A journal where I share my adventures developing a food forest based on permaculture principles. I also share my love of knitting here. For my life as a textile artist follow me at lesleyturnerart.com
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Installation Progress
Reluctantly, I have altered the bed sheets. Each sheet will hang from a wooden beam threaded through the top hem. The hem pocket needed to be wider to accommodate the beam.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Are you going to be in London in June?
If you are going to be in London in June you might like to catch this grad show.
There will be the work of 10 students, 3 Canadians: Ingrid Lincoln, Judy Martin & me, Monika Brueckner from Germany, and from the UK: Val Cross, Vikki Jenkins, Marilyn Hall, Denise Jones, Jean Kirk and Caroline Hibbs
BA (Hons) Embroidered Textiles
Graduate Show 2012
The Grove Atrium Gallery
Hendon Campus, Middlesex University
NW4 4BT UK
Wednesday 20th June 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Thursday 21st to Sunday 24th June 10:00 - 4:00 pm
For directions and map go to www.mdx.ac.uk
Monday, April 30, 2012
Outside
During breaks from stitching I wander outside.
Hyacinths (spelling?) break through coffee filter mulch in the cut flower bed.
According to Pojar and MacKinnon, the plant bible on the west coast, it is a red flowering currant, a "harbinger of spring and hummingbirds."
In the bog area that looked like this 6 months ago after my sister cleared out a tangled mass of 20 foot long blackberry canes....
Friday, April 27, 2012
Technical Issues
While stitching I had to resolve technical issues involved in hanging the 4 tree cloths.
Husband Ron understands material and joint stresses.
He sampled various corner joints for the frame. I made the aesthetic decisions.
Using Douglas-fir wood supports the work's concepts.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Pollen Moon
April was 'Pollen Moon' because the Douglas-fir released great clouds of yellow-orange pollen from young bright-orange cones high in the trees. This image is of an old Douglas-fir cone.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Trialling the Installation
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Maple Tree Cloth Repairs
The Maple tree cloth's Battenberg lace deteriorated and was not able to support it so it came inside for repairs.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Storm Moon Colour Studies
I called February's new moon 'Rain Moon'.
March wind and rain storms were memorable so I called it 'Storm Moon'.
The trees had responded to longer and warmer days.
Peeling Arbutus bark was drying and colours greyed.
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