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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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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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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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Red Rabbits
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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A new project
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....
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Joy 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...
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Brave 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,...
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More 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...
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Turtle 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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Turquoise egg
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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