Textile Museum

Friday and Saturday the Textile Museum of Canada (in Toronto) had its yardage sale fundraiser - they gather donated fabric, notions, patterns, garments, crafts, yarns, books, etc. and have a tent sale each May.  I went on Friday, and scored some super beige silk dupioni (which I use in both my butterflies, and my clutches), 4.6m + 1m for $20!  I also got two bags of wool fibre, and a cute frog pattern 'batik' style piece of quilting cotton. 

Spoonflower designs

I learned something -- I have to order proofs (test swatches or yardage) of my uploaded designs before I can make them available for purchase on Spoonflower.  Happily, I ordered test swatches of a bunch of them about 10 days ago, so once those arrive and I look through them, I may make some of those designs available.  In the meantime, you can look through my designs by clicking on the banner above the most recent of my blog posts. 

Tuesday

In contrast to yesterday, it's cooler and raining a little.  Still, everything outside smells so fresh.


I ironed my silk yardages today, disturbed the cat and got a minor steam burn in the process.  I've cut foam board for the frames that didn't come with something of that nature in them - shadow boxes for the butterfly project.  Currently I'm organizing all the sketchbook material, which is on loose sheets of paper, so that I can get it spiral bound soon.  Here's a little teaser of a piece under construction. 

Mess!

Clearing up weeks of accumulated piles of things so that we can move in this room again.  Tea stained a piece of silk yardage a little while ago and took it outside to dry, which was the first time I'd been outside today.  It's so nice out!  These are another element of the butterfly project.  They're wet felted 'cocoons' made from wool and silk fibres.