Category: Work from Courses and Workshops

This third book is based on the Japanese concept of Wabi Sabi. This is the art of finding beauty in imperfection.  The word wabi can mean humble by choice, sabi, the appreciation of rustiness.  However, it is said that if you ask a Japanese the meaning of the words, they cannot translate them, which leads...

This is a zigzag book  that can also become a hanging if hung from the closing ring. I love poppies and my garden is always full of them, so I took this as my theme, from buds to seed through the year.   The image on the left shows the first three pages, that on the...

I so loved the first scroll I made that I couldn’t resist doing a second one.  I’ve called it “Indigo Blues” as all the blue pieces inside are indigo-dyed fabrics.  The outside is the only Procion dyed fabric and this has been stamped using acrylic paint.     As I was adding stitching, along lines...

I went to the Fashion and Embroidery show at the NEC last month and saw some fabric books on Ineke Berlyn’s stall which I really loved, so I was pleased to find that she was doing an online course for these. Five different books over a six month period. This is my first one, a...