Creative Textiles

First week back after the half term break and a few ladies from our group missing meant it was a smallish session, but it looks like an interesting set of lessons to come this next term:

• Colour theory - describing colour, hue, value and saturation
• Colour theory - relationships, colour wheel, warm and cool schemes
• Design sources for pattern - natural/organic, structural, planned and combination and project update for level I students (thats me!)
• Designing with pattern - developing patterns within a chosen context and project update for the level II students
• Texture - sources of inspiration and practice and another project update for level I

This week we looked at a basic introduction to colour "describing colour" (which I find personally difficult being as mostly my wardrobe is black, navy and grey and I go all hysterical at the thought OF colour) BUT we're going to work on samples this week to describe hues of one colour we've picked out and I think we're going to do a lot of squinting through narrowed eyes at black and white pictures of previously coloured pictures!

I'm looking forward to this section and hoping too, that the design elements will also help me in understanding how things go together and with luck it will be in time for our main project piece which is going to be upon us very shortly!!

As we near the end of this lovely course some of us are starting to think about next year and the prospect of whether we'll be able to stay together for another year's tuition and at the moment, at least, its a bit in the air! We think that the level I students are slightly safer however it will then come down to numbers! are there enough to make a class viable! Its such a shame when a cloud of doubt like this hangs over us and I just wish more folk would sign up for these courses to guarantee their continuing but the colleges don't always make them easy to!

With our refreshment facilities cut down to "bring your own" and the lack of parking and a rather cold building (not helped by the mice!) it doesn't present itself as being wildly attractive, I don't suppose!

For next week I've chosen pink (no surprises there, then!) as my colour and I've decided to do some small knitting and mini patchwork samples for our homework!