Hi all I have just finished these city skyline embroideries of places dear to me. Paris , London and my home town of Bedford. Photocopies of my own drawings have been worked on to striped and stitched fabric backgrounds with free motion embroidery used to add details to the buildings. Das clay was used to make some of the buildings which were stitched in to place to give a dimensional appearance and wired or paper cut out trees were added to embellish and help with the distance of the skyline. I really enjoyed making these pieces and thought you might like to know that they are a workshop planned for teaching in five weeks time at Tudor Rose Patchwork if your interested in something different and contemporary come and give city skylines a go.

Oh my. I hadn’t realised how long it’s been since I blogged. I have been frantically busy the last couple of months running here there and everywhere and grabbing time that wasn’t really available to slip in some projects needed for yesterday. Lol.

However I did finally managed to finish my Christmas wall hanging to demonstrate to students how a simple stamp and one pot of red paint can make a wonderful festive hanging. 

Just a quick reminder that this Saturday 7th September I will be running my Beach hut workshop at Tudor rose patchwork shop Oakley Bedford. we will be making our background from pieced stripped fabrics and adding simple machine stitching to suggest waves. The afternoon will be put aside to learn how to use the Das Clay to roll out cut and mould our Beach huts, shells and extras to make a small or several small pictures. the das clay will need to dry out and so you will do the painting and assembling of your scene at home but I will demonstrate every step in class. So come on get your self on the class, we are gonna have fun.

Oh I’ve had such fun. I didn’t think I would love playing around with Daz, making bits and bobs to collage together.

SSMixed media piece for a workshop in September. I did have fun with this. It’s great to do something that uses all those bits and bobs ip that we all keep collecting.

On Sunday just gone I spent most of the day wasting time instead of just getting down to it. So on Monday morning with a Million ideas rattling around in my head I started out to get my mixed media class sorted. Having spent the day before wasting time ( no thinking very hard) I decided to make a fabric with plenty of texture and then paint it with acrylics, inks and anything else I could chuck at it. I decided to use Angie Hughes, textile artist in this sort of approach as my inspiration (check out her book, it’s great) and I must say I really enjoyed myself . When I painted my created fabric I also painted papers in the same range of colours so that I could use them to apply to the fabric surface. I finally used my paper punches to punch the flowers and really enjoyed working with the air drying clay.
Now I just need the class to fill and my students can all have fun too