Cotton coasters

We started the embroidery on cotton coasters in February. More then 20 people spent their time stitching shapes of words and drawings. Now the work is ready - all thanks to Mary Jane (Sallie's mum) who came up with the idea of how to hang it all! We temporarily hung it above the refreshments table. Hanging cotton coaster - too pretty to rest hot mugs on them.

Mary-Jane, Mike and Sultana working on the final work.

Haji, Sultana, Saadia, myself and Abbas working on final arrangements.

From scarf to headscarf

I have arrived with a a large scarf (cold mornings!) and Sultana showed me how to wear it as a headscarf!

More foil casts

Foil casts without words and with words.

Foil 3D

Sameer and Aisha bored with the body foil-casts made a small foil animal farm.

Nasir decided to cast my face....

Body-casting factory! (Karim, Lorraine and Saadia working on the casts)

Foil

Foil is an interesting material - it is flexible, shiny, cheap and easy to work with. Everyone seems to have an experience of foil - no matter if one cooks or not. Foil = take away. Foil = food. Foil = raw. Foil = cover.

We covered our limbs with foil and made foil casts. Aisha volunteerd to have her entire body foil covered. Foil is flexible but fragile - we made holes and punctures in our casts before making a perfect one. The foil casts stayed in shape but again once freed of the body underneath their fragility tripled.

We are going to play a bit more with these temporary casts. Watch this space!

Julia watching while Ania and Noor are covering Aisha in foil.

Abdul also had his arm foil-cast done.

All about foil

foil 1 |foil|verb [ trans. ]prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding• Hunting (of a hunted animal) run over or cross (ground or a scent or track) in such a way as to confuse the hounds.noun1 Hunting the track or scent of a hunted animal.2 archaic a setback in an enterprise; a defeat.
foil 2noun1 metal hammered or rolled into a thin flexible sheet, used chiefly forcovering or wrapping food : aluminum foil.2 a person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another

Photoshop play

It was one of these days when Aisha, Sameer and Noor where bored and only playing with Photoshop was able to bring some fun! Ania was their favourite object of transformation - improved AFTER version below.

Before

After