Landscape commission

I have been slightly out of my comfort zone and made a landscape with a cottage and no birds, quite enjoyed it and very happy with the end result. The customer supplied most of the fabrics which were left over's from soft furnishings in their lounge.

Yellowstone Art Boutique Trentham Gardens Staffs

Just Delivered a commission from Yellowstone Art Boutique, hope the customer likes it, I am pleased with it.
Also delivered another 5 bird embroideries and apparently 2 sold that same day, better get making again.

The last one has no birds in it.......shock horror.....does have a butterfly.

I will be having an exhibition at Yellowstone early next year.

Free machine embroidery Stafford College workshop day

Nov 5th another very successful free style machine embroidery day making bird embroideries, photos above.

free machine embroidery workshop 17th September

Had another very successful workshop last Saturday lots of lovely bird embroideries made.

This workshop was over subscribed so I will be running another one mid January 2012

Paper making workshop Tixall Stafford

Had a lovely paper making day last Saturday 14th August, we made a variety of papers from recycled papers and fabrics and foliage, I demonstrated how to mix colours on the deckle and how to couch multicoloured papers, the results were great. Here are some work in progress photos.

In the afternoon we made some silk paper sheets and then some silk paper vessels.

This vessel has silk chiffon fabric to add design, silk and  hemp to add texture.

Tea Cosies

Hi Been busy making Egg Cosies, Tea Cosies and Coffee Cosies, they are machine embroidered with my trade mark birds on them, but this time they are in a cage, the Tree of Life fabric, I love, it was given to me, it is really yummy cloth, top quality soft furnishing quality, linen and cotton mix I think. They have one side tree of life fabric and one side with a bird in cage embroidered on it, I may make some with a bird in a tree embroidered on them with tree of life leaves.

Felt making workshop july 2011

Unit 12, Tixall heath farm, Stafford 16th July 2011
I had a lovely day yesterday, teaching felt making to a lovely group of ladies, they made a sample, to get there hands in, a felt rose brooch and then a silk and wool nuno felted scarf. judging by the feed back everyone really enjoyed the day and learnt lots and were happy with there products. Photos of the day and their work follow.

General view of the room and busy felters.

 The samples they produced.

 Felt rose brooches

All of the scrves are still wet in these photos, so they will look even more yummy when dry and floaty.