Felt Nuno workshop 19th Feb

Hi, I ran another felt nuno scarf workshop last sunday @unittwelve Tixall, went very well nearly a full house, 7 lovely ladies attended and made 7 lovely scarves unfortunately I only took a few photos before my camera memory was full. Here they are anyway.

Carolyns scarf still wet but the silk will be all floaty when dry.

This is a new design of mine, shown as an example, the circle of wool fibres will shrink and pull the silk rectangles into yummy crinkly shapes, I put wool circles on every rectangle, making a long skinny scarf.

Robbies scarf and rose brooch again wet but will look lovely and floaty when dry.

Susans double sided scarf made using viscouse fabric worked very well and gave a more substancial feel.

I am working on some samples of vessels to do another workshop in the spring.

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.