Pretty rude word pendants - now available in Sheffield shop

Very excited to announce that my pretty rude word pendants are now available from The Old Sweet Shop in Nether Edge Sheffield (http://www.theoldsweetshopsheffield.co.uk/) and Kuji on Ecclesall Road Sheffield (http://www.kujishop.co.uk/)

etsy shop!!!

Well I'm very excited! I've finally got round to setting up my etsy shop... currently selling my rude word pendants but i'll be adding to it over the next few months

http://www.etsy.com/shop/curiousyellowmonkey

pretty rude words

Just a quick update... I've started making pendants with miniature cross stitch in, so far I've done some rather rude words in a pretty baby pink (most of which sold fairly quickly) but I am happy to take orders (max 4 letter words or small pictures) - £10 each x

blackwork

and finally I have spent the first 2 months of this year organising an exhibition of textile artwork at Bank St Arts in Sheffield, my contribution is two pieces of hand embroidery using a Renaissance technique called blackwork:

more cuddly tower blocks

and then i spent christmas making more cuddly tower blocks, this resulted in a fun filled photo shoot to create an ikea style booklet to go with the sculptures. Oh, and the titles refer to the length of time each one took to make.

map quilts and cuddly tower blocks

and then I spent a few months making a quilt based on a map of a local council estate and a cuddly council flat tower block:

I'm back!

Hello! Sorry I've been away for so long, I've been so very busy making lovely things that I kept forgetting to update this. Anyway, here are some brief samples of what I've been up to. Firstly, I finally got the lightboxes made up:

yarnbombing: corporation nightclub, sheffield, summer 2010

Finally! the fence weaving yarnbomb that i attempted earlier this summer... please excuse the wobbly camera work, i've never made an animation before and we didn't have a tripod for the camera.

Skip find of the year!

A local tailors shop recently closed down and look what I found in a skip round the corner :) here are some facebook posts about my overwhelming joy...

attempt at civilised habits was utterly void today. After a pleasant few hours in starbucks reading the paper and sipping overpriced foam, i proceeded to revert back to my skip-rat habits and dived into a skip right outside to dig out a large amount of rather damp and smelly fabric offcuts. The result of which means that i will spend the rest of the summer in some rather nice and expensive looking tweed skirts :)

the wonder skip has yet again provided! a HUGE hall of scraps, half a dozen sample books and 5 bolts of cloth with 3+ meters on a piece. i'm a happy little skip-rat :)

we estimated that the amount of fabric pulled out is worth around 200+ quid - result!

simple weaving

here is some pictures of my first foray into weaving. I found a kids loom in a charity shop at the end of last year... i LOVE weaving and am planning to get a rigid heddle loom next month and start experimenting

SPLAT!!

Some experimental drawings from earlier this year...
Ink splats joined up with lines of various thickness (done with 0.1 to 0.8 fine liners)
my two favourite working methods - random choas and detailed, time consuming and systematic... i like the resulting web patterns.

City Lights - first year Creative Art Practices course (2009/2010)

This started as a mini illustration project set at the start of my first year on the Creative Arts Practices course. The idea of doing backlit screen prints came when I was checking the placement of some cut-out holes with the piece of tracing paper I'd marked it up with... I liked the idea so much I continued it for the rest of the year and ended up with a series of 6 twisted building light boxes (OK, I've yet to build the boxes but you get the idea) The first four images are the final test pieces for the mini project, then there are some sketch book pages showing how the idea developed and the final images show the screen print images, the cut outs and the final combinations.