tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389008242024-03-13T01:05:07.429+00:00HippyDeepCraft dabbler, sewing, patchwork, jewellery making, bookbinding, fabric printing, linocuts, polyclay...hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-53612576051571467682017-11-20T16:21:00.004+00:002017-11-20T16:21:50.339+00:00Christmas is coming so it is time to make another glitter house<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For the last 7 years I have made a glitter house a year, the patterns were all freely available on this website http://www.littleglitterhouses.com/ This is a picture of last years house in progress. This became the dark house on the right hand side in the following picture.<br />
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It is made of grey board. Traditionally they are made of cereal packets, but I wanted them to be more robust. Cereal packets would have been so so much easier to cut. However they are sturdy.<br />
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This is the village, each house is a different year and at the bottom of each house I write the key events of the year. They get wrapped up with the christmas decorations and put away every year, so when we take them out again it is really lovely to read what has happened. It is time to make a new house! Only problem is that I am running out of space. </div>
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Ah no!! the village has been invaded by many rudolph's. </div>
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-75367820704767926232017-11-20T13:42:00.001+00:002017-11-20T13:42:22.368+00:00Our latest SCA medieval re-enactment outfits, Viking (plus bonus picture of flemish garb I made many moons ago)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The red tunic was made by RovingAnarchist in a recent craftster swap www.craftster.org It needed a little adjustment.<br />
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To create complete outfits, I made some white tunics to go underneath, A Viking hat , trousers and a tunic for the Mister. And the piece de resistance a fully reversible wool coat for me.<br />
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A long time ago when I lives in the kingdom of Lochac. I made a 15Century flemish outfit. Dusted off, it looks like this.</div>
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-19137323565649187852017-11-20T13:38:00.000+00:002017-11-20T13:38:14.895+00:00Harry Potter bag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The fabric for this is a linen mix, I cut a stencil from an Ireland Quidditch logo that I found online, to make the front. The bag is lined with recycled fabric that I had tie-dyed and over printed with a lino cut of the golden snitch. Go Ireland!<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-38119046098531954762017-11-20T13:36:00.001+00:002017-11-20T13:36:27.877+00:00Boro Bag- so many stitches<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Boro is a Japanese repair and decoration technique. Many many tiny stitches. I used the technique to make this bag out of scrap, the bag fabric is made of squares glued down and long lines of parallel stitching secures all the patches. I did some cross stitching for decoration and then cut the fabric into a bag.<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-29407011317153139522017-11-20T13:34:00.000+00:002017-11-20T13:34:05.195+00:00Recycling sweaters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is the second 'sweater quilt' Here in Ireland we call them jumpers. I cut approx 12 inch (30cm) squares, keeping any interesting features, especially pockets.<br />
<br />All the squares are sewn together and the top is backed with fleecy blanket that is wrapped around the raw edge of the quilt and sewn down. The entire quilt is tied together at the corners of each square, with ties. I love recycling!<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-50935718259338999052017-11-20T13:23:00.000+00:002017-11-20T13:23:05.326+00:00Some of the books that I have made recently<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I love this flamingo fabric, so I had to make a book. I also added some random papers inside of the covers, as I like something interesting to pop up occasionally.<br />
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The book is stitched signatures, with fabric covering the greyboard covers. Stuck with PVA<br />
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I have also been volunteering to teach a craft class to a local group of refugees, the organisation does not have much money, so I am trying to supply all the materials, and scrounge what I can. We made these books last week, the covers are leftover boat cover materials, the pages are photocopy paper and the whole lot is stitched together with strong thread and a button as a closure. All done in 2 hours</div>
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-33137386781940323282017-11-20T13:17:00.000+00:002017-11-20T13:31:40.473+00:00Summer tie dyeing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tie Dyeing makes me so happy, first sign of sunshine and we go mad. All of these fabrics end up getting used in one way or another, mostly as backgrounds for printmaking.<br />
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The following prints have all been printed onto tie dyed fabrics, some are commercial rubber stamps, the bees and daleks are my lino cuts.<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-31071717202274618342017-11-20T13:15:00.000+00:002017-11-20T13:15:43.124+00:00Such a neglected blog. Here are a few things that I have made in the last while. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Some printed fabrics<br />
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This is a simple dalek print, A lino cut onto some tie-dyed fabric, The strips of fabric were inserted into a pair of pillowcases. For Dr, Who dreams. The same fabric was used to make a christmas stocking. The tardis stocking was appliqued, as a matching set. </div>
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napkins printed with a martlet, for medieval re-enactment</div>
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Celtic knotwork crow. Corvids are amazing, this was another lino cut onto fabric, strips inserted into a pair of pillowcases</div>
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The ground fabric has been tie-dyed and overprinted with a fairly simple lino cut. Celtic knotwork</div>
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-7439452812709900802013-07-19T14:10:00.000+01:002013-07-19T14:11:38.859+01:00printing with a car, instead of a printing press!!..yes you did read that correctly. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The lake scene linocut was bothering me, for two reasons, The image needed tidying up as I wasn't keen on how the sky looked, but the bigger issue was that I don't have a printing press and burnishing an image of this size just wasn't working out...<br />
