Making Pouches
This began as an exercise in using stiffened fabric to make pouches with eyelet custom eyelet holes. I had been to the thrift shop and found some white fabric but didn’t realise till I got home that the fabric was laminated heat fabric. i began just using the fabric to practice the eyelets which are made by winding light wire around a pencil and then buttonholing over the wire into a small hole cut in the centre.
I hadn’t intended to make these in such striking stark simplicity but I thought about trying some stencils a friend had given me that featured NZ flora. c to paint really well so I decided to contine in my little series. I will probably add a chain through the eyelets. There are a matching pair of eyelets on the back of the pouches. I have squared off the bottom corners and will probably use these to place so walk pickup in the pouches - like seedpods for the various stencils
What is my current Textile Focus
My interest in textile art is wide and varied. My focus at the moment is on completing panels for my scholarship project Parallels in Maori and Celtic customs and art. I am currently working on a Tromp L’oeil piece that represents the Winter solstice coming through a gap in the hills that was important to both cultures in mapping their seasonal world. the centre piece is hand embroidered and now I am trying to complete the effect of adding small pieces fabrics to create the effect I am looking for