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Author Archives: Margaret Ford
Natural Dyeing from the Greengrocer
Artistic inspiration, always an elusive commodity for me, has left the building over the past week. It’s rainy and cold: it’s soup weather here in Western Australia. So my inner Earth Mother must have kicked in. Why not add a … Continue reading
Yarn Dyeing: Buyer Beware
Last weekend I went to a fibre fair in a rural town. Although i love dyeing my own yarns, especially with plants, I couldn’t resist buying some skeins of 70:30 merino:silk yarn dyed by hand by the seller with what … Continue reading
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Blue/citrus scarf
A month since my last blog and there’s not much to report. Stash-busting has sat alongside stash acquisitions, unfortunately. The Stitch and Craft Fair here in Perth was a great and unresisted temptation as Prudence Mapstone came over with a … Continue reading
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Red-Orange Scarf
Yarn stash-busting is required. The red yarns in particular have outgrown their drawers and baskets. I got them together. Well possibly not all of them; there is always the likelihood of finding a colony that has established itself elsewhere in … Continue reading
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Textile Study Trip to China’s Guizhou Province: Part 2
On Sunday 18 Feb 2018, the second day of our textile adventure in China’s Guizhou province, we checked out of the Trade Point Hotel in Guiyang and began making our way by road via Leishan to Xiao Danjiang to see … Continue reading
Textile Study Trip to China’s Guizhou Province: Part 1
This is the first of several posts intended mainly for my own benefit as a record of a wonderful trip from Perth to Guizhou in China from 17 – 28 February 2018. The capital of Guizhou province is Guiyang. … Continue reading
Christmas gifts
Somehow the year is coming to a rapid end. Especially as I plan an overseas trip for the first three weeks of December! I don’t usually inflict my manipulations on people but this year I thought, probably in error, that … Continue reading
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Exhibition Opening 3: Catering- What Works?
The Story So Far Recapping the two previous blogs on this topic: serve 6-8 clean and tiny things per person over two hours. Inclusiveness It’s time to think about vegetarians, vegans, coeliacs, dairy intolerances, and whatever else manifests itself in a … Continue reading
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Exhibition Opening 2: Catering- How Much and What Not To Serve?
Picture this: It’s opening night and the best art piece in the show is a long, suspended, drift of silk, painstakingly resisted with stitch, and dyed in several dye baths. As it wafts on the currents of enthusiastically breathed oohs … Continue reading
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Exhibition Opening 1: should we serve food?
There’s nothing like Exhibition Opening Night (or Day). So you’re having an exhibition. You and the other exhibitors and their supporters will have been toiling away for ages. First you had to organise a space for the exhibition. (that’s a … Continue reading
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