Change of Seasons
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This shawl was made for the 2000 Narrabri Art and Craft Exhibition. It is a reversible design using intarsia techniques and featuring luxury yarns, particularly for the centres of the flower pattern. Most of the yarn ends have been sewn in along the edges of the 'petal' blocks giving them stronger outlines. The ends of the centre yarns have been knotted to secure them, then let hang relatively free resembling stamens. |
Peaches and Cream
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Each November the Canberra Spinners and Weavers group has a retreat at Birragai, a residential camp at Tidbinbilla not far from Canberra. In 1998 I met Miriam Miller from Milton NSW there. Miriam is a wonderful fibre artist and she showed me the basics of the construction of her magnificent triangular and square shawls and rugs. I've used these ideas since in a range of pieces and I've called my version of the technique Once More From The Middle……..for no other good reason than that's where they start! This piece is square and was made using one of my all time favourite colour combinations. It was a great opportunity to sample and experiment with a whole lot of lacey stitches that I hadn't tried before. It was made for the regional Fibre Exhibition in Tamworth NSW in 1999. |
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Purples & Browns
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This is another Once More From the Middle piece………….this one a triangular piece in purples, browns, fawns and more, again one of my favourite combinations. These are hand knitted pieces and lend themselves well to combining yarns in what I think of as a 'micro' fashion. It involves building up compound bands row by row using a mix of colour and texture that blend so easily it becomes quite difficult to pick the individual yarns. Shown at the November 2000 Art Thread Design Exhibition. |
All Shades of Red
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There are some marvelous red yarns in my collection and they fall into combinations that I really like to work with. This Once More From the Middle triangular piece gave me the opportunity to play with many of the different reds via the patterns I was finding in old counterpane pattern books as well as some, by now well established, favourite stitches such as Little Leaf. There's a close up of part of this shawl in the Textures page. This piece was shown at Fibre Forum Mittagong 2001
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Barrier Reef Shawl
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The yarns for this shawl and a series of hats, including this one, had been building up in my collection for years. So many bright blues and greens and golds and goldish greens and greenish golds………..I'm sure you get the idea! And being born on the Aquarian Pisces cusp and having lived not too far from Cairns in North Queensland I suppose it's hardly surprising that the idea of the Barrier Reef came to mind very readily when the yarn collection could no longer be ignored! The technique used is Knitted Plush [Dot]. The shawl was made for the Art Thread Design exhibition in Autumn 2000. |
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The Heavens
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The second in a new series using the Knitted Plush [Dot] idea was inspired predominantly by the yarns………….I was lucky to have a particularly vibrant set of yarns available at the time, mostly golds, purples, maroons and dark blues. And as many of them were very glitzy yarns the idea of stars and galaxies came to mind readily. This picture shows the informal side of the shawl - there's more detail of both this side and the formal side on the Textures page. Shown at Fibre Forum Mittagong 2001 |