This is really quite addictive! I’ve been playing around with it for the last week or so, trying out various ideas. This is a fairly large landscape which I have framed with black mount board in a black frame. I stuck crumpled brown tissue paper on to paper, which I then bleached. I applied colour...
Author: Cherry Hirsch
September Journal Quilt
Rudbeckias We came back from a hot south of France holiday to find the Autumn colours beginning to take hold in the garden – predominantly pinks, purples and reds of Michaelmas daisies and dahlias. But the splashes of yellow rudbeckias seemed to be the strongest colours, reinforced by the warm sunshine of an unusually dry...
Batik on tissue workshop
Oxford Summer School, Batik on Tissue with Jenny O’Leary. Fascinating workshop with really inspiring ideas to be taken further. Jenny is a wonderful teacher, encouraging us throughout to experiment and see where it takes us. These are some of my better experiments: Black tissue paper glued on to cartridge paper, trapping pieces of string and...
August journal quilt
The last allium standing I left the alliums in the garden because the seed heads are so architectural I am loth to remove them. But finally they had to go. But that’s not quite the end of them as they come indoors into vases or into the studio to be propped up in odd places....
July quilts
July journal quilt – Summer butterflies There are so many butterflies in the garden, I felt I wanted to turn my piece of compost dyed fabric with its unexpected butterfly images into a quilt for this month. The collaged butterfly at the bottom comes from a scarf I bought in Portabello market a while ago. ...