More Sketchbook

Chartreuse

I have been meaning to start some work using a bit of a green palette and mixing very fine things like exquisite embroidery and silks with rough worn "stable boy" patchwork. Here is the first little collage. Applique and embroidery.

Selvedge

I am featured in the latest edition ( Jan/Feb 2014) of SELVEDGE.  5 pages of photos and a ghood article written about me by Dr Susan Marks.

Another thing to do with hexagons

Sketchbook page. January is sketchbook month as its the only month I don't teach and have time just to play.... I will be showing you some more pages over the next month. Clever people could probably insert a little film of turned pages  at this point but I haven't gopt the skills sorry!

Wolves are back

Wolves are back in Europe according to this weekend's papers. Never gone away for me! Here is one I finished this weekend.The best I have ever done I think, If you think it looks like a husky thats also OK! Now on Etsy.

What to do with hexagons

The very first patchwork I did back in 1977 was hexagons. I became enthusiastic after watching a BBC series on patchwork fronted by Rosamund Richardson and the book that accompanied the series and a Laura Ashley near by selling scraps pushed me in to starting patchwork and here I am today. I have a few old bits of hexagons that I have been given or collected and have always struggled on how to use them but am determined to incorporate them in some way. Here's one attempt.....

Embroidered Flower on Tumbling Blocks Quilt Fragment

Bought a new quilt to cut up before Christmas and down time in front of period drama over the last few days has allowed me to try out a new range of work, embroidering folk art style  flowers on to the surface. I feel a whole folk art flower phase coming on as I received a wonderful  ( and very expensive) book for Christmas called "Patterns and designs from Muhu Island" which I think is going to influence me for a while.