Soy Wax Film Set - Day Two

Just as we've been known to change our clothes to suit the occasion, so does the film set need to change based on what I might be demonstrating for the DVD.

In the course of one day, we had three 'wardrobe changes". This was for the Thickened Dyes segment, lots of rich colour and texture!

The next set was Soy Wax with DeColorant Plus, coloured discharge paste!

And the finally, Soy wax with Dye Na Flow and Setacolor paints and sunprinting!

More excitment coming tomorrow, stay tuned! Same Soy Wax time, same Soy Wax channel!

Soy Wax film Set - Day One

I'm am now totally in awe of film crews and their enormous amount of knowledge and experience! I'm sure I wouldn't know the difference between a blue or green shadow being cast onto a wall! I didn't know there were memory card specifically for film cameras! Wow, there is so much to learn and I'm having a blast.
If you didn't know already, Andrew Galli of www.gallifilms.com is in Victoria to film a DVD with me on Soy Wax Resists. Here's a sneak preview of the cover:

 

Isn't it beautiful?

 

My studio now resembles a movie set, cameras (two, one for the overall pictures and one for close-ups), computers, three large lights, wires and more wires, a green screen (actually, the back side of the green screen) and best of all: a clapper - more about that later!

Here's one shot of my studio and equipment:

 

 

Here's the set from another angle:

 



 

Here's the set, ready for one of the segments:

 

 

Now, here's the most fun of all:

 

Me, with the clapper! Scene One, Take One!

 

 



One Word Wednesday

Soft

Quilters Calendar - For Teachers and Students

I just listed my teaching schedule on The Quilter’s Calendar - a brand new site for quilters and guilds to find traveling quilt teachers on. By sharing my schedule on the searchable calendar increases my opportunities to receive “piggy back” bookings to my engagements. While you are there, submit your photo, bio and tags (free!) to make it easier for guilds and students to find you. Get Listed at www.quilters-calendar.com  

 

One Word Wednesday

Shredded

Books on Sunday

Following along with my Books on Sunday theme of colour, I pulled The Painted Quilt by Laura and Linda Kemshall from my book shelf. The Kemshalls are known for the online courses at Design Matters and a popular sereis of instructional DVD's.

The Painted Quilt is a blend of practical instruction and expert guidance to help the reader explore their creativity do design and produce unique painted quilts with confidence. We often think the quilting part to be a the last layer that we add to our work. Consider instead that colour and texture can be combined with paints, pens, pastels, dyes and more to produce intricate effects on the surface. these ideas give us much to think and experiment with.....
ISBN9870715324509

One Word Wednesday

Ochre

New Thermofax Screens

I've just uploaded two new Thermofax designs to my shop. I think they're just plain fun designs and would make awesome backgrounds for additional designs overlaid on top.
You can buy them in three sizes HERE

 

This one is called Circle Grid - you can guess why!

And this one is ET Script - where I imagined what ET's handwriting may have looked like if he had to write a letter home instead of phoning!
Don't forget that every screen also comes with its own little scraper. Ready for you to have fun!

Three More Great Blogs

Well, I moved my computer into my quilting studio and this may or may not be a good thing. sometimes it gives me a 'come thither' look and I just have to break away and check my email for the 12th time. But sometimes I find some really great things and if I'd waited another 10 minutes they might have disappeared!
So in no particular order I discovered three blogs that I'm sure you'll want to check out!
http://www.gericondesigns.com/weblog/ 
Gerrie Congdon and I are Facebook friends and I find her posts to be light an fun, just a little peek into her life and how her day is going. You'll want to check her blog out and then see where else her links might lead you!
http://thetextileblog.blogspot.ca/
This blog has some amazing historical information on textiles, embroidery and more. Its a rich resource and I am going to be ordering some of the ebooks for download. They are a bargain, especially since shipping from Britian can be a bit pricey! Have a look and tell me what you think.
http://andsewitgoes.blogspot.ca/
Terry Grant is another well known textile and quilt artist, currently living in Oregon. You've got to check out the pictures of her purpose built studio, its amazing and if I hadn't just done renovations of my own, I'd be borrowing some of ter ideas!

So thats it for another little while, I hope you ahve fun with these blogs, send me some links of others you've enjoyed......

More Shattered Angles

Last week I spent two lovely days on Mayne Island with the Quilt Guild. The weather was typical west coast (meaning it was raining with brief interruptions of raining really hard)! But there was lots of action in the Agriculture Hall when 16 dedicated quilters took my Shattered Angles class one day and my Give & Take Applique class the following day.
Great fun was had by all, especially me!

Quilters are gathered around the Shattered Angles blocks they made. Such a bright assortment of colours!

 

Creativity abounds when the quilters learn how to make Give & Take Applique blocks.

Thanks for such a wonderful trip!