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This project coordinated by the arts team at the City of Greater Bendigo is up on line.
As well as having submitted works, my small handmade ‘happy’ piece is featured as the banner.
Love for you to check it out and give feedback
Bill and I are fortunate to be able to walk to the bush for exercise during these isolation times.
Today we took our camera gear with us and spotted prickly wattle, greenhood orchids and a tiny red flower with spiny succulent type leaves.
Dodgems 2020 style
Well today Bill and I ventured forth for our grocery shopping.
It was our first time since the required 1.5 metre distance between people had been announced.
I was anxious to be honest.
After a while I found myself skirting around others, some of whom did not seem to be aware or worried about this distance.
One chap, wearing a mask, seemed not to worry about the distance at all as he barged through the required space formed by ourselves and another shopper.
Ironic thought I.
By the time we had ended our shopping expedition I had mentally made a challenge of dodging people, almost saying Brrrm brrrm as I did so, as if I was driving a little dodgem car.
One way to keep oneself amused in these time I guess!
My friend Kerry has a lovely contemporary fold over bag.
It is something I have admired for some time but couldn’t justify buying as I really don’t need a new bag.
However my mind changed last week when we all went had into self isolation and I began to look for more things to do at home.
In my studio I was sorting through my small stock of floral fabric and found a piece of cotton/silk that was too small for a scarf or cushion but too valuable to discard.
Kerry’s fold over bag came to mind and so I accessed youtube for ‘how to’ patterns to make one.
Using two videos from Yoan Sewing Studio as well as a book I have by English bag maker, Debbie Shore, ‘Half Yard Bags and Purses, 2018, Search Press I proceeded to nut out the bag. I wanted a zipper closure at the top and decided to really test myself and added a zipper inside pocket as well as some extra pockets for a phone etc.
As well as my cotton/silk piece I used (from my plain coloured fabric stash) some red cotton fabric for the lining and some gorgeous boiled wool in black to sew onto the small piece of my cotton/silk fabric design.
It ended up taking me over a week, some days working on it for several hours and other days just an hour before dinner.
In the end I am happy with it and look forward to the day when I can wear it out.
While we are all minimising our time in stores for shopping, online shopping (so far) is still on.
So what do you do with the parcel when it is dropped at your door?
We have established a plastic cube box as our ‘quarantine box’ just in case.
We are picking up the delivery from our front door, using a tissue or similar and placing the parcel in this box.
The box is stored in a spare room and we note in our diary when we received it.
We won’t touch it now for at least 48 hours…
You may think this is being over cautious, but for us it is an added peace of mind.
What are your quarantine ideas?
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In these challenging times, we are going to create an online exhibition as a way of sharing work and encouraging art-making.
The aim each week will be to program a diverse exhibition, showing a variety of artistic expression. We need work that can be put in an online gallery so we’re after a single still image (jpg) – it can be a photograph, a photograph of an artwork or a digital image and you may include text.
We encourage all artists living, working or studying in the City of Greater Bendigo to participate.
We’d love as many people to get involved as possible – so if you’re young or someone who hasn’t exhibited before we’d encourage you to send something in.
The gallery will be curated by the team at Creative Communites, Bendigo Venues & Events
There’s no theme, and the only limit is that we’re after work created recently – ideally within the past week.
To apply:
Please pass this invitation on to anyone who might be interested.
We’re still getting the web page prepared – it will be part of the Bendigo Venues & Events website. We’ll also include the selected artwork in an email each week. For the time being we’re going to limit what we post on social media – we appreciate that at this time many people are avoiding social media sites – and we respect that.
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First Poncho, just in time for autumn
Inspired by my recent trip to the Paris end of Collins Street I finished sewing my dark navy poncho today.
Originally the design was to include some of my floral silk fabric.
However struggling with how to blend the two fabrics in a pleasing way, I decided to make the poncho with the wool blend only.
So glad I did as it fits well and will go with a range of my scarf designs, not being limited to the one colour.
I am delighted to let you know the wonderful historic Buda at Castlemaine is now stocking my art works.
Thank you to Viv and the team for this support, I appreciate it.
