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My latest quilt
This is my new quilt. It is a cautionary tale really. I wanted to have a second large ‘statement’ piece in the York exhibition and so I went flat out to finish it, with predictable results. I...
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Ghost dolls at Hawkwood
I have spent most of the week at Hawkwood College just outside Stroud, Gloucestershire, on a writing retreat. I’ve been to Hawkwood before and I knew that it had a real shabby chic style in the main...
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Telling Tales – Bath Textile Artists’ New Show at Bristol Guild
It’s an exciting day today – the Bath Textile Artists’ exhibition at Bristol Guild ‘goes up’. I have to drop off my my work at 10.00 am. This is our first big exhibition for a while, and features...
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Threads of Identity V
Those of you who have been reading the blog for some time may remember that I produced a series of small pieces based on Laura Ashley fabric in a sort of memory box arrangement with other artifacts....
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What I did at the weekend part deux
As I mentioned in my last post, I had a weekend of stitch therapy after a hard week teaching the same material many times over. I finished the mourning quilt or memorial quilt that I wrote about...
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Gorgeous George
For some reason my fascination with dolls and doll-making continues. I impulse bought a book on dolls and doll makers which arrived yesterday, and I couldn’t wait to get started. The book is...
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Simon and his Laura Ashley shirt
I promise to stop posting these dolls as I can see that they are getting very similar and likely to get more so, but this is Simon, who has a Laura Ashley shirt on. I drew in the collar and tie....
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Meet Keith
I said that I wasn’t going to post any more of the Laura Ashley consort dolls until they were all finished, but a small but firm petition on Saturday convinced me I was wrong. So here is the...
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Howard
Once again, I apologise for the long gaps between posts, but yesterday I finished not one but two dolls: lovely Howard pictured here, and (D)rag Doll II who will appear later in the week. There...
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Inspirational book
Sometimes on the blog I like to give a recommendation for an inspirational book and this one, Conflict and Costume: The Herero Tribe of Namibia is wonderful. I found the book featured in...
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All our yesterdays
I have been clearing out the stuff we had to clear out from my mother-in-law’s attic in something of a hurry, and finally got round to a bag that I don’t think I have opened for at least fifteen...
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My latest Laura Ashley project
It’s been quite a while since my last post. This is mainly due to the day job which is becoming increasingly demanding. I have also been working on a couple of things which are for a Bristol...
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What I did at the weekend
On Saturday I went to Builth Wells in Mid Wales to do a talk for the area day of the Quilters’ Guild Region 12. Their small but magnificent banner is shown in the picture above. Quilters, kindly...
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What I did at the weekend
I had a great day on Sunday after a not very thrilling week. I have been working on a new series of small pieces as part of my big Laura Ashley project. I am making some little Saint Lauras as part...
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Work in progress – Little Lauras 1
My new project involves making a series of small panels of little Saint Lauras. I started by making a biggish piece of machine-made crazy patchwork, using my faithful Bernina and the Singer my mother...
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What I did on Thursday
On Thursday night I went to the Emerson Green Quilters in Bristol to give a talk on my Laura Ashley project. It was a really good evening. I was delighted to see how much they loved the things that...
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No 1 in a series of quick posts of Little Laura panels
I haven‘t done much posting recently as I have been spending so much time on my day job, and I haven‘t had that much time for my Laura Ashley projects. Plus in the dead of winter I don‘t feel that...
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Little Laura no 2
This Little Laura uses one of my favourite stitches: fly stitch. Here there are some examples used as a stand-alone stitch, but also to sew down some substantial sequins. There are also beads sewn...
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Little Laura 3
I do love an encrusted surface and this Laura has a lot of very shiny black beads appliqué-d down the right-hand-side. There is an old turquoise bead earring on the left, which I got in a lucky bag I...
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Little Laura 4
This one is the first of this series that I did. It has a very geometric stacked-up pattern feel, but the bronze on bronze pattern made with metallic machine sewing thread, here used for hand...
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