I took part in Kate`s toadstool swap and Catherine from Oz was my partner these lovely toadstool and a kind gift of a beautiful little cushion arrived this W/E, they are adorable
My husband who is adorable has been going bald since the day I met him,but now thanks to all that wool I have found the answer!
This is my granddaughter Olive in her wedding gear, she looks great just a shame about the socks! but get the expression. I must also thank Ernie for all his helpful comments and if he sends me his measurments I will get felting.
I have finished the on-line design course with Liz Berg, I find designing hard and with C& G`s spent hours trying to design the piece and always wrote up the design portfolio after I had finished, my pieces seem to evolve as I work on them I have trouble planning them. I now have to write a critique, and as I
, was the course worth the time and money? well Liz`s critiques were good and she helped me regarding my design failures advising ways to improve them. Only 3 of us look as if we are going to finish, so we will not have the input on others work.I have got to the end of the sheep`s fleece it is all clean and scoured , just waiting to be carded which I find quite therapeutic.
On the right the fleece is soaking in cold water to clean off the dirt & grime below is the fleece after scouring.
I then felted it onto muslin.
I just loved all the rusted quilts and textiles that purple missus was showing on her blog so I decided to splash out and buy some of the golden paints, they are lovely but not cheap,so next week the main meal of the day will be baked beans or baked beans.And I need a lot more practise to get a decent result, although I was impressed with the stamped image below in Payne`s grey which did not washout.
This book is well presented lovely photos and she uses great colour combinations,it covers tyvek,metal,air-dry clay,stamping,funfoam & laminating.Good instructions & easy to follow a good book if you are not sure about using these items
This is the laminated necklace I have made from the book,using a stamp made with a lino cut.
I am doing an online design course most of it up to now has been using paper or scraps of fabric for the designs but this week we have moved up to he grownup stuff and I have had to make small quilts.The one on the right is painted silk which was tie quilted and beaded, the photo of the plants & bananas got in by mistake
This one is much better colours in the flesh lime greens and blue/purples using procion dyed calico and scrim with a small amount of painted bondaweb.
Sorry about the previous blog I still have trouble working backwards here is the finished bag which is based on an Indian one and below is the square before it is stitched together
The piece on the right is all thanks to Maggie Gray and her fantastic blog Magstitch who taught me how to use displacement maps in paintshop I used a photo of a quilt and a scan of an old building I had painted and pushed one through the other, it is very addictive as it gives great results, and i think my husband could divorce me on grounds of desertion for the amount of time I spend playing on it.This piece was printed onto fabric and then some parts were foiled before being machine quilted.This is for a design course I am doing on line
These quilts are in the exhibition at the Needle Museum and are by Linda & Laura kemshall
on the right is Doreens masterpiece & Maddy`s is below great hearts
On the right is an example of what the quilting could have looked like below is mine on an old pair of my husbands golfing trousers.
Some of the lovely bags that Kemshall`s have made guilted & painted & foiled .
