The cuckoo arrived on Saturday in this part of the Vendee, so it really must be spring. The weather has been fabulous with wall to wall to sunshine, although a sneaky chilly wind has made its presence felt.
Last Thursday it was a group meeting of the Saving Graces group. This is a group of 4 textile artists who meet up once a month to hold a workshop and then work on the techniques covered and produce some work for the next meeting. Di travels from Paris either by car or train, Annie, Gloria and myself all live in the Vendee so travelling is no problem for us. We formed the group as a result of all following the web textile classes - Workshop on the Web. The meeting this time was held a Gloria's house and we looked at Transfoiling and producing a piece of fabric that could be used for making a shrine, box or bag. Great fun was had by us all and we had a thoroughly enjoyable day. The previous meeting had been based on the Maggie Grey free classes on line and we brought the finished products of our experimentation using gesso, shrink plastic etc. As a fun piece for the meeting we all worked on a small blank canvas and as you will see by the photo posted all the pieces were different. (The reason there are 5 pieces, not 4 as there are 4 of us, is Di could not work singly she had to have a pair).
I am having difficulty posting the photos of my altered book as it insists on positioning them the wrong way round. I will have to keep working on them and try to post them the right way round.
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