Holiday Recap: Easter
In August we’ll be off on our oversears holiday- South Korea, which will give us a total of 2 ‘big’ holidays, and 2 ‘long weekend’ holidays for 2011. This weekend I’m doing the recaps so you can see the adventures we’ve been off on!
A friend of ours, Peter, is a mime. He was performing at Easterfest, a christian music festival in Toowoomba. We went along to support him, and see what all the fuss is about! It was a fun weekend, except for the crazy rain that fell on the Saturday night, washing us away! The little flash flood was over in the morning, and we were safe (just a bit wet from sleeping on our wet, wet, air mattress)! Here are some pictures of the long weekend:
Crocodile for dinner the first night!
Pete the mime!
The night flood came. This was in the eating tent, and the water started piling up!
The next morning we just threw everything into garbage bags to take home and sort!
Cultur-e: A sphere shaped quilt
Wow, Uni is over for another Semester. This semester has been pretty full on working on my major project.
The masters I’m studying is in Cross-Disciplinary Art & Design, and so our major project is our own cross-discplinary project. It sounds complicated, but I always explain it to people like this- it’s getting together art and design disciplines (as well as other disciplines) that aren’t usually used together to create awesome new stuff that breaks everyone’s ideas.
The project I’ve decided on deals with how the internet affects culture. For my final piece of Semester 1 (due last night) I did this video explaining an overview of the project. I’d love for you to watch it. There are going to be exciting opportunities for people to be involved later in the year, and next year, with the actual construction of the patchwork piece, so stay tuned!
X-Disc Final Project from Talia Carbis on Vimeo.
Tutorial: Make Your Own T-Shirt Scarf
While Luke and I are taking in the glorious sights of Melbourne, the Great Ocean Road, and Adelaide, Kim from Petit Pas has come over to share an awesome tutorial with you! Please make her feel welcome by leaving her lovely comments, and then going over to check out the beautiful blog she shares with her husband, Morgan. 
-T
As things are starting to cool down for all of us in the Southern Hemisphere, my sister asked me to
make her a scarf. I bought one made from curled jersey fabric last year off etsy, so decided I wanted
to give it a go and make one myself and share how to make it with you while Talia’s away…
Materials.
All you need to make this scarf is an old t-shirt with no side seams, some scissors, a measuring tape,
some chalk and a sowing machine (you could hand sow it too if you don’t have a machine).
Step 1: First you need to cut off the waist band/hem at the bottom of the t-shirt and cut off
the top half where the sleeves start.
Step 2: Next you want to cut strips out of the shirt width ways in 1.5 inch intervals.
Measure and mark 1.5 inch down both sides to help with the cutting.
Step 3: Once you have cut all the strips you need to stretch the strips out. This will create
the curling effect and will also finish the edges so they don’t frey.
Step 4: Finally, collect all the strands together and sow them down. Now you have a
pretty new scarf to keep you warm. Depending the width of you shirt, you should be able to wrap it
around a few times and try many different things.
enjoy.
- kim
