A Village Quilter

It's a minor miracle but I've actually finished a couple of things. The first photo above is the example that Brenda pinned up for our class last week. The idea is that we paint / colour pages and use these as our sketchbooks and use them to develop ideas and audition fabrics. As you can see - Brenda's are very good. Below is my completed four page sketchbook. The idea was to use lots of different techniques to colour the pages, acrylics , watercolour, pastel chalks, oil pastels and scrunched up tissues paper. Stitching on the paper was OK - if you went slowly - and of course I'll change my needle now as I'm sure it must be rather blunt. This page has a photo on with samples of fabric added. A photo with the picture extended by stitching - with a gauze to distort it. This page includes examples of stitch patterns on felt plus photos. And finally a page of threads corded to the page with some netting added and cut. The idea really was just to have a play - I've...

Well what a great day I had yesterday at the launch of the thr 3fold magazine. This is a photo of the room where the event was held at Ironbridge . The room was very light and airy and drinks were provided on arrival. The day was made up of demonstrations and then a lecture explaining the works of Linda, Laura and Catherine (who form half of SIX ). I can't say how generous the hosts were with their explanations of the techniques they used within their art. Looking at the quilts after these explanations really added another dimension of appreciation of their work. I was also really impressed with their sketchbooks - I've included a photo below of one of the pages(this is one of Catherine's). They had so much detail and really gave ideas about what you could do - really anything goes - you've just got to do it. The next two photos show a quilt and the detail of one of Linda's quilts. I love how she has extended the photo transfer of the tree with painting the br...