This is a zigzag book that can also become a hanging if hung from the closing ring. I love poppies and my garden is always full of them, so I took this as my theme, from buds to seed through the year. The image on the left shows the first three pages, that on the...
Author: Cherry Hirsch
A second scroll
I so loved the first scroll I made that I couldn’t resist doing a second one. I’ve called it “Indigo Blues” as all the blue pieces inside are indigo-dyed fabrics. The outside is the only Procion dyed fabric and this has been stamped using acrylic paint. As I was adding stitching, along lines...
First textile book
I went to the Fashion and Embroidery show at the NEC last month and saw some fabric books on Ineke Berlyn’s stall which I really loved, so I was pleased to find that she was doing an online course for these. Five different books over a six month period. This is my first one, a...
Experiments with disperse dyes
I’ve been doing some experiments with disperse dyes after seeing a video from Linda Kemshall. I have previously used clingfilm on wet painted paper to get wonderful crinkly patterns, but Linda wanted to take this on to fabric by using the same technique with disperse dyes, pushing it further by using eucalyptus leaves laid on...
First photographic inspirations
A new year and new work. I’ve recently taken up photography again quite seriously. I took this photo of a rose in the garden on Boxing Day (one of three roses on this bush, the one I didn’t pick is still going strong today). The first work I did from this image: La rose en Chute...