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Hellebore wall hanging

4/27/2014

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I've finally finished my hellebore hanging and it will be getting its first airing during the Craft and Textile Trail in Stroud.  www.sitselect.org
  I like the way it changes colour with different light.
I have had this design in mind for so long now and am quite relieved  to have finally completed it. I love the way these flowers appear like magic at the end of the winter and hope to have captured that feeling in this piece.
I am sharing Cath Kingzett's workshop at One Fat Quarter Sewing Workshop, Tradeplas Building, Stroud Road, Nailsworth, GL6 OBE and we will be there from Saturday 10th May until Sunday 18th May from 11am to 6 pm. We are having a day off on Wednesday 14th May.

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Here is a detail of the flowers.

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March and April Figure Journal Quilts.

4/20/2014

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The background is constructed with a chenille technique, cutting through several layers of fabric

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The April piece has a scrap collaged background which is machine stitched. The figures are digitally printed then stitched.

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Hellebore progress

4/20/2014

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I'm staying at a lovely farm called Bodrugan Barton near Mevagissey with a group of friends. We are all working on our own projects and I have brought down my hellebore wallhanging. I've stitched each individual flower element now and am turning the edges ready to appliqué it on to the velvet background.


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I finished making the individual flowers, but there seemed to be too much contrast on the bottom right flower so I spent the day making another one. Last night it looked much better but this morning there seemed to be not much difference. I guess it was the natural light. I'm looking forward to attaching the pieces to the background now.

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Hellebore beginnings

2/11/2014

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I've used recycled velvet for the background and am "stitching" the fabric with a soldering iron at the moment.

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Hellebores

2/11/2014

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These are my hellebore flowers in my garden. They are magical flowers and give such pleasure at this time of the year.

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These were photographed last year but are beginning to show now.

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I've been looking at a design on my wall for nearly a year now, just not entirely sure of the technique I was going to use to make it. Either I discard it or just do it- so I have!

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Journal Quilts based on figures 2014

2/11/2014

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This is the first of a series of line and texture pieces which I am making as part of the CQGBI Journal Quilt project. I found some pages of quick sketches that my son had discarded after Christmas. They have a lot of energy and movement so I have used them as a basis for 12 pieces. They will be completed one a month.



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The background of the first piece for January is made from scraps of collaged scrim and then hand stitched on the surface with linen and silk thread. The foreground is machine stitched appliqued calico with a zig zag free machined stitch.
The background of the second piece is stitched with shirring elastic on scrim and the appliqued with a double needle.

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Traditional quilting

1/27/2014

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Naughty dog checking out my stitching!
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I've been making some traditionally pieced quilts over the holiday period. I had forgotten how satisfying it is to make functional items from time to time. One was a double bed size quilt made for my son in a very simple rectangle pattern, the other is a little cot quilt with a contemporary feel. I also finished a king size quilt which was a block designed by Katherine Guerrier many years ago. She had displayed it at Malvern one year and I was asked to make a copy. Unfortunately the client had no idea of the time taken to construct it and the cost of fabric so I declined to make her one, but out of interest made a block in order to calculate how long it would have taken. One block grew in to many and it sat folded up on a shelf for quiet a few years until I decided to get it long arm quilted by Midsomer Quilters. I am delighted with the result and can now use it, not feel guilty that I didn't stitch it and get on with new more challenging projects for 2014.


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Twilight Exhibition Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth.

11/10/2013

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More prints

11/7/2013

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The picture on the left has been machine stitched. This one is hand stitched.

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Fifty shades of brown revisited.

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Twilight

11/5/2013

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The sun prints I painted in the summer are now stitched and mounted. Some are hand stitched and others are machined as well. On this one I machine stitched a line drawing of the skeleton tree that I can see across the valley from my shed. It has actually got a few more leaves now - must have been all that rain earlier on in the year. I shall be showing them at an Exhibition at Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth at the end of this month - Twilight - I will post a flyer with details later.
I also further stitched my "Fifty shades of brown "moth piece. The background was quite dominant and by adding lines of running stitch in the background I think it looks better. I decided to continue the design into the border. I have now mounted the piece on a light coloured linen.

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This piece, Lilac Moths, has been entirely hand stitched. The ferns show up well against the background and I've stitched a light running stitch in between the leaves.
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This shows more detail of the hand stitching  and the print of a moth.

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