© Carolyn Saxby - Love Stitching Red

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Valentine's Day Giveaway!

I'm having a giveaway on Love Stitching Red






















Hop over to LOVE STITCHING RED and tell me about your favourite childhood book to be in with a chance of winning Valentine's Day goodies and "Pass the Book". The winning name will be pulled on Valentine's Day!

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Dreaming












D
reaming ...

a little piece of art only one inch square for the
"alphabet inchie challenge"

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Distressed planet Earth in textiles















Just a quick post with photos of my distressed piece completed this week















The piece represents the rising tide element of global warming ... melting ice pushing water levels up combined with distress. I used distressed materials to represent distress caused by global warming, distress to our planet, looking particularly at distressed holes and layers, perhaps holes in our ozone layer which is a contributing factor to climate change















I describe the process in the previous post. On top of my distressed fabrics I have added irridescent snowflakes and french knots in a thick variegated rayon ribbon, cotton threads and metallic threads















I was thinking of adding even more detail to the surface embellishment with more french knots and beads but I think they would be lost in the piece, which is already full of irridescent shimmeryness, colours and textures















Distressed planet Earth




















































I'm really pleased with the watery (and earthy) colours and textures in the piece