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I have spent all morning googling making printing presses, they are all too large for the space that I have available and a bit too big of an undertaking when I would only use it once in a blue moon, In the back of my head I had remembered something about printing with a car, there is a good youtube video of this (which I now cannot find!), but using what looks like a woodcut, rather than a lino cut...<br />
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nothing ventured, nothing gained, I have a car, I don't have a printing press. So it was time to cobble something together..<br />
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I glued the lino block onto a thin piece of ply, but that exhausted the supply of ply, scratching my head, I found an old plastic chopping board, thick and robust.<br />
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To (try and) make sure that the paper didn't shift while it was
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The stack for printing went board+linocut, paper, two blankets to pad it out a little, these were cut from an old woolen blanket, I tried with both one and two layers and it didn't make much difference.<br />
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This was the first attempt, I realised that either I need fatter tyres on the car, or I needed to reposition the stack and go over it a few times.<br />
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This is the final print, for this one I ran the car over six times, three times across the width X 2.<br />
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If you look really closely at the print, there was a little movement of the image, but I am very happy with this.<br />
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The side had a little bit of ink 'missing, so I did a little bit of touching up here and there.<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-56794038164260488202013-07-03T17:53:00.001+01:002013-07-03T17:53:47.578+01:00Linocut Cygnus and lough derg<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So I wanted to try somethign a little more elaborate and I was out of inspiration for any repeats, so i had a go at a picture, i was inspired by some of the work that I saw online, but wanted to do one of the lake near my house.<br />
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The linocut was a slightly different design as it had a swan flying across, but I didn't like it and took it out, just left the constellation cygnus instead. I tried working with block printing medium and oil paints and it just served to remind me that<br />
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So I went back to fabric, and printed up a couple of tee-shirts, all of this work is a first attempt, there are plenty of problems to iron out, and I need to mount the lino cut onto a block of wood as it is bending back on itself, which makes printing a bugger. For the tee-shirts I put the block down face up and tee on top, which made it a bit messy..but for an initial attempt, i am happy with them..<br />
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the next two were initial proofs on paper, but it gives a clearer idea of what is going on..<br />
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sky in this one was tidied up a bit, the fuzzy edges will definitely be cleaned up when I mount the block onto wood. <br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-81273408151638842652013-06-15T17:20:00.000+01:002013-06-15T17:20:17.629+01:00Feathers, lino cut, fabric printing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So this today's work, feathers this time, I cut 5 different sizes of feather, again all individually so I could play around with the arrangements, I don't love these as much as the mushrooms, but I am pretty happy with them.<br />
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this is on a fairly coarse piece of fabric, so there is a lot of texture with the prints<br />
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This is on yet another piece of fabric that I tie-dyed about 9 years ago...<br />
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Dense print on a fabric that someone gave me, the colour doesn't 'read' very well on screen, it is a kind of lilac<br />
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Close up of the same print<br />
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A totally different arrangement, fading out to grey for the smaller prints (ink was running out!!)<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-5774359370827345252013-06-15T13:59:00.001+01:002013-06-15T14:05:45.659+01:00Bookbinding, leather bound gratitude journals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
These were a set of journals that I made for christmas presents. I had some crappy leather, bought at a discount from deprova leather..cheap because it was crappy, one surface had a nasty texture, but the back surface was a lovely suede, it also had a nice edge, I cut the covers to take advantage of the raggedy edges of the leather, as much as I could.<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-47740094818738466322013-06-15T13:49:00.000+01:002013-06-15T13:49:21.648+01:00two quilts and a moral<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The first of these two quilts, the log cabin, was a top that I had started to piece over twenty years ago, Some of the scraps came from a friend who was then working at a couture house in London, (the queens dressmaker!) and some were just bits and pieces that have been added over the years. In the end I started to really dislike the top, the fabrics were just too scrappy, there was no over all theme, it wasn't well made. But as a result of a craftster challenge I decided to get it finished...Now that it is finished, I don't hate it, but would never part with it as it represents a huge chunk of my life, marriage, divorce, daughter, living in 3 countries, countless house moves etc etc... <br />
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the next quilt was much more recent and has a moral. it started life as a coin stack quilt and was intended for a colleauge that had a baby boy, but I realised that they wouldn't really appreciate it and so bought them something instead. So I added to the top intending to make it into a full size one, Not huge, just enough to sit on the top of a double bed...Which I did, but at that stage I was seeing a guy...who loved it, so I gave it to him as part of his christmas present....we broke up about a month later...<br />
