Friday 1st October was the first day of Level 3, so I thought I'd add a quick post about how things went.
In the end 10 of us were enrolled, although it's a mixture of those doing the 'old-style' Level 3 and those like me doing the 'new-style', and those only doing the 'advanced level' and those like me paying the extra to be registered for it to be a proper certificated C&G Level 3 Award. In real terms we shouldn't notice too much difference from class to class as our tutor, Trisha Forshaw, plans to make each session rather like an individual workshop.
Anyway, this time around we were all busy playing with silk fibres in their various forms to make paper, or perhaps more accurately fibrous layers, to add to our portfolio of samples and potential ideas for incorporation in our finished wall hangings. We were all very industrious, producing samples from fibres that still contained gum in the morning, and more using those fibres without the gum so requiring the addition of textile medium in the afternoon. Here are pictures of the samples I made:
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| Natural and green dyed gummed silk fibres ironed together |
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| Gummed silk fibres and dyed silk fibres ironed together |
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| Gummed silk fibres stitched with silk embriodery thread, ironed to blend together |
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| Strips of gummed pressed silk 'rods' woven with other fibres and ironed |
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| Ungummed fibres + textile medium |
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| Ungummed fibres + textile medium |
So there we are, the results of some fun and fibre!
I'm off on the coach to the Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace next Saturday, so hopefully will add an entry for some highlights - couldn't possibly include all! - of what I see there.
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