Thursday, 12 April 2012

Arab Spring update

The upshot of all my making squares is :



I spread them out in my living room and was actually quite amazed at how many I had ... this was because I'd been putting them into a bag as I made them, and hadn't really registered how many there were.  I still have a few more to do - because I wanted to embroider them.

I wanted to see how they looked on the net and this was the outcome:



I am away this weekend visiting friends so will continue when I return.  Have put in my Final Show Proposal to BCU so am in good shape (I hope).

Went into Birmingham to the library as I wanted to check out whether there were any 'ethnic' elements to the countries on which I am focussing.  The research came up with just underlined what I've been doing.  There is no traditional Muslim dress and in North Africa the Berbers are the indigenous peoples spreading from Morocco and Algeria to Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. 

Then went to the BMAG to see the African Textile exhibit which was really interesting - put together by BCU textile students.

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Squares and more squares

I am surrounded by squares of all colours:


This is a bit of a production line - I've gone back into all my pictures and transferred the most suitable ones onto inkjet silk then applied them to my squares in a random fashion.  As you can see from the photograph I'm producing up to twenty at one time.  This is easier to do than separately.

This 'production line' has enabled me to produce alot of squares all of which are individual:



I am (in between sewing like mad over the Easter Break) looking at how I might put them together:



I thought if I put them together in 3 x 3 they could be manipulated into another pattern as they build into the 'quilt' hanging - they could be random or more structured:



I then wondered if they could be mounted on a background like net - maybe the title should be The Arab Spring Net Work.