Recycling Gudrun

Printing lino blocks on to pages of old Gudrun Sjoden catalogues. They will eventually be cut up ( so there won't be ladies peeping out!)  and made into cards.

Embroidered Slipper

Have been doing another embroidered slipper example today to show the students at next week's summer school. I don't make the slippers Ellie in the next studio does the hard graft and I just do the pretty bits! She is a shepherdess runs felt making workshops regularly . Check them out HERE

Starting jacket fabric collage

Starting to work on the jacket. This is the very beginning . Shows my colour scheme but much more embellishment to come….

Blank Canvas

Looking forward to working with this Scottish kilt jacket over the next few weeks. Making the masculine feminine.

Indian

I am collecting pieces of Indian embroidery when I see them. I thought I had no interest in ethnic textiles of this type but the colours, particularly the touches of neon are pulling me in. I haven't cut this one apart yet but I expect pieces will find themselves in to future collages.

Sweeping

It has been raining all day here. I was supposed to be going with friends to the Lake District but the rain has given me  a day in which to tidy up my studio. You know how it is… half finished projects, colour combination piles, fabrics everywhere. Sweeping up at the end revealed all sorts of little bits so I ended the day making a few little card collages of these "sweepings". Here are two.

Jenny Wren

Just a little advert for a course I will be running on Mon 14th and Tuesday 15th September at Burnbrae workshops near Kelso just in to Scotland. Yvette who is taking bookings says there are still a couple of places available. If you would like to book then contact her through her website at http://www.burnbraehol.co.uk
Full details of this two days course set in a beautiful location are on my web site.
Here is the type of thing you would be doing on the second day.