January’s journal quilt Looking from my window down to the Severn, I can see the river has flooded onto the fields in several places. I attached all the pieces with bondaweb. The fabric is all hand dyed, with some addition painting and the trees stamped on. February 6th I went for a walk on one...
Category: Quilts and Other Textiles
Monthly Journal Quilts 1
I have decided to make a small journal quilt each month, inspired by whatever is around me. This is the first one I made for November, but I wasn’t totally satisfied , so did another: I was struck by how much colour there is still around this year so late in the season, lots of...
Memories of Istanbul – the completed piece
Finally it’s finished! My evaluation of the piece I kept to my inition vision of a hanging inspired bythe plaque I had seen hanging by a doorway in Istanbul. The main difficulty was how to incorporate all the images I wanted to include, but this became easier once I had made horizontal divides rather than...
silk and lace – work done during a week with Val Holmes
I spent last week in Luçon in France doing a week long workshp with Val Holmes entitled Silk and Lace. This was originally one piece which I subsequently separated into two pieces using the embellisher, rather than tearing or using scissors, to produce a textured edge. The paper is made using gummy silk cocoon strippings, ...