Thursday, November 1, 2012

"From a Book" Art Show


The Out-of the-Box fibre artists invite you to visit the Stittsville Branch of the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) in the month of November to view their "From a Book" show. Inspired by stories, characters, titles, words, places and shapes found in books, artists have used a variety of techniques and materials to produce a delightful and diverse art show. Books that inspired this show include classic literature, mysteries, science fiction, natural science, children's books, and even Roget's Thesaurus. Quilting, beading, felting, embroidery, mixed media, sculpture, and surface design are among the techniques showcased.



Out-of-the-Box is a group of fibre artists who are passionate about creating innovative, thought-provoking fibre art, and promoting that art in the community. This is their second show at the Stittsville Branch. For more information, visit their website (www.out-of-the-box.org) or that of the Ottawa Public Library (www.biblioottawalibrary.ca). The Stittsville Branch is located at 1637 Stittsville Main Street.







Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Canada Beading Supply bead challenge

I belong to a group called Out of the Box in Ottawa.  We were given a challenge to create something using 75% of the materials given us from the Canada beading Supply


I chose turquoise and yellow silk along with turquoise and aqua beads

 I started by painting a piece of polyester cloth with aquarelle pencil crayons and after staring at the cloth for a long long time I found a dragon.  Much to my dismay, as I was embroidering his scales and ruff, I realised that the crappy piece of fabric wasn't going to cut it in the finished product.
So I cut out the dragon...it wasn't pretty...all those tips and toe nails!!! 

I have a wonderful scarf that I cut up to become the background for my dragon.  I will NEVER make the mistake of starting something on a less then appropriate piece of cloth!

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Slowly but surely, my old website   www.fibreartbywendo.com is going to be redirected to my blog.  I've added a flirt page and a needle felting page (sorry about the waywardness of the kit images...I can't seem to cut and paste them in a nice neat order!)
Soon I'll have transfered all my webpages over and then I can actually begin updating!
Thanks for your patience!

I'm back after all this time.....

Hey there!  Past time I came back!  I'm trying to redirect my website to my blog and thus actually keep it up to date....please bear with me as I'm new at this and it's frustrating to even figure out which password and username I had