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the moral is, never give quilts to new boyfriends!...it can be such a waste... lol<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-9664148950346245792013-06-15T13:38:00.001+01:002013-06-15T14:06:11.513+01:00Mushrooms, linocut, ...I may be a little obsessed!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last night was cocktail friday, lychinis (very nice!) which inspired another stab (not literally) at lino cutting, There were no mushrooms in the cocktail, this was just an image that I saw on pinterest and thought I would have a go at trying to reproduce (it is not original!) I cut each mushroom seperately which allowed me to vary the placement.<br />
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I do rather like the red on pinkish tie-dye, the busy pattern comes up as an overall softer feel like this. <br />
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This was a piece of floral fabric that I had knocking around, that I really didn't like much, it was very old fashioned, but the addition of the very dark mushrooms makes it pop, softens the original print and gives almost a 3D feel...love!<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-4429154992613954282013-06-15T13:34:00.000+01:002013-06-15T14:06:41.059+01:00Anatomical hearts lino cut on fabric<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My second lino cut, anatomical hearts, Love how this one turned out! <br />
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I tried overprinting red on black, freehanding the registration, I rather like the 3D effect that it gives. <br />
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And on a tyedyed piece. I dyed this one years ago and now the whole thing has a very trippy feel. <br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-81519984470317513942013-06-15T13:24:00.000+01:002013-06-15T14:07:53.952+01:00Linocut fabric printing flamingos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is the start of another new obsession, I scored a load of lino from a kind soul on Jumbletown and it lay around for a while until I signed up for a fabric printing swap, so I had a go. My first try was pink flamingos. And I really like it, the flamingo body and beak is hand coloured, printed using speedball screen printing inks for fabric and printed onto some vintage fabric.<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-15555171474578195952013-06-15T13:16:00.001+01:002013-06-15T14:07:19.772+01:00Art journal, <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This was hand bound with coptic stitch, I used some stencils from Ed Roths new book, but most of the writing inside is freehanded, a combination of backgrounds, some linocut prints and scrapbooking papers. And some random images from the web.<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-46529506288363479562013-06-15T13:10:00.002+01:002013-06-15T13:10:23.266+01:00Time to post more on here. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This has been a tough year and not too much crafting has been done, but I have done plenty to start posting more...<br />
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I made these for a craftster swap. They are of polymer clay and they all have different functions, one is to solve difficult problems, one to find out stuff, one to do your shopping and my favourite, one to give you love when you are feeling down...<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-69947121479794574672011-03-06T13:11:00.003+00:002011-03-06T13:26:34.414+00:00Venice is awesome, patchwork inspirationDefinitely food for the soul. but while I was there and in St Marks church. I took a load of photos of the floors. They are exactly like patchwork quilts in marble...really beautiful, these are some...excuse all the feet and shadows in the photos..they were taken surreptitously <br />
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This is painted for a friend, for a personal craft swap. Its on the back and was just freehanded onto the fabric..and of course it got a spray of glitter once it was done!<br />
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hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-74565100849196948572011-02-13T18:43:00.002+00:002011-02-13T18:56:27.272+00:00Baby quilt..about 45'' square...for a friend's baby, who's arrival is imminentMy friend has about a week to go in her pregnancy, she doesn't yet know the gender of the child and I wanted to make a quilt as a gift for the new baby.<br />
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I am a member of the yahoo group stashbusters and got a great gift of fabric from a wonderful new friend in the US..it had 5'' charm squares in the package so they were perfect for this...precut is wonderful!<br />
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getting the colour balance right for this quilt was a PITA...I had the cute ducks for the centre, added the next section and then the random charm square border..these started as squares, but I simply couldn't match up anything from my stash to go as the next piece..I really needed a dark yellow or green. I finally solved it by cutting down those pieces significantly, as they were totally dominating the quilt at this point<br />
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I am not 100% happy with it..the colour balance is a long way from perfect... but I learned a lot from getting the colours sorted on this one. I Learned how useful it is to look at the layout and the fabrics on a camera phone..both in colour and black and white..it really helped me to 'read' the fabrics..<br />
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I also experimented with some free motion quilting. Much easier on a small quilt like this. And some quilt in the ditch to emphasise the different areas.<br />
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the back is a really nice print from IKEA, I like the childish nature of the print.hippydeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227800038020447945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38900824.post-21506245704892523192011-02-13T18:33:00.001+00:002011-02-13T18:55:46.899+00:00Faux log cabin quilt, for a friends birthdayI like this pattern, its not made in the usual log cabin way, but ends up looking like it. This is done in a barn raising arrangement....its from this pattern<br />
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This was made using all fabrics from my stash..I wanted a big bold all prints and no blenders type quilt and I actually really like how it turned out..<br />
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This is it folded up in my little reading nook, but it is destined for my BFF for her birthday. its a large lap quilt size, mostly quilted in the ditch as my little machine doesn't like large quilts!<br />
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