Woven Material Heart Basket

It's the month for us to remember our 'Heart', well,

loved ones and fancies!

I have always loved these woven heart baskets and

have made them in my distant past with paper.

I made these ones by bonding to layers

of fabric together and adding 'sewing love'.

See how to make them on my Tech Site

www.art2inspiretech.blogspot.com

Friday Morning With Barbara

On Friday morning I went to help Barbara,

(one of the Coven Quilters) with

a Star Quilt she had started sometime ago and getting

the pieces out again, she wasn't quite sure how they all go together.

There were strips missing from each piece and picking up a pattern

you have left for a while is always difficult.

A real puzzle!

We laid them out on the floor and it then started to come together.

I laid my original Star Quilt underneath and we began to

concentrate on one side of the quilt.

Three hours later, half the quilt star was assembled.

It will look fantastic.

Barbara hopes to give it as a gift when it is finished.

See my Star Quilt on the right of this post.

Silk Quilts and Stitch

Some of my Students come along once a month

to continue their quilt making or enjoy learning

a new technique.

Here Janice shows off her Silk Quilt, a real beauty.

It is made all from triangles and quilted by hand.

Janice is now making a quilted bed runner.

See more of what goes on at Knit Wits

by clicking on the written labels below.

Stripes

These are mother and daughter projects. Mother is making a

table runner in blue and purple strips and daughter

is making a 24" by 56" striped wall hanging in rich colours and

fabrics. lots of textures and trimmings.

Very different ideas but the same technique.

See my Banner and Strip Quilts

HERE

Quilts Making at Knit Wits

The last Thursday Quilting Session of the month is,

'Quilting and Patchwork Quilts'. This session

encourages students to tackle new techniques or Quilts

with help.

Above, are a variety of quilting styles, the top,

the beginning of a Sampler Quilt. Each week you learn

a different block, technique and this particular one is a,

'Quilt as You Go'.

The middle pictures are the start of a Rustic 9 patch,

made from a jelly roll and left over scraps.

It is often wise if you are not sure if your

colours go together, is to lay them together or

make a colour swatch, like the one above.

The Blue Windmill Triangle piece is a Sewing Machine Mat

and practices cutting and piecing triangles.

See more of my techniques on my

portfolio site

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Table Runners at Knit Wits Class

There are lots of different table runners being created at the

classes and these were ones that students had and they just needed

friendly persuasion on how to put them together and finishing.

The bottom one is from Canada and brought as a

pack but the instructions were using different rulers to what

are available here in the U.K. We all love the applique bears and the

border fabric which is to go on next.

The one above is a beautiful Christmas Runner,

very Swedish Inspired.

See more table runners HERE

Thursday 26th January Class at Knit Wits

On Thursdays it Patchwork and Quilting Class at

Knit Wits in Dereham. Lots of new projects being started

and lots of sharing.

See more by clicking the written labels below

Embroidery Guild waxing Lyrical

On Wednesday evening at The Kings Lynn Embroidery Guild

Marion Barnett, who is also an artist @ The Gallery Dereham,

came and gave us a talk on 'Waxing Lyrical'.

She showed us lots of ways of using Wax, crayons, transfer techniques

and heating encaustic wax on a heat plate

to make a mono print textile.

(See the wax on the plate above in the middle).

Marion answered lots of questions and we all

had a feel of the different types of waxed printed fabrics.

Love, Marion's dyed fabrics.

See more of Marion's work on her blog

www.artmixter.blogspot.com

Wednesday Scrapbooking Class

Kim told us it was the last ScrapBooking Session

as the company that she works for and supplies us with

all the pages, glue pads and extras has withdrawn trading in The U.K.

Sad as we all like the different things Kim brought along

to show us that was on offer and new designs.

Spent a lovely couple of hours with Kim making

scrapbook pages and organising photos,

then I sat and put more on

one of the blank journal pages I had started

putting together a Journal Cover.

See more of the journal pages HERE

See some more of my journals on my

portfolio site

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Applique Month

This month at my textile classes the inspiration has been 'Applique',

I have demonstrated 8 different ways of appliqueing

fabrics together.

Here are a few that were being worked on at

the Tuesday Class.

Photos onto Fabric

This week I took the printer in again so that students

could learn how to put their photos and pictures

onto fabric. There are lots of ways of transferring

images onto material but I like using prepared fabric

and an ink jet printer.

The images were of varied things including

fruit and veg labels (above), photographs, etchings and

original artwork.

Everyone learnt the art of preparation and patience!

I will be taking the printer in all of February.

Textile Tuesday 24th January 2012

Lots being created and shared @ The Gallery,

Textile Tuesday class as you can see by the variety above.

Embellishing inspired by rust!

It's alright making samples and trying out techniques,

then sometimes this leads to you wanting to take it further

and make a finished piece which is what

Jenny wants to do over the next weeks.

Barbara had started cutting small family football shirts and

shorts and found it a bit tricky so cut up

bigger ones instead and made the quilt above.

It has a barbed wire fabric on the back

which makes it really fun.

Now she can tackle the smaller ones.

Pat made the delightful bag out of a Chair back Cover

she found in a charity shop, beautiful!

She more of what goes on @The Gallery by

visiting the website or clicking on the labels below.

www.thegallerydereham.com