Category: Quilts and Other Textiles

It had to be poppies this month.  They are popping up all over the garden and of course poppies feature heavily this year with the commemorations of D-Day and WW1. I cut the poppies and border from a paper napkin, using bondaweb to fix this to the fabric background.  I used poppy leaves to print...

I didn’t buy any new tulips last Autumn, but many of the previous year’s “Venetian” collection from Sarah Raven came up again as well as some other bright magenta pink ones that come up year after year and are a fluted shape rather than the traditional cup shape.   I knew I had to something...

Coming home down the lane a few days ago, the fields were full of oil seed rape in full flower.  Such a vivid colour. April fields of gold I dyed a piece of thin calico using a strong lemon yellow solution which is the exact colour of the rape.  The fields have lines where the...

March Journal Quilt – Promises of Spring March has been a wonderful month – up until the last couple of days when temperatures have dropped noticeably.  But the daffodils are in full bloom, with the wild narcissus pseudonarcissus  being the first to flower.  The primroses are also flowering and the willow has begun to leaf....

March 1st Usually I have an idea in my head and then work out how to produce something from it.  This time I took one of my pieces of shibori dyed cloth  and let it speak to me.  This is the result: Title : Echoes Stitch, additional fabric paint, chalk ink stamped using an oak...