided to use the M's and O's weave structure in somewhat random spacing. I used multiple Texture off-white yarn as my ‘background’ and then did stripes of some of the tapestry colours, also in a “somewhat” random pattern. My goal was to weave yardage for a shirt, but I found it a bit more Vibrant than I intended. However, I think it may just be perfect as a Swimsuit cover-up!. I also like the fact that I turn Karen’s snowy Scene into something that can be worn to the Beach. I then passed The photo of my item on to Melissa.

Being second on the line, I didn't have the challenge of setting the direction of the team. I got to tweak it and that was the fun part. Being practical by nature I made something useful. I I had a cheap vase from the Dollar Store which was the perfect size for a big bunch of posies but looked awful when the stems got chunky. It needed a cover! Out came the felting fleece and I waited for inspiration from Anna Stoloova. When I saw her wonderful tea towels in magenta and green I was so happy with the and started night away! The rest was easy peasy, colours and dye fleece, make a resist, get some exercise bashing the thing around and finish with a few felted flowers for trim It was great fun and yes, I use it. It not only works for flowers but also as a great wine bottle insulator.

When I saw the photo of Norma's item i immediately thought of a landscape. The blue made me think of water, the green of trees

and the light yellow-green with flowers as trim-an alpine meadow .

I liked Norma's idea of making a useful vessel so i decided to do

the same but I would make mine using silk fusion instead of felting .

These initial thoughts formed the basis of my alpine meadow lantern.

I was fourth in a line of five people to be inspired by a previous

person's textile project. I am a spinner, so it follows that a project

that I created would be yam that was influenced by the previous

person's colour choices and the visual texture of her finished

project. The use of primary colours in the felted landscape piece determined my colour choices. Visually, the landscape appears very

soft and lofty. The felted landscape inspired me to create yarns for children's sweaters, particularly the yellow. The very fine blue yarn

would make a lacy shawl or baby bonnet.

For the challenge I used a new (to me) weaving structure Halvdral. I wanted more texture in the fabric and needed to work on my selvedges - so my first attempt is now the two pouches. To get more texture, I used a fifty year old cone of silk noil for the pattern weft and 2/8 cotton for the tabby and wove a table runner for the Telephone Game. With the remaining warp I used 2/8 cotton boucle for the pattern weft. The boucle provides textures for the square.

I eat blueberries almost everyday at breakfast. One morning I took a close-up photo of the berries on my bowl of cereal. Then the telephone challenge came along and looking through the photo I had on my cell phone for inspiration I came across the picture I had taken previously. Well I happen to like the colour purple and blueberries. Now to decide on what to do; needle felt blueberries no, spin purple no, weave purple yes! I found this pattern in VaV magazine, that was it! I always weave the first one for me as a big sampler. I tweaked the edges and wove 9 teatowels. I sent off my picture of the tea towel to the next person in the group.

When I saw Ruth's piece it reminded me of how much i like simple weaving with a dramatic effect. I also love the log cabin weave structure which looks wonderfully complex. The effect is produced by using colour and weave rather than a complicated weaving progression. I had a table runner pattern that I was interested in trying and I am pleased with the result.

This bag is made with Fibonacci based stripes. The white stripes are 1,2 and 3 picks wide, the black stripes are 3, 5, and 8 picks wide. Hints of red come from the Safeway bags.

Double Weave with Wool

Out of the dark , light and colour appear to bring hope and optimism.

Bumblebee - automation (simple machine) 2021

Felted wool, machine applique, wood and wire mechanism, wood base From the sheltered nests hidden in the trunks of underground burrows , a Bumblebee Queen will emerge from hibernation in early spring to look for a suitable place to build her new colony. Their plump fuzzy abdomens are quite distinctive and will require a lot of warming up in order to become airborne when spring outdoor temperatures are still cool.

Brood X - automation (simple machine) 2021

Felted wool, machine applique, wood and wire mechanism, wood base. The spring of 2021 was marked by the emergence of the Brood X cicada. Every 17 years, Brood X cicada nymphs will tunnel upwards and emerge from the surface of the ground where they shed their exoskeletons and become adults. Within the following few weeks mature cicadas fly, mate, lay eggs and die. The brood's next major emergence is predicted to occur in 2038.

The colour wheel shows the relationship between colours- including hues, tints and shades, but usually sits passively in the corner of the studio, for reference if all else fails. By weaving around the colour wheel, with each hue giving three places to show itself, I was able to establish it firmly in my mind and entered it purposefully in my art.

Indigo dyeing, cotton

Like the pandemic, it was a lesson in

Perseverance

Patience, and

Willingness to pivot and try something new

And yes, sometimes you are

tied in knots and

twisted into unrecognisable shapes and

feel like you have no idea what the end result will be.

But

the moment eventually comes- the reveal-

when the transformation is complete and

you see and exult in the results of your efforts

Wet felted on resists. Needle felted eyes by I. Paquette.

More details to be added

More details to be added

Linen, cotton, banana yarn

It was late January when i received my inspiration for the telephone game. It featured two woven wheels, one in red and one in blue. They were hung outside in the artists's cold January yard. I wove two scarves, one in red and one in blue, to go out and see the artworks for myself.

Cotton warp and wool weft, tapestry weaving Keeping a lively Facetime conversation over the internet during the pandemic. Here are three generations of my family, residing in faraway cities.

Watercolour

Colour study in purple, orange, green.

Colour study in red, yellow, blue.

Wool on cotton, Theo Moorman technique

Colour study with different materials

Wool on cotton, Theo Moorman technique

Colour study with different materials

Wool on cotton, Split shed weaving technique

Wool knitting

Dropping stitches in your knitting is the cause of much anxiety

when you learn to knit .Knitting holes in your knitting on purpose

is very therapeutic that is after overcoming your anxieties.

Cotton, cottolin, woven

Inspired by a garment in the window at Lammie's store.

When Covid hit, I decided it was TIME for a personal CHALLENGE.

I wanted to create an artistic, western-style wrap that reflected

my love of turquoise jewellery, western style and twill threading.

I created this ruana from cotton and cottolin yarn, adopting a

pattern from the book Twill Thrills. I finished the neckline with an

inkle woven band and conches to give it a Western Canada look.

I hope to wear it soon when my social life returns to normal!

50/50 cotton and linen, deflected double weave

Inspired by: Handwoven March April 2020

I had always wanted to attempt a deflected double weave piece and I leamed a lot from this one! For starters, I should have used singles as the finished item is too stiff for a shawl and so it has become my November Dining Room table runner.

Also because the yarn is slubby it was a very sticky warp requiring that I clean the shed at every change A long slow weaving project, but the end result is still pleasing and reminds me of the prairies in November before they are covered with snow.