Here are some of the bits that I picked up last Sunday in Manchester. I am always looking out for examples of thriftiness combined with beauty and think the mosaic and crazy patchwork in these pieces demonstrate how you can combine tiny scraps of material and make something special.
Mandy Pattullo is a textile artist and printmaker who works from a studio in a converted manse in Northumberland. www.threadandthrift.blogspot.com documents her textile and design practice while www.mandypattullo.blogspot.com is about her interest in memory, loss and identity in relation to the Victorian cemetery.
You can buy Mandy's work through Etsy here: www.etsy.com/shop/MandyPattullo