Two Cranes House Home

Canvas covered with used re-cycled tea bags, cranes painted and added, as is the grass. The house/home is built and covered in tea bags with a heart over the door. Commissioned by Wiesia.

German Singer. Last Scrumble to date.

German Singer

This is one of the last scrumbles I have finished to date, another commission for Gaby. This one is for her brother, an opera singer in Germany. The colours are of the German flag, and the mouth is open, tongue protruding and white teeth showing, in full song. I like the faces best of all the scrumbles I have made, and plan to make more face scrumbles this winter.

Better late than never! My 70th birthday party - in February.Ann as a Fairie

Ann as a Fairie

Tammy and Gaby at my birthday party

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Laurie at my birthday party

Once I  had decided to celebrate turning 70 with a Fairie Birthday Party at GM Indian Restaurant, they were very tolerant of our old lady raucous party mood! And, of course, the food was, as always, wonderful!!!! Unfortunately, the lighting wasn't conducive to great photos, but after much deliberations, I decided to show them anyway!!!! Perhaps you get an idea of the fun we all had from the movement in the cell phone photos! Also attending were Chris and her daughter who preferred not to be photographed.

Two Cranes: Home Is Where the Heart Is

Two Cranes: Home is Where the Heart Is

 Most recent work, done for a commission. The background is covered with used teabags. I love how each teabag, when opened flat, has the image of a house. I was delighted with the finished look, and my friend was also pleased with it. Much as I love it, it warmed my heart to see it in her home. She has a lovely art collection, and Two Cranes fit in very well.

Two Cranes: Detail of House

Two of my newer paintings: "Tree with Treehouse" and "Tree with Roots"

Tree with Treehouse

Tree with Roots

 I made the first one with my friend Tammy - she made her painting and I made mine! I made the second one while teaching a class in Mixed Media. Such fun. I forget sometimes how very much I love teaching, especially groups of women. This group was absolutely delightful!

The night before I painted Tree with Roots, I dreamed about the tree roots I saw years ago while tutoring my friend's daughter in photography at Maple Ridge Park. When I woke up I knew I just had to include the roots in my painting.

Both paintings have text within the painting on the front and all around the sides as well.

This is a cool group to be in touch with if you see yourself as curvy!!!

More Scrumbles by Ann and a definition too!

Scrumble #7 - All White

 Here are the rest of the Scrumbles I have made since Christmas. I have been busy while recovering from the flu!!! Here is Wikipedia's definition of Scrumbles:

Freeform crochet and knitting is a seemingly random combination of crochet, knitting and possibly other fibre arts to make a piece that is not constrained by patterns, colours, stitches or other limitations.

The roots of this art are thought to be in Irish Crochet, with its own identity coming to the fore in the 1960s and 1970s. The late 20th and early 21st centuries have seen a revival and progression of this form of textile expression. Well known freeformers include Penny O'neill, James Walters, Sylvia Cosh, Jenny Dowde, Jan Messent, Margaret Hubert, Myra Wood Prudence Mapstone and others.

One feature of this freeform art is that group pieces can be made by people of varying expertise and experience. Leftover and scrap yarn can be made into scrumbles that can later be joined together. The name 'scrumbles' was coined by James Walter and Syliva Cosh during the 1990s and has remained the term since. Although, [Jenny Dowde in her books Freeform Knitting & Crochet, Freeformations and Surface Work][1] has coined her terminology of the word Scrumbling as Fragments and Prudence Mapstone calls them "patches".

Scrumble #8

Scrumble #9

Scrumble #10

Scrumble #11

Scrumble #12 - for Gaby