I
have made a rather last minute contribution to a decorated piece of
barkcloth for the Barklcoth to Artcloth project. - a collaboration
between Textile artist Bobby Britnell and shoe designer
Janet Middleton to promote awareness of the 'Hands Up for Uganda'
Charity.
The idea is to for various contributing textile artists &
enthusiasts to create embellished pieces of Barkcloth from Uganda which
Janet then makes into shoes (art shoes not functional). These will then
be exhibited at the forthcoming ICHF (International Craft & Hobby
Fair). You can find out more about this, and see some of the inspired
creations here on their facebook page.
Sian
Martin (my tutor) has asked Distant Stitch students to all contribute a
feather which will then be applied to a embellish a piece of the
barkcloth, and here's my little offering. I used a piece of my hand dyed
cotton which had a bit of patterning that looked featherish. I used
stitch and tear to stabilise it so I could free machine the feather
shape. Then I cut it
out, leaving plenty of edging around the sides and particularly the tip
so I could fray this back to the stitch line. It's about 9cm long
including the frayed tip.
