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Last month I spent a weekend down in Cork at the Cork Textiles Network "Making Tomorrow" Annual Conference.Had a great time there and met loads of lovely people. On Saturday morning we had lectures from Rachael Howard , Cas Holmes and Liz Spillane. Then on Saturday afternoon, everyone went off to their different workshops. I was lucky enough to get on Cas Holmes "Using the Found, Extreme Stitching" Workshop which booked out really fast. A small collage I started at the workshop  Cas Holmes had some really lovely samples that we could all look at and admire! Some of Cas Holmes work I spent the afternoon and next day working on altering paper, monoprints, rubbings etc. to make various collages. One of the collages I worked on One really nice thing about the conference, is that at the end everyone brings displays their work in the canteen area, so you get to see what the other workshops did! Here are some of the baskets made at one class. N...

The Cork Textiles Network (CTN) are currently holding an exhibition "White Noise" in the Cork School of Music. Exhibition runs till December 20th. I entered a piece entititled "Sound Waves" for this exhibition. At last year's CTN conference, I did an indigo dyeing workshop. Some of the dyed pieces really suited the White Noise theme, one had a section which  looked a bit like a ghetto-blaster and another had some lines which reminded me of like sound waves. Sound Waves   Detail of Sound Waves

I spent the weekend down in Cork at the Cork Textile Network's 2013 Conference - which was great fun. The lectures were really interesting; there was lectures from Freddy Robins, Liz Nilsson and Debbie Symth. As part of the conference I did an Indigo Dyeing workshop with Liz Nilsson . Always wanted to do indigo dyeing, even have a kit for it (but have never got around to using it). So this was the perfect opportunity to try out indigo dyeing. Some of Liz' lovely indigo dyed fabrics The first part of the workshop dealt with setting up the indigo baths, measuring how chemicals and how to fold, clamp fabrics etc. Indigo vats  You could try out endless ways of folding material and clamping. Different pegs also gave different resist effects. Add a clamped piece of fabric into the indigo vat    On the 2nd day we got to dye fabric and add printing and stamping if you wanted. I didn't bother doing any printing at this stage, just kept on with the fabric dyein...