Prams/Toys

To cut a long story very short after lockdown lifted I threw all my toys out of my pram and have since been very slowly considering what to put back. This is easier now people aren’t insisting I keep things i don’t want.

I have been making stuff. And I intend to back post some of the more interesting stuff in the weeks/months to come.* ( i even have a list of all the Wednesdays I haven’t posted.)

Mainly I have been volunteering with a local group that raises money for local charities. They make things and either donate them to the charity or sell them for cold hard cash.
As the autumn is coming up we are getting ready for Winter Warmers and our xmas sales. Just the thing for the resent heat wave…

A shawl from donated yarn

• this will no doubt be very confusing for future people scrolling in chronological posting order

Taking advantage of the heat to do some sampling

EDIT 22sept

Finished shawl being blocked. Edge length 1 metre.

MER

Ps. It looks like my laptop top is too geriatric to run wordpress so we shall see how long i manage posting on my phone …

Small samples

I wanted to do some sampling before I moved on to making the plates for my big flower type things. Some of the other printers use all sorts of DIY materials to make their plates and so I thought I’d use some of the things i was discovering in the cupboards. A while ago i’d used whiting and acrylic medium*, but i wanted to try something which would create even more of a relief effect. Unfortunately the box labeled filler in the cupboard wasn’t what everyone else using.

A bit of an obsession!

Who am I kidding this is all back story: last year I was crocheting hyperbolic surfaces and came across a video for branching hyperbolic crochet. Which leads long-story-short to the thing which I am mainly making now – a form that branches, that may or may not be a fractal and may end up consuming all my yarn budget before I put a stake through its heart. Or,          …shiny!

I ent dead

And here’s a painting to prove it

Revisions

Not that ive actually managed to post about my finalized mars print, but ive decided i really dont like it. Its not me.

So im going for something a bit different:

Just a first sketch, proof of concept type thing. Not total thrown the baby out with the bath water, just…

MER

There were Dragons

Well I guess I can post this now that I’ve heard that I’m not in the exhibition.

Printing this monster was a pain in the behind. Hopefully Ive learned by ‘lets not be over ambitious’ lesson this time.

Upcycling – Part 2

The plot thickens. Or maybe it’s just the overall level of confusion and wilful ignorance.

Losing the Plot (a bit)

I’ve been struggling with the star charts, and so they have fallen away somewhat while i’ve dealt with all the other projects I’ve managed to involve my self with. It’s taken awhile to get everything sorted out it my head let alone on paper, so this is why this post is being written in January even though the problem arose in November.*

Editioning

Here’s the third state which I started editioning. I’ve learnt not be too greedy and try and print too many at a time, because you will start making mistakes.

 

I’ve added more tone and detail.

MER

Mmm. Shiny… Squirrel!!

Last week I moved the last of my stuff out of storage. (anyone one want a two draw red file cabinet?)

This has given me access to all sorts of projects that have been on hold for a while. (some notes are dated 2008. (at least they are dated.))

I’ve been thinking on so many things that I’ve been struggling with my words. I’ve a number of big posts I’ve been trying to shape into something coherent over the last few weeks but no luck (luck! sheer hard work) yet. Probably because there are too many ideas in a single sentence.

So I wouldn’t be starting anything new, any time soon. Just trying to reinforce and regroup what i all ready know/do. Which is probably too much anyway.

Yet to let you know I haven’t disappeared completely into the August haze.

 

MER