My bag is packed and off we go.
5 Months to go
Yes it really is only five more months until my trip to India starts. I found the picture above on a website a few days ago it Shows some of the textile crafts found around and in India. Last time I went we went to the Kantha region. We also went into the Tusar weaving area.
In January we will be visiting a block printing area. If you are able zoom into the picture to see some of the beautiful textiles. Great!
Time flies
May has come and is nearly gone.
The sun came and now has gone.
One month closer to the main event.
India January 2017.
Share a meal
Thanks to Bikerchick57 for helping bring back a food memory from my trip to India on 29 March 2015
Journal update March 22nd 2016
Well my India/Ellie journal is progressing, if a tad slowly. However, like slow stitching which I love, all my projects progress slowly because I work on many things, flitting from one to another and back again. What I love is when some of them combine and the Eureka moment hits. I know where I am going. It takes time to evolve, like a good wine, we must be patient.
Like the tea dyed papers and baby wipes used when block printing, each individually beautiful and fascinating in their own right are now being combined in my poster journal
These colours seem to wok so well together even if I did not plan it that way – serendipity at its best.
Well I think that is all for today. More coming soon.
Remembering
http://wp.me/P7hvVT-X WARNING big post with lots of photos.
Click on the link above and it should take you to the Page I set up in the wrong place ? Here’s trying again.
Crazy
Yes I know what you are going to say – you’re crazy
Why? I’m off to India again in 2017! I did so love my trip down memory lane, looking at all my photos taken in 2014.
Yes ‘Have Elly’ will travel.
Some small Ellie’s lent to me by a friend
Front cover completed
Background WIP
Journal cover
Well my journal cover is nearly completed and 1 (4) pages of the journal have been started – old Indian newspaper that came back with me. Only the start of the pages, much more to do.
Block printing
In 2014 I was lucky enough to go to West Bengal with Colouricious. We had a block printing workshop. Here are just two of the blocks I used to make my samples. Along with two samples – one on paper, the other on fabric.
Stage 2
Now it is daylight I can see what I did yesterday. New signatures some conveniently painted from my large sketchbook started with Kim at a Wooler EG summer school.
Cover started following workshop with Jenniebellie.
Unfortunately my iPad is acting up I think I am overusing it.
