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van Gogh inspiration – neutrals
The prompt for this exercise was to use cretan stitch in neutral shades. I felt a bit of a cheat as I used some of my lovely variegated thread from Winifred Cottage (sadly no longer available), and...
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Six pear notebooks
Over the Bank Holiday weekend I have been making strenuous efforts to clear up my work room – photographic evidence to follow. But, in my experience, there is only so much clearing up you can do...
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What I did at the weekend
This weekend was spent filling up the reservoir, as it were, as I spent a lot of time with my Grate Frend Beatriz at exhibitions and in art shops. On Friday we went to the blockbuster exhibition...
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What I finished off at the weekend
I am still working on this large Laura Ashley wall piece, although there are other things I should be getting on with. As I mentioned in a previous post, I lost all interest in this piece and so I am...
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Alison Moger at Bristol Quilters
This post is about lovely Alison Moger’s visit to Bristol Quilters last night, but it is also about synchronicity and that feeling that the whole world is coming together to help you in your work,...
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You win some, you lose some
I came across Carla Sonnheim’s blog as part of a weekly challenge that I periodically dash to catch up with. Sonnheim has lots of ideas for doing art with children as well as stuff for adults and is...
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House and home
This is a quick post today, to some extent to show I am still alive. I am planning a series of events with a visiting quilter from the US, Marybeth Stalp, and one of them involves a workshop in which...
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Fabric pictures of houses
Quick post today. Yesterday was the first event on the schedule that I have drawn up with my visiting US quilt scholar academic, Marybeth Stalp. As part of the workshop, I made up some packs for...
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Dragon hide no 1
The theme of my favourite conference, SCOS, this year is The Animal, and my grate frend, Beatriz and I have decided to do some work together. We are going to make a piece each week for twenty-five...
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Dragon Hide No 2
As suggested by the title, this is the second blog post on my series on dragons with my grate frend, Beatriz Acevedo. This is another piece which has a lot of stitching on it because I had time over...
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Dragon Hide 3
This is the third dragon hide in my series with my Grate Frend, Beatriz Acevedo. I am aiming for 25, but we’ll see how far I get. This one is made from a bag of beads I got for three pounds in a sale...
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New quilting design
I have been working on a project with the wonderful Paula Hyde at Manchester Business School which has involved making pieces together. This is the second stage of the one Paula started: Hers is the...
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Inspiration
There has been a considerable gap in my blog as ill health has been stalking the land with me and the Medieval Historian both. Things are a bit better now, so I thought it was time to get the blog up...
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C is for children’s art
Some of you might know that I have been on quite a lengthy period of sick leave. One of the things that I have done during this time is to follow a web-based mixed media art class. It follows the...
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Bjorn Wiinblad meets Elizabeth Taylor meets Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile
Basically today is a photo gallery of the pieces I made based on Bjorn Wiinblad’s paintings. This one has hair made of hearts which were cut out with a sizzix cutting machine. Once I discovered that...
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Little piece of improvisation
Just a quick post. This is a little panel – 12″x12″ which was an improvisation as part of my on-line art class. The starting point was to have a person, an animal and a plant. You had to change...
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Laura the fox takes a moonlight stroll in her new lacy black stockings
Last week I went to Bristol Quilters’ workshop with Mandy Pattullo. I had a great day. Mandy Pattullo is an artist whose work I have admired since I saw it at the Festival of Quilts a couple of...
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More embroidery
My last post was about the fox piece that I started at the Mandy Pattullo workshop I attended. I really like Mandy’s work and I wanted to do a bit more with some of the ideas that we discussed at the...
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More applique
This is the latest of my Mandy Pattullo/Laura Ashley pieces. The background is pieced paper (English method) hexagon patchwork with an overlay of Laura Ashley fabric applique. I had thought that I...
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Still more applique
This piece is backed onto some curtain interlining and then washed in hot water to give it a vintage feel. This particular interlining seems to turn into tungsten steel when you give it this...
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