21 July 2009

More from the Summer school

Janice asked me about the summer school - we are a group of textile artists - some teachers and tutors, some have written books, most of us blog and we all belong to a private Yahoo group.  Some have met before but we have never managed to get together for a week.  Unfortunately not everyone could  make it but 13 of us did (one ran off early before I got a picture), we came mainly from the UK, but also France and Austria.  The group also has members in the USA, Australia and Sweden.

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Throughout the week we all shared our skills - Paulene showed us how to print and we used her pasta machine which worked really well.  Here is a leaf print I made - I loved this.

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This was our main workroom.

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Sara showing Liz either crochet or spinning.

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Gill demonstrating the Docucam in the second room.  During the evenings we could sit in here watching DVD's, crocheting and often drinking a glass of wine.  Nothing was too planned, nothing was obligatory. We all got on so well and there was much nattering and laughing.

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It was very sad to leave and less said about the journey home the better..........

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Pictures from Stonehenge to follow soon.

3 comments:

  1. Janice Perkin12:06 pm

    thanks for that - shame about the jorney home but i bet the week did you a lot of good and recharged your ideas

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  2. nadine11:49 pm

    and Canada too.

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  3. Ok did you really say print with a pasta machine?

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