How the days fly by!

I can't believe it's been so long since I last posted. I'm a bit rusty, lets hope I can still make this work!

Lots of stitching has occurred in the last year, well not that much, but enough. Heaven knows if I can get my act together to post the piccies!

Lutterworth Guild has just had its annual exhibition in the Wycliffe Church. It was a much improved venue since all the fixed pews have been removed and all the work was easier to access for a closer look. Obviously there was a mad rush to complete pieces of work for inclusion in the show - there's nothing like a deadline to get you moving!

Just some of the pics of the exhibition.

I'll try and keep on top of of this blogging lark if it kills me!

Workshops coming out of my ears!

Just a quickie. Off to a morning workshop tomorrow in Leamington Spa with Tracey, my sister-in-law. I think we're making vessels with water soluble. Just need to take machines, glitzy bits and sheers. It's with Arthur Ridley, who ran a workshop not long ago at Lutterworth Guild making Venetian masks - which I still haven't finished!

I've been working on another workshop piece from a week last Saturday with Jenny Rolfe. I've really enjoyed this one. At the moment I'm decorating the first three panels. They are quilted and appliqued with batik cottons. Now I'm adding the beads, buttons and sequins, then they'll have to be edged and joined together. Look out for some pics soon.

There's some wet felting in another bag lurking in my room, from a workshop four weeks ago. I really need to sort that out before it goes mouldy!

Will try and sort some pics.

A Sad Time

I meant to update by now, but I'm just getting over the shock of losing one of our cats. Luka, the boy, was knocked down and killed on Monday morning on our relatively quiet road outside the house. I didn't find him until late afternoon, so it didn't leave us much daylight to bury him. It's so, so sad. He was so characterful, long legs, very long tail, big pointy ears and saucer-like eyes. He didn't much like being picked up, he'd winge and wriggle, but he still liked a lot of fuss. I shall miss him so much.

Well, here it is. The embellished fabric was cut to wrap over the edges of the canvas which I painted first with acrylic paints. The cut edges of the fabric were bound with a fabric tape, zig-zagged on. Then hand stitched across the panel. I've not finished it yet, but you get the gist.

I can't believe it, it's snowing again and I'm soooooo cold. Can't wait for the heating to come on!

Recent stuff!

I've been on a few workshops recently. An embellishing one with Viv Denscombe, where we created an abstract picture, mounted onto a small block canvas. It was a good opportunity to use my embellishing machine.

I'm working on a second one, oblong this time, same colours, with a bit of hand stitching - cretan stitch. Planning to add some beads or sequins, maybe both! This time I'll have an embellished fabric top and bottom with a gap between.

I'm trying to add more pics, but they keep appearing in the wrong place, so I'll stick them on a separate post.

Just starting out!

Hello out there! Thought it was about time to try my hand at blog creation. I must have spent about a year now, reading loads of textiley blogs and never having the guts to do my own. That's probably because I don't tend to express myself very well, especially in words. So I'm about to try and change all that.

I hope to share my textile efforts and other things that interest me, like gardening, arts and crafts. We shall see..