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.
Meet Sunflower. She is my latest creative session where I went down to my studio for a couple of hours and re emerged with a fabric plant doll that I think looks great and doesn’t need to be watered. So I can’t kill it.
I have finally felt well enough to get down to it and finish the last panel for my New Zealand trip. I wasn’t at all sure about the colour combination I had chosen to layer up and stitch but now it’s all finished I am very pleased with it and think the colours work well . I particularly love my hovering humming birds in between the flowers and leaves
It was great to work with the LOVLEY ladies up in Yorkshire. Below are several pieces finished on the day
Found time to nip down my studio and play with the soldering iron and some coloured Lutradur. The colours available to purchase in light weight Lutradur are at first quite bright as they are Red, orange, yellow, brown, green , blue and black But with a little attention paid to what works with what, you can achieve bright pieces especially if soldered on to black backing fabric
As if I didn’t have enough to do. Have decided to design four new panels for my two day workshop out in New Zealand happening in July.
They are long panels rather than square and hopefully will also be my new kits for Alexander Palace Knitting and Stitching Show in October this year. Each design consists of making the background panel and then making extra elements to add and give relief. Some elements will be wired to the panel to give a 3D effect but as of yet I haven’t got that far as It all takes time and my time is always short and grabbed in between teaching. Just one mor panel to design and I’m thinking along th lines of hummingbirds and tropical flowers.
I have just got back from a long period of teaching and needed a fix with my favourite materials. ( organza)
I have spent a long time inspiring others over the last weeks and it was a real treat to find me time as nowadays it gets less and less.
This panel has been designed as one of four to be taught out in New Zealand this July.
I am going to make the panels flat and all the 3 D flowers and leaves desperately so that they travel and I can then assemble and demonstrate how to wire and attach them to the main panels at the workshop..In other words I’m going to do a textile Blue Peter Job
13 lovely ladies arrived on Friday evening for a weekend course at Alston Hall overlooking the Pennine hills . We had a wonderful three course meal and then I ruined their day and told them they were going to draw their own designs. After the initial shock they all settled down and produced really good strong designs before retiring to bed to get over the shock, some having to go via the bar for a strong toddy to help.
Saturday morning we layered up the designs and went to work on the stitching . By late afternoon some really interesting pieces were well on their way and I was so pleased with the ladies. By drawing their own designs they had taken ownership of it and once we started to cut back some of the areas to expose the hidden colours beneath, life began to flow through them. After lunch and into the evening the soldering iron took over and my ladies were happy. Everyone loves it when we get to the soldering iron bi of the technique.
I was so mores see with their work that I could of pinched every piece.
Sunday morning flew past fast with everyone trying to finish up so that we could have a final show of everyone’s work just before the finish of the weekend and lunch
Check out the ladies work below its awesome
