Indigo tote bag

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 of heavy calico to give extra strength and used  pieces of denim fabric for the top and bottom and handle pieces. View the Post

More umbellifers

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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 some depth and stitched again.  I added colour to the stems with Intense crayons. View the Post

Continuing the theme of unbelief’s

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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 in the sun printing.  I used free machine embroidery, some hand stitching and french knots on the appliquéd Evelon pieces before quilting the whole piece. View the Post