September Textile Love #1, #2, #3

It’s September - the month of #SeptTextileLove, sponsored by the Seam Collective , when we are prompted to share our love of textiles each day on social media. Each day, a prompt is given and participants are asked to respond in a way which highlights textile art, especially our own.

Day 1: Introduction … my name is Wilma Simmons and I live in Lambton , a suburb in a beautiful city, Newcastle NSW Australia . I am a textile artist continually practising and working to ‘find my thread’. I love to stitch by hand and machine , I love to collage and I love to use various materials including snail mail ephemera, recycled and found objects .

At this very moment , I have just stepped away from my sewing machine, from a small experiment with stitch and postage stamps…

Day 2 : Discipline/Craft I find it difficult to name one speciality area of textile art I enjoy the most. I chose images of my stick dolls ( Garden Threads series) as examples of ‘doll making’ as a discipline which gives me the most options to do what I enjoy - to respond and engage with Nature , to design, to make a pattern , to collage , to stitch by both machine and by hand and to recycle materials .

Day 3 : Prompt - Current Project Day Just one? This project has hardly been started but all the prep is done . It is an interpretation of a watercolour landscape by my friend , Anne at Timeless Textiles who is curating an exhibition of textile art interpretations of her selected artworks. I am attempting a stitched shaded relief map of the area depicted in the painting . The materials I have chosen are silk , organza , metal fabric thread and beads.

Hope you will follow along with me this month.... thanks.

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