moon ladders go with the flow

moon ladders made with boar bristles and linen thread for the River of Moons
a little escapism
making sense of the flow
with a different perspective
my favourite so far
all 13 moons are basted down now ready to go with the flow between now and August
with gratitude to Glennis Shibori Girl, Ulrike Bogdan and Jude Hill

Dancing in the Moonlight

the Queen of the Night dancing in the moonlight
and the summer rain
in full flight for this Full Moon night
the river of moons starting to gather shape
with more stitching
a balancing act
touching the edge of the New Moon for January next year, have a good one!

with gratitude to Glennis Shibori Girl, Ulrike Bogdan and Jude Hill

Go with the flow… a river of moons marking time

Go with the flow… a river of moons marking time…  WIP Mo20
at each New Moon I stitch in the next moon in this year of marking time
there’s a rhythm rolling back and forth with each new moon turning the story
here’s a link to the WIP widdershins

with gratitude to Glennis Shibori Girl, Ulrike Bogdan and Jude Hill

mending

time to mend my favourite old sweater from 30 years ago
it’s thick t-shirt material but getting very thin in places, so I reverse appliqued with stretch lace and wound yarn
mending the seams & worn edges
it’s so thin like the ever mending of Old Man Crow’s old denim jacket for now it’s good to go just in time for winter here in the Land Down Under

Leonie Andrews Open Stitches project

a 10cm (4″) x 10cm (4″) square of Deb Lacativa’s magical hand dyed cloth with couched thread also by Deb Lacativa
I stopped stitching just in time to leave a 10cm tail of thread for Leonie Andrews Open Stitches project
the other side
I look forward to seeing where Leonie takes it!

A Fishy Necklace for Trudy

A Fishy Necklace by Mo 18
a very late birthday present
Trudy wears it well!

Honesty playing with variations on the theme

Honesty Mo 17
Honesty pod, indigo dyed paper, vintage leather, indigo dyed cotton & silk, thread, gouache and ink
Honesty in process
and a new one in process will be adding to this post each day until Saturday when it will be ready to take along to the Bookwerke artist book group at the NSW Guild of Craft Bookbinders
playing with the blues in ink, silk and raw cotton & replaced the moon with some rotted silk and indigo dyed linen
more indigo ink & white gouache backed with watercolour paper to settle the wrinkles
9 passionfruit vine tendrils stitched to the moon with indigo dyed silk, a bit more gouache and ink and 3 vintage white glass beads to define the shoreline, it’s very close to done will have another look tomorrow morning
Honesty for Bookwerke Zine 50 shades of creativity Mo17
H19.5 cm x W13.3 cm
Honesty pod, passionfruit vine tendrils, indigo dyed silk, cotton & linen thread, cord & paper, vintage glass beads, gouache & ink on Arches watercolour paper
the other side

testing the making of a blue moon

a small stitched blue suede leather moon, synthetic interface and papier maché mold formed over the old Starry Container, one of my first glass engravings on slumped glass from back in 1987
glued down & drying under the weight of the lid of the Starry Container, the acrylic interface was invisibly basted to prevent the paste from damaging the surface of the suede
there was some leakage…  next time I will use a 50:50 mix of starch paste and PVA more sparingly, this was straight acid free PVA brushed on with enthusiasm at 3am, worth a try
the big papier maché moon needs trimming, a few more layers of paper & then sanding before pasting down Once in a Blue Moon
I learned a lot, this is going to work but need to get some more starch paste, it extends the working time of the PVA and is kinder to the materials and my hands
going to Birdsall Leathercraft in Botany on Wednesday to buy a 50m roll of 1.5mm black round leather cord for the dark side of the moon & will have a chat to them about what is the best glue to use for pasting suede

finished stitching for the Winter Solstice

Once in a Blue Moon Mo 17
27cm D moon stitched with vintage Cintax mercerized sewing cotton on vintage blue suede from the 80’s
stitching detail
today I will have a go at making a papier mache mold in my iron wok to dome the leather & Old Man Crow (who is much better at mathematics than I am) worked out I will need 38 metres of 1.5 mm of round black leather cord or 57metres of 1mm round black leather cord to stitch a spiral basket form for the dark side of the moon
enjoy the Solstice wherever you are
Magic Days!

Once in a Blue Moon – week 3 & 1/2

Once in a Blue Moon in process week 3 & 1/2 Mo17
stitching is helping me find some sort of sense of sanity in amongst all the lunacy…
this is a very strange year for our beautiful broken world