Imagine finding a bundle of old letters at a carboot sale and then reading them to find that they are from a family of fishermen and master mariners who kept in touch in the 1870's by letter. This is my 'jumping off point' for the next pieces of work.
First some image transfer.Somehow I want to link up the letters to help tell their story.

I have found a collection of letters sent to and from family members who were master mariners and pilchard fishermen in Cornwall. 

What a great weekend at Ammerdown. Here are my pictures of an altered dust sheet.

The last image shows the piece chopped up and rearranged. VB

Dust sheets and more

You wouldn't think a simple dust sheet could hold so much potential but this weekend at Ammerdown we all stood around admiring the marks and possibilities for adding stitch.
Was I a 'Sat nav' person or a 'map reader/maker', i still don't know!

portion of dust sheet before I started

We were given postcard sized pieces cut from the dust sheet. We were encouraged to look at it and see where it took us in the ways of stitch and other embellishments. We also recorded our progress every few marks with photographs but i am just going to show the finished sample here.

i cut the sample into a square!

 i got carried away with colour! We were all so quite at least for an hour working at our pieces.

i made a second sample with cross stitch.
After we finished this challenge we all continued with our own work which hopefully will go towards a future exhibition.
i have been working with film rolls and the idea of images taken. How people take many shots of the same thing. My story is based on the 'Sheringham Shoal' the off shore wind farm.

working on tiny squares of Ramie fabric with graphite, tinting colours, stitch and pulling out threads i am deciding on the best way to join them.

sky sea and beach

 more next time! [AA]
 

What would you do with a decorators dust sheet?

Sian's challenge this Firework weekend was to respond to the marks on a piece taken at random from a decorators sheet.

We were not allowed to sit and think first but had to do one step then take a photo before considering the next step and work on through.

Everyone was so absorbed there was no chatter or banter while we got on with this .[J.H.]

The decorators dust sheet we started with......