Fibre artworks – double happiness!

One of the photos accompanying an article I wrote about a fibre art commission, “Da Bees”, has made the cover of March 2023 Creative Fibre (New Zealand) magazine.

And one of my entries in the national Creative Fibre Exhibition at Pataka Art & Museum (Porirua, Wellington Region) already has a red sold sticker!

My entries: “Enchanted Forest” stitched fibre artwork (behind me) and the small, bright turquoise “Swirling Summer Seas” scrumble knit work.

I’ve also made a couple of works for the “Squares, squares, squares” challenge at the Festival of Fibres event at the end of the month – see previous post.

Squares, squares, squares

Latest fibre artworks: for the NZ Creative Fibre “Festival of Fibres” Event challenge later this month:

Two more Silver Birch Forest works, and a couple more ‘works in progress’ – stitching is finished but still deciding whether to frame or make into a bag or cushion

Nanna says some things on Facebook

Nanna says she usually says things here and posts them to our Little Brother Big Brother Facebook page. But this one’s the other way round; it’s from her FB to here. So you might see it twice.

https://www.facebook.com/littlebrotherbigbrother99/

We haven’t seen it, coz too much screen time makes us silly, but our Mum sometimes checks out online stuff.

From Nanna:

I have several things in the Kapiti Arts and Crafts Society’s Wonders with Wool Exhibition of work by the Spinners, Weavers & Knitters and the Felters groups. This year’s theme is “From Farm to Fashion”.

When I was on Gallery duty on Thursday afternoon, someone came in looking for clothing to fit her very petite frame… She spotted my “child’s” jacket, tried it on and loved it! It was a great feeling to sell something I’d crafted to someone who appreciated it so much.

Here’s the jacket on display – and modelled by Peg, its new owner.

We’re standing by another of my creations, a free form / scrumble knitting beaded shawl in blues and oranges. (See earlier blogs Scrumble shawls and Nanna sold a jersey…)

https://www.facebook.com/littlebrotherbigbrother99/

3 funerals, no weddings, not-so-new website, not much writing…

So since I last posted here, I’ve been to three funerals – each one totally different from the others in style and content – and missed another funeral and a memorial service because I was just all “funeralled out”.

I’ve been knitting a lot, and blogging about knitted items on my not-very-new website www.littlebrotherbigbrother.com and for sale via bronzart shop on felt.

The past year or so hasn’t been great for creativity, but I’m getting back into it now. Here are my plans for the next few months, so you can check on me if I don’t get onto them:

Check out converting my book “you who delight me” to an ebook and selling online.
Self-publishing another collection of writing as an e-publication (rather than through brilliant but costly publishers).
Revisiting a novel I haven’t worked on since 2005. I kept copious notes, timeline, character descriptions etc – but I didn’t think clearly about plotting and need to find a resolution and meaningful ending.
Keep on knitting: items for sale, winter woollies for my grandsons, and for an exhibition of the Kapiti Arts and Crafts Society, whose Facebook pages I curate.
Take more photos. I mean, apart from the hundreds of my grandkids who are just too gorgeous and cute and smart and charming (of course!). I’m beginning to take cityscape and quirky images again. I’ll post a few recent ones here.

And I think that’s it for First Quarter resolutions.

If you’d like to check out my occasional knitting blogs, written in the imaginary voice of my real grandson, you can follow my Nanna Says posts.

And, depending on your hemisphere and beliefs (or lack of): Happy Easter – Blessed Samhain or Eostre – Shalom Pesach!

Blessings and peace. The light will return…