Crazywork Wallhanging

This morning I trimmed and squared off, all the

Crazywork Round Robin blocks and machined the first

green satin border on to them.

I am now working on the crazywork border to

add to this. it is going to be wallhanging

approximately 40" square.

I am finding differentareas of interest all the time.

I,ll show you the progression and finished result shortly.

See more crazywork quilting on my website

www.ar2inspire.co.uk

Inked daisy Collagraph

I am trying out the new press @ The Gallery Dereham

in readiness for the new printing courses which will be running shortly.

Play time at the moment to see what the little press and we can do.

Here is the Daisy collagraph after it printed 5 little prints.

I will be teaching 'Printing Little Gems',

from September.

I really love the collagraph plates too!

I think I can see a lots more variations off this collagraph.

See more of my work on

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

Daisy Collagraph

My little collagraph of daisy's is 2.5" by 5"

and I made it this afternoon.

It consists of card,torn paper,net,sequins and threads from the bin!

It was dried very quickly in the heat of the sun and a blast with a heat gun.

I liked the plates to look as good as the prints.

Setting up the press gave me a great chance to try out the waterbased inks.

Printing Press Arrives

A couple of weeks ago a new little portable printing press arrived
@ The Gallery, with great excitment.
It was put together and given a temporary home in Hadyn's Den!
I managed to get the chance to set it up today for printing
and had a printing session this afternoon.

I have a larger version in my studio,

which presets slightly differently.
See more printing on my website
http://www.ar2inspire.co.uk/

Pats Embellishing Circle Detail

This is a embellished circle detail. It might go on the front of a book cover

or may even be a bowl!

We'll see!

Well done Pat!

Gallery Day 22nd June 2010

Look at what Pat has done with her embellishing work.

She originally was going to make a book cover but

sorted out her needles and pins and made a new case for them.

Very special!

I love all the shades in between blues and purple.

See more embellishing on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Father's Day

Stewart's younger brother and family (his wife and two sons)

were staying on the our Norfolk coast at Hunstanton at 'Searles' Park,

over the weekend and we went to see them for Father's Day.

We went on the Land Train along the coast and into town.

Our nephews loved it.

As you can see Stewart is really 'chuffed' he's got the train tickets.

We had Fish and Chips for lunch mixed in with the fun fair and later

Ice creams while admiring all the motorbikes that had parked up on the seafront.

The brass band was playing in the pavillon for all to hear.

Just a great day, lots of family photo's and memories

Rugging Workshop Sample

I have made Proddy Rugs before and I have several around the house,

using hessian as background.

I have also tried the wool 'Redicut' hook rug method too

but this is my favourite so far.

The string running through the rug loops stops the

rug from shedding it's pile!

This is what I managed to do in the few hours.

Jenny brought lots of inspiration and yarns and so did Shelia.

We were able to rip and tear to our hearts content.

It was a really lovely workshop with lots of chat and laughter too!

Thank you Jenny and the Committee for organising it.

Rugging Workshop

I am playing catch up again with all the wonderful things that happen each day.
Saturday I went to an Embroidery Guild Workshop Day
in Kings Lynn on Hooked Rag Rugging
by Jenny a Guild member.
It was with a needlehook and thread with canvas.
Here you can see a select group realy working hard.

Blue Crazywork Cushion

Here is the finished Crazywork Cushion.

I love embellishing with stitch, beading and lots of machine quilting.

I am going to put this into the Embroidery Guild Exhibition

along with The Blue Moon Embellishment.

See more of my work on my website at

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Crazywork Cushion Detail

I think seeing all the crazywork from the Round Robin

I needed to make a cushion which had been in my head for a while.

Here is a section of the centre panel.

See more cushions and crazywork on my website

www.at2inspire.co.uk

Liz and The Flower Girls

Along with the Round Robin Reveal we had a full packed evening with notices,

Show and Tell and Exhibition details.

Our big Exhibition is the 23rd and 24th of October 2010.

Our theme is,

"An English Country Garden",

so we have started

collecting and making relevant items for it,

as well as making quilts,wallhangings and

articles for stalls and raffles.

The Exhibition is held in The Porters Barn in Feltwell.

It is a Medieval Tithe Barn so we have to hang alot of work!

Here Liz is teaching some of the members how to make

tissue paper flowers. They looked fantastic

and will look great on the stage area.

The ones in the flower pots were made by

Jill and she gave us all the pattern so we can go away

and make our own!

I have got to come up with the

back drop of a Country Cottage!

Round Robin Reveal

Alveva night was very exciting for members of the group as it was

the reveal ofthe Crazywork Round Robin.

We were all eager to open our boxes and

went into another room to look at what suprises we had.

Everyone of them were different and lovely in there own way.

We were all so pleased at our quilts to be!

Mine is the green and brown one,

at the front of the picture.

Everyone chose a theme or colour of fabrics and trimmings

to put in their box

along with a sample of their own square to give

the others in the group an idea of what we were

thinking of. Mine was based in nature and Asian Textiles.

We then showed the rest of the group.

See more Crazywork on my website

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

Alveva Quilt Day

Wednesday, I spent he whole day putting together a special scrap quilt with

help from the rest of the Clark family (Stewart and Jenn)

and Linda an Alveva member.

It was a real puzzle at times as every patch/block of triangles or

squares had been made by different members of

the Alveva Quilt Group.

They were all different sizes,shapes and some ascue!

Linda walked through the door of the studio and immediately

got machining on my very old but reliable Bernina

and Jenn was on the Janome and Stewart on ironing,

pinning and tea with me!

I machined when one of the two had to move to either

iron or position their piece back in the puzzle.

We finished the front and the centre panel of the back,

cutting out the back border strips ready to sew another time.

Thank you Linda for a fantastic job of squaring up, machining and listening to the constant chatter of the Clark's!

The Quilt will look great and I'll show you it finished at a later date.

Promise!

See other quilts on my website

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

No Gallery Day

No Gallery on Tuesday due to my car deciding it is going to leak water everywhere.

We managed to get the car to the garage feeding it water as we went!

We picked up a courtesy car in the afternoon and are still waiting as it is the

Head Gasket!

The garage,Trevor Greef Motor Services Ltd,

is great and I have been on their website advertising

since they launced their website.

See what a great garage it is and a pic of me at

www.tgautos.co.uk