The recent potato printed napkin that I highlighted in my last post is now finished. Hand stitched with chunky threads with the addition of some rusty washers and some little plastic beads. I really enjoyed doing it, so bought some more potatoes and spent this morning cutting two more stamps and printing onto paper and … More Potato Printing
One of the great things about coastal walking is the number of interesting buildings you can encounter on your way. Since walking the South West Coastal Path I have become very interested in lighthouses, particularly the rock lighthouses that were constructed around the coastline of the UK. The feats of engineering that were involved are … More Dovercourt Lights
Recently I needed to hastily empty my flower press so that I could lend it to a friend and pressed inside were a dozen roses from my birthday last year. I had forgotten all about them! The roses were originally beautiful colours, a mix of amber and burgundy and I thought they might be worth … More Flowers and Leaves
I made this cushion today, after experimenting with my Gelatos on fabric. I’d been wanting to try this for a while, after seeing the potential of these lovely creamy pigment sticks. Yesterday I tried the Gelatos on a variety of fabrics but the panel above is all layered up on a calico base. All colour … More Gelatos On Fabric
The week before last we were in Norfolk and enjoyed an evening stroll along the beach at Cromer. During beach walks I inevitably pick up little bits and pieces and below is a photo of the items I collected that evening. There aren’t many shells on Cromer beach but I just wanted to find odd … More Evening Stroll
This isn’t a new piece, rather something I found in my ‘velvet’ box which I thought should be mounted up as it’s long and thin and not useful for anything in particular. It’s made on a black synthetic velvet base, with applied shapes in silk velvet. I have then free machined some details, using cable … More Velvet Blooms
I spent rather a lot of time today attempting a ‘textile’ wedding card, sewing an awful lot of beads and sequins onto a wedding cake made of scraps of quilted fabric sandwich. I even painted little bits of lace to trim – the whole thing looked a mess! So this afternoon I sat down with … More Wedding Cards
I am trying to build up some coastal elements – pebbles and plants – in a variety of separate little pieces, with a view to combining them in some way. It’s really just an excuse to experiment and a good way to use up some of my materials. Here I have stencilled some Xpandaprint through … More Lacey Lutradur
When I was teaching my first workshop, The Midas Touch, I made samples to demonstrate the various stages of the technique. I taught that particular workshop many times, so I have a stack of part realised samples that have never been stitched. I decided to work on this one recently as it seemed a good … More Black Is ……. Black
Last week we were lucky enough to be in Cornwall stepping back on the South West Coastal Path. We stayed at Mevagissey and on the last day, ‘proper’ walking all finished, we strolled down to the harbour and I took lots of snaps of the fishing nets, baskets and chains all around the waterside. Mevagissey … More Fishing Harbour
