MrsJonesMakes: Lace

Sunday, 13 January 2013

City and Guilds: Texture and Pattern

The third chapter: Texture and Pattern

So this is where it started getting interesting and I started to get to play around more. this also included a two day course with Kim Thittichai. I really enjoyed the course but needed to learn to relax more. I would love to do the course again and play around more, it turns out that soldering irons are quite fun.

My City and Guilds: Pattern Cutting which I did at IDC- Redditch.

Some of my experimenting with Kim Thittichai

Playing with cellophane, foils and an iron

Playing with Tyvek


My second day with Kim Thittichai

Experimenting with pattern

Overlapping lolly sticks with infill

Doodles based on zentangles

More pattern making

Creating a pattern from a photo: part one

Creating a pattern from a photo: part two

Second pattern from a photo: part one

Second pattern from a photo: part two

Second pattern from a photo: part three

Using lace to print onto paper- my favourite page

And because it is my favourite, here is a close-up

Another close-up

Printing lace onto fabric, painting lace and paper cutting lace

Looking at poppies in Norfolk

Taking the poppy idea and doing some embroidery

Printing onto old book pages and then embroidering over it

Close up of an embroidery

I hope that you have enjoyed seeing my first folder. I will look up upload the photos of my second folder, the one that focuses on the actual pattern cutting, very shortly.

Love,
Mrs Jones,
x

Monday, 30 April 2012

Lost in Lace

I wanted to write a quick blog about the exhibition that I went to see in Birmingham just before the wedding. It was a week after my contract at work had finished, I had two weeks until the wedding, the dress still wasn't finished, but, I knew that it was the last day of the exhibition so I treated myself to a day off and didn't regret it, the work was brilliant and so inspiring.

Below are a few of the highlights: