JOLLIETEXTILES

A layered piece inspired by the designs in the Coastal Walk book.

This Coastal Walk book is produced on one of the Seawhite Concertina Sketchbooks (currently on Amazon for 14.99) which are so popular now. It is basically an A5 size, double sided book made of cartridge paper, hard backed with a cardboard sheath. The style of the book allows you to work over pages in a … More September Book Of The Month – Coastal Walk

How hard it is to draw birds! Well, to make them look like the species you’re aiming for anyway! Earlier this year I read the book Homing, which has a lot to do with pigeons – mainly the homing variety used for sport. Interestingly, pigeon racing was the largest participatory sport in Britain during the … More The Humble Pigeon

Not my usual colour scheme but good to use my sketchbook designs from last autumn to make these sea buckthorn cards. I made the background some time ago – I don’t often do anything on black fabric – so just had the berries to stamp on top. Then my usual soldering iron/machining technique to add … More Sea Buckthorn Cards

I love making paella, I love eating paella and now I love drawing and stitching it! I picked up a travel brochure recently and noticed a lovely little illustration of paella to accompany an article about fresh food and the design was so inspiring I decided to make use of the idea. Firstly I painted … More Paella

Recently I purchased some lovely vintage plates – six with different designs and then another set of crescent-shaped side plates to go with them. They were made in Italy and I love the simple hand painted designs. Using these designs for inspiration I have made a concertina folded book, using bamboo pen and ink plus … More August Book Of The Month – Vegetables

This sample looks so much better in real life! The strong pink overpowers it in this photograph, but nevertheless this is a very effective technique. I found the sample yesterday, along with the instructions, so decided to try the technique again. It is taken from an article in an old copy of Stitch magazine – … More Fractured Cloth

Frinton beach in the evening light, tide going out. I took a large piece of paper down to the beach this year, along with some brusho in small spray bottles. I wanted to make a background for a folded book, using the beach as inspiration. Strewing some seaweed and pebbles on the paper, I sprayed … More July Book Of The Month – Frinton Beach

As part of my ongoing clearing and sorting of all my textile boxes I found four ‘slabs’ of painted bondaweb already ironed onto various colours of synthetic velvet. I’m not sure what any of them were going to be used for but two of them had lovely colours and the other two were rather uninspiring … More Honeysuckle and Lemons

An unplanned project – again trying to use up scraps. The flowers and leaves were already cut, left over from previous projects, most of them, but not all, trapped under a layer of net. Base fabric was a piece of wallpaper printed cotton with snipped scraps in places to add some glisten. Not very pleased … More Picture In A Day