just for fun
Posted: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
I鈥檓 looking forward to going to Jane鈥檚 Blue pig studio tomorrow (Wednesday) and plan to use her press and do some collograph prints, I鈥檓 taking one plate I had made a few years ago but have not had the opportunity to use and I have just made a new one using one of the rock art carvings as a design, Jane has asked me to show her the discharge method with ink and bleach on paper so it should be a productive day this is a page in my sketch book using this method, I have really grown to like the cup and cross shapes and I have played with them on several pages I am hoping to find some time to do some on fabric this weekend,
When I was at Jane鈥檚 last week I noticed blue pigs all over Jane鈥檚 studio and asked if she collected them she does and she likes blue pig and pig items for the little shop she has at the studio so during the day it came to me would she like some Harris tweed Blue Pig lavender sachets, she would so here鈥檚 the first three, just for fun,
When I was at Jane鈥檚 last week I noticed blue pigs all over Jane鈥檚 studio and asked if she collected them she does and she likes blue pig and pig items for the little shop she has at the studio so during the day it came to me would she like some Harris tweed Blue Pig lavender sachets, she would so here鈥檚 the first three, just for fun,
Comments
Oh, those blue pigs are cute!
Jill from EK
They are essence de cochon! The very essence of pigness! Now, if they had wings...
Flying Cat from if pigs could...
As Jill and FC indicated, the trio are the essence of cochon. Does lavender grow locally?
mjc from NM,USA
Lavender+salt laden gales = shrivelled brown rags of plants in our experience, but Lewis may benefit from being further sooth!
Flying Cat from what's between IT and USA?
Waiting for the answer, FC # By the way, apologies to all: I noticed that striving for prompt response early in the morning is doing horrible things to my grammar (not to mention an increase in typos). As Brother Patrick would have pointed out, AFTER rapping my knuckles, "the trio IS the essence of cochon."
mjc from NM,USA
oh great, I love the colours of the prints, and the cup and cross shapes look mysterious. That goes with the place you live in:) Thanks for visiting my blog, too! Have a nice evening, Andrea
Andrea from under the Eifelltower
What a truly dreadful grammatical solecism!
Flying Cat from lying down in a darkened room
thanks Jill, Fc and Mjc for the comments on the Harris tweed Blue Pig lavender sachets, Jane liked them too, mjc the lavender grows in my parents garden on the chalk downs of southern England, my father planted it in the 80's, he passed away in 92 but the lavender lives on, working with it brings memories of him, every summer my mother cuts it and gives it away she sends me a wonderful smelly parcel, I have taken cuttings despite all the garden books and programmes telling me it won't grow in my dampish acid soil and one of the cuttings is growing so I live in hope of filling them with lewis lavender in future years,
island threads from lewis
thanks Andrea, I am finding the discharge interesting and hope it will work as well on fabric, I hope you are safe and nowhere near the riots, thinking of you,
island threads from lewis
Maybe you could grow the lavender in a tub or pot? Then you could use better soil.
Jill from EK
IT, you could modify the soil to increase alkalinity and drainage in the location where you have the lavender. But then, you probably have done that already. As to banning salt laden gales, we probably will have to leave to that to King Canute, won't we now, FC? In the meantime, of course, pour passer le temps, we could all sign the Kyoto agreement, before adjourning to the local sushi and sake place.
mjc from NM,USA
A Yorkshirewoman called Jan Crisp, who has a small nursery in Birsay, has an article in this month's Orkney Advertiser about missing/growing lavender. The news is not good. She grows it in pots behind shelter. It really hates this salty seadog climate. As I remember, her shelter barrier is about 6+feet tall!
Flying Cat from flattened by Gaels
thanks to everyone for advice and to Fc for the update, I hope your not too flattened best to curl up by a good fire,
island threads from stormy lewis
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