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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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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I am starting in the middle a bit with things here. This is the second quilt in a series, and I have yet to blog about the first, but I am aware that it has been a while since I posted anything and...
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I’m sorry that I haven’t been posting much recently. I usually wait until I have finished to post about my work, but the latest piece might take a while so I thought I would do some work in progress....
View ArticleJoy in work: feathers
Very occasionally I get to write one of these posts about when a piece of work just goes amazingly well. This is one of those occasions. It feels like I just turn up and provide the hands but the...
View ArticleBrave New World
You may have noticed that there have not been too many posts on my blog recently. This is because I have taken the big decision to start offering workshops. When I have given talks in the past,...
View ArticleMore good works at Pomegranate Studio
We had two days of glorious sunshine at the weekend which I took advantage of to repaint the summerhouse at the bottom of the (very short) garden at Pomegranate Studio. I was using Annie Sloan chalk...
View ArticleTurtle Egg
There has been one of my all too frequent gaps in posting. Again it is because I have been doing a lot of making, mainly on my inspired by Fabergé eggs. I have also moved on to working with wook...
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I have been busy making more pieces to illustrate my soon to launch Fabergé-inspired egg workshop, and I am going to put them on the blog in fairly quick succession. This one is one of the flat panels...
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This egg panel is very simple. I wanted to use the orange rose print just because I think it is so pretty. I tacked the fabric over a stiff card egg template, stitched almost all the way round it...
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