Toronto Craft Alert

Photo credit: Rosalyn Faustino

I can’t believe it’s almost pysanky time of year again!  As some of you may recall, I did an interview with Andrei, pysanky instructor, last year about the Ukranian craft of egg dying.  I just happened to be in the workroom while the class was taking place and was pretty bummed to have missed out on it.  Roz - who participated in the workshop -  was kind enough to show me the ropes in our own little workshop and I made the egg pictured above.  [...]

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The Paper Place
887 Queen St. West
416-703-0089
info@thepaperplace.ca | www.thepaperplace.ca

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COLOUR AND TEXTURE WORKSHOP FOR QUILTERS (with Gunnel Hag)
March 27, 2010: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Unleash Your Creativity! In this workshop students will learn how to mix their own personal colour combinations in order to create useful and unusual textures. Students will experiment with the application of pigments to cloth by using brushes, foam applicators and scrapers. They will build a surface structure for fabrics from scratch. While using a variety of everyday implements and found objects (forks, potato mashers, pot scrubbers, bottle caps, you name it) they [...]

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bbrrrr! grab a cup of tea and please join us for another batch of lovely picks!
happy weekend sweet friends

Amy says:

(image from Daniel Douglas)

1. Jenni Rope

Okay, look at all these books. I’m overwhelmed.

2. Sofia Arnold/Icebear

Other wordly silkscreened prints. Love.

3. Susie Cowie

Vintage-inspired embroidery.

4. Daniel Douglas

This picture is perfection: the tumbledown wood, the yarn-roof, oh!

5. Mariska Karasz

Incredible, [...]

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