A couple of updates first on the barn, where work is flying along. I can’t keep up with the pictures – they’ve done all the insulating and finished off with a nice blue layer of Tyvek. Now the steels inside need to be strenghtened. Last week was Landscapes in Textiles week again and I just [...]
barn, munich and art cloth
January 31st, 2011 by ineke
This is the barn today – whilst I was in Germany working hard the boys got on and put the new side in. It looked great in the sunshine and the smell of this new wood! I’ll try and catch the sunset tonight and add the pictures in the gaps. Last night I came back [...]
barn so far
January 23rd, 2011 by ineke
Work on the barn is continuing at great speed – thanks to the weather and the hard workers. The ground work has been done, drains are in and they’ve started covering up the gaps between the existing cladding. Windows and doors are being cut out, the wood on one whole side has been taken off, [...]
barn
January 5th, 2011 by ineke
We have a barn – now all we have to do is change it into a beautiful studio and a place to live as well. It’s pretty big now it’s empty. These are two of the guys who are going to do this – husband John on the right and ‘Handy Andy’ after their first [...]
Merry Christmas
December 19th, 2010 by ineke
I’ve just finished the last few of my journal quilts and this is my favourite of the final quarter for 2010. It’s based on Appingedam, a pretty village in Groningen, in the north east of Holland. My mum’s hometown where we visited family in November. It’s got these lovely houses on the canal with their [...]
Creating art cloth
November 26th, 2010 by ineke
Last week we continued with our ‘landscape inspired’ textiles – some wonderful ‘art cloths’ were being created -and this is only the second session. Can’ t wait to see the end results! This one by Lynne was inspired by Venice. The next piece by Judith is based on windows etc at Worcester Cathedral. And another [...]
holland
November 11th, 2010 by ineke
A quick update from Holland wherre I’ve been teaching for a few days up north. This picture is between Appingedam and Groningen – stormy weather as you can see. In Groningen we did a couple of days of screenprinting. As always some fabulous results. Recently I made a new thermofax design with a teddy bear; [...]
barn
September 23rd, 2010 by ineke
Great news! Yesterday we received planning permission to convert this barn into a studio – big enough to teach a dozen or so students and a place to live as well. We’re really excited – it’s not far from where we are now – about 1 mile, close to Littleheath Lane Nurseries. Of course it [...]
transparencies from summerschool no. 5
August 26th, 2010 by ineke
we finished the final of the summerschool sessions on wednesday This was a gorgeous second piece Eileen made after this one below And some more: The view from Jenny’s house towards the Malvern Hills These are Maryanne’s circles made of the fabrics she dyed and printed the week before. And some more, as ladies were [...]
More dyeing and printing
August 19th, 2010 by ineke
Yesterday we finished yet another print and dye summerschool – the class graduated with the brightest of colours! We had a truly international crowd with ladies from Holland, Germany, Scotland, US and the UK. All the fabrics turned out brilliantly. A perfect colour run from indigo to orange…. With bleached out indigo and discharged and [...]
Dye and Print
August 13th, 2010 by ineke
This week we had another creative couple of days dyeing and printing at Bromsgrove Rugby club. A colour-run was dyed, designs were made for printing with thermofaxes. Black fabric was discharged and overprinted Even t-shirts for the grandchildren were discharged and printed and overprinted. and fabric for a shirt ….. look what can be done [...]
transparencies summerschool
August 7th, 2010 by ineke
Last week we did the first of our summerschools ’Degrees of Transparencies’ – we only had 7, but that meant plenty of room and lots of time. Here are some of the fabulous results. We’re doing it again on the 23, 24 and 25 of August with an international cast. All totally different and all [...]
new fabric
July 23rd, 2010 by ineke
Here are some of the fabrics I’ve been printing in France. There are the very dutch houses and tulips and above the fabrics inspired by the ammonites and oyster catchers found on the beaches of the Vendee. These are just a sample of what we’re going to do at the summerschools in August, all the [...]
Printing fabric in France
July 14th, 2010 by ineke
Finally I have found some time to update my blog. I’m in France and its raining – the first in three weeks so not complaining. I have been very busy dyeing and printing. Here are some of the results. This is a piece purely for self indulgence. Dyed in a rainbow of colours then bleached [...]
Exhbition
June 2nd, 2010 by ineke
It’s exhibition time again! We’ve got our yearly exhibition at Bromsgrove Rugby club on the 4th (2-5) and 5th (10-4) of June – brilliant work, traders and lovely cakes! Do come along. See you there