Category: Quilts and Other Textiles

Layers of decay There are a lot of leaves still hanging on the trees, there is colour there too, but those on the ground are disintegrating into muddy piles with all the rain we have had. The background is a piece of leaf printed fabric, overprinted with leaf shapes cut from compressed foam, using acrylic...

An abundance of perry pears There is a steady thud as the pears hit the ground.  Unfortunately the local farmer is not making perry this year and when I tried to juice some with my cheap juice maker it was not successful.  The background fabric is lightly dyed cotton/linen sheeting that I had rollered over...

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...

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 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. ...