ramblings about textile art and anything else relevant or not - Dale Rollerson is a textile artist - writer - teacher and passionate owner of The Thread Studio
Thursday, September 29, 2011
brave moves
I have been fiddling with my blog so I could add bigger words at the top and have a little more control over things. Last year Jacinta made it three columns but I have never been able to make some of the features work so I decided to change it back to two columns. Tell me what you think of it. I like things to be simple without clutterance and don't want patterned backgrounds to cloud the words and pics. I have been able to create pages at the top for my handson workshop on 12th November (which has a couple of bookings I am thrilled to say) and for my books.
You may be wondering why I have this picture. Someone emailed me today to say that she had heard that kunin felt (made from recycled plastic bottles) did not react properly to being heated with a heat gun. Let me assure you that the kunin felt we sell and which I use all the time, burns away beautifully. I took a piece today and did a heap of free stitching and then zapped half of it to show you. Just had to add some silver gleam over part to give it a real accent.
Back to the slog. I have been to the hairdressers though for refusching for our trip..... Some people have been worrying about the lack of strong colour - yesterday when I was in my Vietnamese supermarket buying my coconut milk and greens, the girl told me my hair had changed colour and she really liked the bright me. Wow - and here I am hoping no-one knows who I am when I am out and about shopping....
At last after roaming around for weeks, our shipment of Moonglow Sprays has arrived. love the new labels and now I can put together the three new trios I am creating. No rest for some.
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12 comments:
I like the simplicity of this Dale--looks great.
Love the new look. You have achieved a crisp and uncluttered new look - it places more emphasis on your images.
Love the effect you are achieving with this piece.
Your blog looks great Dale and I like the look of the kunin felt piece. Sadly, some so-called kunin felt doesn't burn as it should, as I have found, so it is best to make sure before buying. I'm sure yours is the good stuff.
No sneaking down to the shops in scruffy clothes - you're famous now! You could always get a grey wig so no-one recognises you!!
The new look is great. Very easy for more mature eyes to see.
Hi dale. I hope you dont get this comment three times from me. I have made several attempts to get it up! However, what I am trying to say is that I like your new look blog, and especially the new, larger and clearer tabs (home/workshops/books).
I like it much better, easier on the eye with the wider strip. I'm looking forward to seeing/meeting you in a couple of weeks re fuchsiaed too, it would be greater to pick up a world cup give away though but we can't have it all!! lol
Hope this one works -
I like it, back to the old style with improvements - much easier.
Jean
I like the new/old blog too! Some blogs take ages to download because of all the graphics. This is fast and easy to read. Bethx
Yes I like it too. With less bits it opens quicker.
Go the ABs!
Cool, clear, crisp design. I like it too.
Hi! Dale,
Like the new page setup. Interested re Kunin Felt am about to try it with the my hot tool sI'm so looking forward to it.
Of course being maximus I find it quite boring lol x
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