Thread and Thrift

My mother's little cross stitch of a log cabin quilt incorporated into a collage on a real fragment of log cabin.

Here are some new appliqués I have been working on. They are based on my daughter's drawings of china figurines. I have loved doing thes...

Something with a hint of Spring on my desk this morning .

The snow has kept me in and forced me to work on a Power Point Presentation that I will present as a lecture at the Quilters Guild AGM in Ap...

Using an appliqué quilt by Mrs Bartlett 1860 as inspiration for some appliqué designs of my own. Reconnecting with my surface pattern past.

Still exploring mixing up cross stitch in to my textile collages. Find the filling in parts ever so slightly boring!

Pretty collage , all greens  and using some really fragile silk embroidered fragments, a little bit of tapestry, old quilt. I have echoed th...