Ineke Berlyn

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 travelling back to their countries they were leaving early and I did not get the chance to photograph their work. I’m sure they will send me pics and I will add them to the blog as they arrive.

Off to France on Saturday, reporting from there. There is good news about the barn we’re hoping to buy – planning permission is imminent!

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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 bleached black cotton by mother and daughter team Sue and Rachel Castle.

My own mum found inspiration in the pretty town of Appingedam where she was born in Holland and created lots of fabrics to work with when she gets home.

Maryanne’s tried to get bright oranges on the left and Marina printed ammonites with neutrals.  They’re all off to the Festival today – I hope they’ve got some energy left.

I went to the opening of the European Art Quilt exhibition and found Jane Dunnewold as their special guest opening this gem of a show – I’ve  been preaching her creativity and been recommending her new book all week.  So it was a very special evening – here she is:

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 with one design in two sizes!

We’re doing it again next week – so keep a look out.

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 as good as finished.  Thanks to Tina for the pix.

Also just done 2 days of dyeing and printing with fab results – forgot my camera again, hopefully I will remember next week and post the results then.

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 classes then are fully booked, but you can come to France and have a go there in September!!

I’ve also finished my ‘Summer in the City’ entry for the Festival of Quilts, and here’s a preview.

It’s a colourful version of the quilt that has been accepted for the  European Art Quilt exhibition, also opening at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham in August.

Another quilt finished is Elvis …..  The idea for this started at the classes with Edwina Mackinnon in September last year.  We had to bring in one word; mine was Elvis and it’s amazing what can come of this.  It’s not just the person, but there are the lyrics, the music, the guitars.  Lots of fabric was printed and eventually – after 3 attempts – I chose this version.

ammonites

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 thermofax screen with ammonites, rinsed again before overprinting with fabric paint and more ammonites. 

Delft Blue

I brought about 20 meters of white cotton with me and turned the ping pong table into a print table – here are my favourite dutch things in blue.

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

I’ve just added a new date for the Black Magic Workshop, 16th June and a new 2-day dye and print workshop on 4th and 5th August.

Valentines weekend was spent in Ireland – teaching first in Kerry, then we Nikki drove us all the way through Ireland just north of Dublin, Drogheda.

After the long drive I couldn’t wait to stretch my legs and walk to the beach, just in time to see the sun set and to find some gorgeous shells.  I took the beautiful sahped cockle shell home, the rest of my finds I arranged onto the sand for this picture.

The reflection of the sunset over the Irish Sea was stunning. No matter how often you see a sunset – each one is special.

I had a busy weekend teaching the ladies at An Grianan to make a sheer landscape.  We were lucky to have almost two days,  this enabled everyone in the class to complete their project. With some ladies even finishing two pieces.   This picture just shows a selection of the  little jewels they made.

Ireland was ‘grand’ and I made some lovely friends – Nikki, Jan, Romi, Jillian, Sarah and Maura (only two Irish amongst them).  If any of you read this – thanks a million!  Also thank you to all the ladies from the Irish Patchwork Society and the wonderful hospitality at An Grianan.

THURSDAY 28 JANUARY  at  Bromsgrove Rugby Club

A DAY OF SCREENPRINTING  or half a day for half the price!!

If you’re free why not come to Bromsgrove and have a great day printing  your own fabrics. Start with plain and go back with lots of interesting textiles . The picture shows what I’ve done with Elvis!

Or have a go at discharge printing black fabric with a special discharge paste that takes the colour out, then print over with metallic dyes! Brilliant effects.

Cost is £30 for the day or £15 for a morning or afternoon. Use of screens and inks, refreshments and cakes included, just bring fabrics and lunch.

Black and natural calico available to buy at £3 per metre – please order in advance.

Phone me on 0121 445 3011 or text on 0787 537 2589 or email me ine@inekeberlyn.com

It’s still very snowy here and an ice cold wind.  Still have to walk the dog everyday and I remembered to take my camera.  This is the picture I will use for my January journal quilt.

As I’ve been snowbound for a while I’ve had time to make it as well.  First of course is a sketchbook page with some designs.

The size for the journal quilts are 10″ x 8″  a good size, as they will fit into poly pockets.  For Christmas I had a Pogo mini picture printer and printed the first photograph off and used it as part of my design page.  The landscape formed around it and the mini picture almost dissappeared into the background.  For a bit of interest I added a weather map of a very snowy Britain.

And this is the finished piece of textile art……

These are a few pictures of the sheer pieces that have gone on show at the Cowslip Gallery in Launceston, Cornwall.  This is inspired by St. Ives

One of my favourites – a VW sunset

As always, tulips have to put in an appearance.

Sunflowers in a vase to make you happy! and a landscape from my favourite calendar.

I’m off to Cornwall to celebrate the New Year and also will be dropping off 20 new pieces for an exhibition at the Cowslip in Launceton. It’s on from the 9th of January.

Wishing you all a very Happy 2010.

My new book is finally here – I’m very excited as you can imagine.
I’m having a booklaunch here at home next week Thursday 13th August from 11 am – 9 pm, so if you’re in the area please call in for a coffee, tea, cake or drink etc. Hopefully the weather is nice and we can be outside.

I will have a selection of my quilts on show and also have a few copies left over of the catalogue that accompanied the exhbition at the Rugby Club in June: Sketchbooks and Journal Quilts.