6 x 4 Lives

The idea is to use the fabric postcard format as a journal. It is a freeform challenge to produce a fiber postcard once a month that records what you have been exploring, doing, or thinking about. The format can be used to explore telling stories visually, experimenting and exploring with techniques, or involve taking up design challenges such as experiments with colour and composition.

This is not swap challenge, but a personal challenge to share with others. The postcard can be made using any textile technique so no matter what you do the challenge is open to you.

A flickr group has been started and that is where everyone can post images of their postcards. It is called 6 x 4 lives . Each month when you post the image of your fabric postcard tell us how you did it, and if the information about the technique is online let us have a link. If there are books about it tell us what they are. Let us know what your influences were, what sparked the idea, how you tackled the design challenges, why you made creative decisions, and how you finally realised the piece. If there is a story behind it let us know what it is. It does not have to be tremendously long and involved but do share what you have learnt

Flickr is free so just join the group 6 x 4 livesand at least once a month post an image of a fabric postcard you have made that month and tell us about it. I think it will be fun and interesting.