Shibori Indigo Samples

I unwrapped my suprise parcels! from the Shibori Indigo workshop

and rinsed them through in cold water.

I am really pleased with the results.

I will try and do another Indigo session in a few weeks time.

I liked the pieces which we used beads, screws and sticks to wrap

round. I also need to investigate stitch resist more as the stitched

circle piece is really beautiful.

Thank you, Marion and Sally for a great workshop.

See more of my dyed quilts on my website

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Linda's 'Musing'

Look what arrived in the post on Saturday,

a Thank you from Linda for the wonderful

'studio crawl' we had last Sunday.

What a suprise, it was as I had only just

commented on it that morning on

Linda's post and there it is in my hands, magic!

Thank you Linda and I will put it on my

inspiration board.

See more of Linda's on her blog

www.artinspirations-linturn.blogspot.com

The Old Workshop Gallery

Next studio well, Gallery at Corpusty.

A quaint Gallery with exhibitions, garden

and Jill Hill Fashion Designer, studio come workshop in the corner.

Jill studies old costumes especially smocks and uses them in

her designs.

Above is one of her cards.

There was lots to investigate and realy good art information.

Thank you Jill for opening your Gallery

to Open Studios visitors.

Pauline Wrighton

From Sally-Ann's studio to Pauline Wrighton's Studio.

Another studio in the garden with chickens.

Pauline studio is a large modern logcabin and you can see this on her website.

Her work was so professional and her studio so inspirational.

Linda and I could have stayed all day but

more visitors were coming through the door

and we were on our studio mission.

Thank you Pauline for inspiring us and making us so welcome.

Enjoy visiting Pauline's website!

http://www.oaksidestudio.co.uk/

Mimu's Nest Sample

Look at what arrived from Mimu today in he post.

A wonderul sample of her entry for the May FAMM Challenge.

I feel very lucky to have a sample of Mimu's work as it is so

original and inspirational.

Thank you Mimu!

See Mimu's ATC she sent me on my website

http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

Back of sample Square

I always like to show the backs of my work too!

and as you can see it is labelled ready for handing in

to the Guild tonight.

Sample Stitch Square

Here is the sample all squared off ready to put into he challenge.

All the finished squares are going to be joined together to form a

wallhanging for our Exhibition at

The Kings Lynn Town Museum this Summer.

See more of my embellishments etc on

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Sample Stitch Detail

This is the detail of the sample square

and of course I had to add alot of beading!

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Buttonhole Stitched Sample

This sample square of Buttonhole stitch,random and in a round,

is for the Embroideriers Guild Challenge tonight.

It had to be 4" square, colour of our choice but we had to lucky dip the

stitch and the instructions that went with it!

This is the sample before it is squared off!

See more stitchwork on my website

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Embellished Flower Picture

This piece of embellishment finally got it's beading and finishing off today.

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Linda's Visit

Linda Turner, another fibre artist came over to visit us at

Quilters Cottage today.

We had a lovely walk and chatted about what we are working on.

Linda's found that the thread she has machine sewn has started to

disappear in certain places and the only thing we could put it down to was the polyester content, the iron being slightly too hot

or the rate at which she is sewing the strips together on the machine!!!!

If anyone else is finding this we would love to know how to solve,

or what it is,

other than use different thread.

We had a lovely lunch and then in the afternoon

Jenn sorted out our computer technical support.

Thank you Jenn for that and thank you Linda for sharing your day.

Love the Aloe Vera plant too.

See more of Linda's work on

http://artinspirations-linturn.blogspot.com/