Thursday 26 May 2011

Machine Embroidered Leaves

Jeanette's new mixed media textile work is based on Autumn Leaves and
is inspired by a community wallhanging picture she saw in a magazine.
She wants to learn many different ways of making leaves and
Next week is printing and painting the background
fabric to the work and designing more foliage.
See more of Jeanette's work by clicking on the labels below.

Gallery Workshop Afternoon




Gallery Mixed Media Tuesdays are in two sessions, 10am-12.30
and 12.30 until 3pm.
As you can see there are a lot of different textiles being
worked on, Machine Embroidery, Machine Quilting
Patchwork and Embellishing in this afternoon session.
Rebecca and Frivella had come to have an Embellisher
Taster Session to learn my techniques and to get used to their machines.
See more at what is going on @The Gallery

Gallery Tuesday 24th May 2011

Sylvia is trimming the free machined quilted cot quilt for her
future Great Grand Child.
She began classes in January for the sole purpose
of making a quilt for her expected Great Grand Child then.
She made a beautiful animal quilt and it was given to her
new Great Grand Daughter.
The next month a large envelope arrived in the post
with lots of bits of yellow fabric and some animal squares,
with the plea from her other Grand Daughter who was
expecting.
"Please can you finish this I don't know what to do!"
Sylvia laughed and we made sense of the odd
cut strips and patches already cut out and she put it
all together as you can see above.
I few bits of piecing had to go on for the back!
Sylvia loves Machine Quilting and it looks really great.
It's having red bias binding to finish it off.
A very lovely Great Grandma Gift!
See more of Sylvia's work by clicking
on the labels below.