Category: Quilts and Other Textiles

  I love the first bag I made and decided to make one as a birthday present for a friend.  The indigo patches are from fabrics that had been dyed either by her or by me, so it felt appropriate to use them for this. Inside I have used a piece of ice dyed fabric:...

Whilst in Bangkok last December I saw some beautiful info tote bags for sale – quite expensive, so thought I would make my own.  I’m really pleased with the way it turned out, using fabrics I bought in Japan and an Indian fabric as the lining.  I zigzag stitched the outer fabrics onto a piece...

Umbellifers continue to intrigue me and I wanted to attempt something a little different.  My inspiration was some pastel sketches I did of hogweed against the fields and sky.  I glued down scraps of fabric with bondaweb and then stitched one layer of seed heads. I then added some pieces of transparent silk fabric to give...

I had some pieces of umbellifer printed Evelon remaining from the textile book based on these flowers, as well as sun printed fabric, so decided to make a quilt.  The central background area is sun printed, the top and bottom are procaine dyed.  I painted the binding with the same red paint I had used...

December journal quilt December moon I got up early one morning when the moon was full and the fields covered in frost, full of reflected light and shadow. The hand dyed foreground has been stitched, rolled over with white acrylic paint and then slashed between the stitching, cut away in places to reveal the layers...