School show and sale was a success! I only had two pieces in the exhibition, the striped felt hat/hood I did earlier and the backpack gourd/pocket strap object. Everyone had very nice work.

In the next semester I'll take more design courses, and also textile history, felting pt.2, pattern construction/design, and weaving. I think it ends in April, but I haven't decided what to do with myself after that. Have to wait and see!

decided some photos were in order here...

1- printing with natural dyes/ this one is a print using madder (madder root, in tannin form), on a wash from pomegranate

2- the indigo dye vat for natural blue. has to be closely maintained to ensure it stays healthy- it even has a designated caretaker!

3- colour run of natural dyes on cotton

4- collages in design class

5- final project in progress (remember the backpack gourd?)


Classes are going really well, and a lot of other things have been happening outside of them too. I got some really great library books: Japanese houses and patterns, interior design for small spaces, origami, etc. I signed up to volunteer at the spca here in town (only a short walk from my work), I got a couple of extra shifts this week at work, I went to the transgender day of remembrance a short while ago, my aunt's birthday was held last weekend. So much to do still!

Height of it all though was playing with the cats on tuesday past, during lunch hour. There are two big cat rooms that you can go in and just sit with them, and you can also take cats out of their cages (the ones who aren't in the rooms). There were five kittens, four black ones in one section and a tiny white/patch one in another- and they ran all over the place!

Ahem, back to art: The school show at the end of the semester is also approaching fast, and I'm really striving to get my final piece (#5) finished for the exhibition. I'm also putting in my major felt project (striped hat) and maybe some other felt things. I would love to have something for the sale, but I don't think it's going to happen until the end of the year, if the option is available then as well. Too busy making other things for some very special and well- missed people ^_^