fabric page

Have started making a new wallet book and here is the middle page spread. Much brighter than I usually work but am enjoying that pink and black! I will reveal more as I work through the book.
I am running a course on making wallet books at The Hearth in May and there are still places left on the course if you are interested. Details HERE

Spring

We arrived in Kraków with buds on the trees and two days of warm sunshine has made them spring in to life with sharp bright greens everywhere. I was going to embroider dark flowers on this collage but the green leaves on the trees in "the planty" just got to me.

Home now and Spring has arrived even in the north of England.

Kraków

Spending the weekend in sunny Kraków, researching folk costume and Polish traditional crafts.

 

 

 

 

 

This textile collage is a bit like my allotment. Nothing much going on but getting ready - fleece over the broad beans, old bits of carpet suppressing the weedy paths and some patches dug and some with manure still sitting on the surface. I quite like it as it is but over the next week will bring it in to new life with some green shoots, which in the north of England are just starting to appear. Having a garden or allotment makes you aware of how precious our environment is and how important GREEN is every Spring. Will post next week when I have embroidered some life on to it!

So impressed

So impressed with my family and their magpie skills.. My husband managed to find this beautiful silk log cabin for me on his travels and my daughter a wool crazy quilt. They want me to cut them up and start making but I think I will just admire them whole for a while! 

Tiny

Some tiny collages made today specifically for cards.

Winifred

Here are some pictures to give you a flavour of what the students on today's workshop were trying to achieve. They were working in a textile collage style in response to a Winifred Nicholson pairing and these pictures are very much of unfinished work but some lovely pieces emerging.