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My name is Elaine Archer and I am interested in all forms of creative embroidery and mixed media.  I enjoy both hand stitching and machine embroidery but particularly like creating textural surfaces for stitch.  I’m also partial to a bit of glitz!  Inspiration comes from the Suffolk countryside where I live but also from the beautiful scenery of Britain’s coastal paths.  I belong to two groups, Creative Stitch and Raw Edge, the latter an exhibiting group.  Jollietextiles is my opportunity to share what I love doing – stitching, painting and drawing.

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Beaded Oak Leaf

November 12, 2019

Last week at Creative Stitch one of our members, a talented beader, guided us in a shibori leaf project. When planning we prepared a length of silk to use on one half of the leaf design – a thin strip, wrapped around a bottle and tied tightly with crochet cotton. I’m sure that this is … More Beaded Oak Leaf

Sutton Hoo

November 6, 2019

This week I have visited Sutton Hoo to see the new exhibition centre and while there we walked the trails around the estate. I was taken with the ferns and how they displayed so many colours, despite the damp, murky conditions. In these photos the brown fronds almost look purple. We strolled around the River … More Sutton Hoo

Japanese Folder

October 24, 2019

I have collected lots of paper scraps and ephemera from a recent trip to Japan, all with a particular project in mind. I want to make a folder to keep all my postcards and leaflets in from something called ‘fabric paper’. This is a technique from a super book I have, quite old now, called … More Japanese Folder