Laying out her bird design with sari silk bits and pencil roving.
H's finished pillow.
Laying out her scarf with striped silk and a
glitzy art batt.
L's finished scarf.
Two of my daughters made projects in June...
...for which I was merely
consultant and occasional assistant! Grin.
H wanted to make an accent pillow for her dorm room...
...and decided to use pencil roving and sari silk waste for the design.
She is a wonderful representational artist with a sure style and process...
...so I mostly kept well out of her way! :)
Unfortunately, she didn't take into account the need for a border around her design...
...and she's a little disappointed that the beak seems to disappear into the pillow edge...
...but I think it's quite nice.
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My other daughter wanted to try a quick project, and travels a lot...
...in fact, she's been in Norway the entire month of July with a group of young children at a 'peace camp'.
(You can imagine how my heart skipped a beat last week when I first heard the news...
...and although I now know that she and all of her charges are safe...
...how I
grieve for those other children and families!)
She thought that a nuno scarf would be a fun and useful thing to try...
...and she chose the striped silk that I used for
this messenger bag.
She added fiber from a wonderful art batt that my friend,
Linda, brought me when she visited...
...and made a quite festive and feminine scarf.
I think that the rather stiff texture of the striped silk that leant itself so well to the bag...
...resulted in a scarf that feels a little 'crunchy'...
...but it
is lovely, and it will be quite nice in the fall, wrapped around the collar of a thin jacket.
