fireworks

Today was the first uni day after reading week. 

We got feedback of the last project, and had been briefed about a new project.

Actually, the new project is very similar to the last one. We still need to work with geometric shapes, so it should be a chance to spend substantial time on developing one subject besides it's a bit boring. I hope I can make something better!

In the meantime, I am so excited as the next workshop I'm going to be in is embroidery, which I have been wishing to lean for ages!!

Ah, heaven…but to be honest I am trying to not to be excited to it too much, because if I find embroidery doesn't suit me, it directly means that I disappoint myself. I wish it will never ever happen! I just want to enjoy my life with textiles :)

Until the coming Christmas holiday, school life seems to be very busy. 7 weeks to go! ho ho ho!  

And, today there's an annual fireworks event at the glasgow green. It was unfamiliar to me to watch fireworks in winter, because usually there are many fireworks festivals in sumer in Japan and I got used to it, but actually the fireworks that I watched tonight was very beautiful! It didn't rain tonight, thank goodness :)

some pages from my sketchbook

fireworks at glasgow green

can you paint with all the colour of the wind

I have been to Ireland for 6 days, from October 28th to November 2nd. I did not imagine that I would be in Ireland in this halloween, though I was wishing to be there one day.
The main event of the trip was the Knitting and Stitching Show held at Dublin, but now I can say that I really enjoyed throughout the trip.
I remembered that in the last year my tutor said that 'inspiration is in everywhere' before going on a study trip to London. Actually, when you are in a new place, you will find it impossible to be not inspired by anything. At least I can't!
Inspiration will never have best-before dates...store it up for yourself.

I don't  really know what is celtic, but I know how cool it is

baby, child, bro, dad, grandad and great-grandad leaves

I am not lonely, you see

I failed to focus on out of the tunnel, but in some way I quite like this

drops

a waterfall

wet

sepia isn't a tearm of photography 

being innocent

why you are so erotic

what does enable them very neatly random

dig now, and find the pot of gold

good purchase makes me happy

welcome to the loom's room

I am a very forgetful person.

I often forget to bring my wallet to the school, and so I did today. However, I am a very lucky person at the same time, so I could get in the school, in the studio and in the weaving workshop, without my student card. 

Yes, it was open-door's day today.

Many people came to see our studio. I'm sure that the temperature in the studio was definitely higher than usual. 

Actually, it was not just open-door's day but also the last day before the deadline of the project, so everyone was working hard. I have finally done all of weaving samples. Now I'm already excited to the next workshop after the reading week.

circles and diamond shapes have been done by the computer loom

high-tech or low-tech?

What do you think of the image below?

When I saw it at the first time, I thought it looked like lords of cottom buds stisking out of flutes.

This is actually a part of a loom, a very old loom.

Those pegs lift certain shafts up every time, so that you can get patterns on your weave without checkigng and remembering patterns by yourself.

It is very high-tech isn't it?

 

 

 

Recently I'm enjoying weaving and even being in the workshop.

After the last review, I have done less drawing but more weaving, and tried to get different kinds of texture by beating yarns tightly or gently. 

This is why I finally went to a wrong way again, but at this time, I am rather being relax than in panick. Although there are still many things to do, it is quite clear what do I do the next.

I hope I can manage to hand my stuff in in time, and will be satisfied with its quality.

 

 



Workshop is such a lovely place

Every time I breathe here, my lifetime get 10 sec longer :) I'm not joking!

white yarn

not sure what is this for

classmates' and mine