Accidental felt.

I knitted this cowl last year with a beautiful grey merino wool. Put it in the washing machine last week and had a big shock when it emerged as a considerably smaller felted scarf. But after a while I decided that I like the felted version better - it fits snugly round my neck in a double loop, and feels warmer.

Then I got bold and decided to wash another piece I knitted last year - a two-toned rectangular shawl knitted on big needles with mohair.  Unfortunately this time it felted kind of uneven - parts of it stuck together most unattractively and had to be pulled apart. I might put a button and loop on to fasten it and use it as a kind of asymmetrical wrap around my shoulders, or maybe I should put it through the machine again and see what happens? Time will tell.

Colony.

New work. I think it is finished but it may not be.

Colony (mixed media - teabags, fabric, paint,  magazine and newspaper cutouts, found objects, drypoint etchings, transferred images on cotton, hand and machine stitching)

Detail

Detail

A Mystery - revealed.

I reworked this piece - adding machine stitching to make it stronger and to reveal the mystery ...

Evoking the mystery (mixed media: tissue and other papers, gauze, found object, drawing, stamping, paint, ink and embroidery threads, hand- and machine stitched)

Unfinished art journal pages.

These have been waiting for a long time to get finished.
But unfortunately they are still unfinished.
That is life.

The next 5 years.

Election day today ... walking to the voting station ...

Will these two vote too?

At the voting station only two parties are "campaigning" outside - the ruling party and the official opposition. I was hoping for more diverse activity outside the station - there are after all some 33 parties on the ballot paper.

The queue move fast - everything well organized.

Almost inside now.

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And soon we will know what will happen and not happen during the next 5 years ...

Sunset.

Taken from our garden - a few days ago.

Travail book.

I made the Travail artist's book (using the profiteri etchings I had printed earlier) for the exhibition, but forgot to post about it.

tra·vail  

(trə-vāl′, trăv′āl′)n.

1. Work, especially when

arduous or involving painful

effort; toil.

2. Tribulation or agony; anguish.

intr.v. tra·vailed, 

tra·vail·ing, tra·vails

1. To work strenuously;

toil.