Hungry Caterpilla at Watton

Wow! What a wonderful Friday we all had at

Watton Community High School.

The 150 students from local Junior Schools

had their induction activity day to High School.

The activities were fantastic,

Archery,Climbing Wall,Spider Web,

Team Building, Eco Tunnel and Art.

In my role as

Breckland Community Artist,

I lead Art session all day with around 30 students at a time.

The theme of the day was based on, 'Transition.

As you can see by the end of the day every student

had had a good day and waved their

'Hungry Caterpillar', in the air in approval.

Thank you to all the students, staff and

Sue Lee, the organisor of the event.

I look forward to many more!

See more of my art events on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Caterpillars on Parade

In my role as a Norfolk Community Artist I have been preparing for

an art session at a local Junior School where I will be using the

these parading caterpillas. I have made 160 packs of them!

There are 84 here on the table!

See my website post for 'The Hungry Caterpilla' board.

www.art2inspire.co.uk

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

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Gallery Day 13th of July 2010

Pat has nearly finished her 'Favours' she's making.

She is now continuing with the Embellisher making the

embellished felt material to make brooches and cards.

See more of what goes on @The Gallery

http://www.thegallerydereham.co.uk/

Crochet Day

I am playing catch up with my blog with

all the wonderful things I have been doing lately.

On Sunday I went back over to Rockland Allsaints to Marion's Studio

to learn crochet with a select group of ladies

who were already crocheting but wanted to learn more.

Now, I am self taught and as several of you know I do freeform

or 'scrumble' crochet.

So to learn properly and boy! did I learn.

I learnt that I have been wrapping my thread round the wrong way!

(that explains some of the twisting). Also double and trebles,

thats what the stitches were!

Anyway, as you can see we made some flower brooches.

The above are mine. I made the brown one on the day and

I carried on when I got home so I didn't forget.

I am going to dye the cotton one with Indigo.

Thank you so much for such a lovely day Marion .

I am definetly going to continue.

A twisty scarf next!

See my scrumbles on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Indigo Dyeing Workshop

On Saturday I went over to Rockland Allsaints to the studio of Marion Baker,

whose studio I had visited on the Norfolk Open Studio scheme.

Marion and Sally Mills were giving a Shibori Indigo workshop.

Well, what a day, of learning so many techniques,

laughing and sharing in the sweltering heat.

Perfect day for Dyeing though and drying fabrics.

The Indigo Vats were set and ready and the magic began.

Putting our prepared stitched and wrapped fabrics

in and watching them change colour in front of our eyes.

The deep rich blue, Indigo is famous for.

We had a wonderful lunch in the garden under the shade of some trees.

But we couldn't unveil our treasures as they have to dry and cure

for a few days. I am going to open mine this afternoon.

I'll post my results soon.

Thank you so much to Marion and Sally

for making it such a wonderful day for all of us.

See more of my dyed fabrics within my art on

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

A Visitor to the Garden

Look at this cheeky visitor to our garden on Saturday morning.

She had the front to drink out of the bird path and then

stroll around the garden eating the tops off my new plants!

Sweet peas and all.

It's funny though because I just watched her and chuckled.

I couldn't bare the thought of scaring her because she might have run into the road,

which is the other side of the hedge.

I know she crossed it to get in!

She wandered down the garden and by the look of our raised onion bed,

slept there most of the day while we were all out.

We walked down the garden late afternoon to water

the green houses and hadn't realised she was still there.

Our voices startled her and she ran down the path into the

the corn.

They are wonderful creatures but really make a mess of a garden!

Linda's Quilt

Ah! Ah! Linda caught me out this week!

I booked last week with Linda to spend Wednesday afternoon

in my studio, layering and safety pinning her quilt together, using my 6ft by 8ft table.

But when Linda called round in the afternoon,

Jenn and I were nearly asleep because of the heat, watching a

girlie film in the living room!

I had to giggle and so did Linda as my work table and studio was full of

pre- exhibition and prep work.

After we cleared a space and the table we set to.

Look at Linda's Quilt isn't it fantastic?

A real 'Colourwash' Quilt!

See more of Linda's work at

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

In The Newspaper

I'm in our local newspaper this week advertising the

Kings Lynn Embroidery Guild Exhibition at

the Kings Lynn Museum.

It's a really nice article with all the information about our group and the dates

of our different demonstrations.

Such as Tassel and Cord Making, Embellishing, Stumpwork,

Hand Pieced Patchwork, Locker Hooking,Machine Embroidery and much more.

Visit The Museum website to enjoy more

http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/

Embellished Card Detail

Each one of the Embellished cards are different.

See more of my Embellishments on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Embellished Cards

Finished making some embellished cards today.

I just love working with the blue range of materials.

These will be on sale in The Gallery.

See more of my Embellishing on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Demonstrating Embellishing

This morning was the first day of

The Kings Lynn Embroiderer's Guild Exhibition

at The Kings Lynn Museum.

Photographer Alan Miller took this photograph

of me and The Editor took the details of the

Exhibition and they were also researching

the exhibits of the Museum to put on the

Kings Lynn News website.

The Guild Exhibition is a variety of work entitled

'East Anglia'.

It is on until the 20th of August.

There are demonstrations by members

of the Guild most days and these are on the

Kings Lynn News website.

www.lynnnews.co.uk

Gallery Day 29th June 2010

Lots of moving around at The Gallery today.

Each artists who exhibits, has there own presenting area for the next few weeks.

So I moved 'The Toxic Stack' and 'Red Quilt' over to the corner.

They really compliment each another!

I now have to figure out how to display all my mixed media exhibits to give my area some cohesion!

Workshops carried on as usual,

interspearsed by visitors and customers who were interested

in what was going on.

There were also two teenagers from the local High School,

participating in the work experience week.

They helped me in the afternoon to set up a print station ready for

the printing workshops which are coming soon.

Great fun sorting through materials and all the different sorts of Paper!

Also news that building work had started on the new Art Centre where

The Gallery will be moving into next year.

See more of the 'Red Exhibition'

http://www.janeclarkarts.com/

Doorstops

With the weather being so hot I have needed the doors open throughout the

house and studio.

Keeping the doors open with an array of objects is becoming annoying,

so today I came up with these contemporary looking

Doorstops.

I made 3 pairs.

One of each pair I will take and put on sale, in The Gallery tomorrow.

They definetly work and look good too!

See more of my work on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Stewart's Birthday

Stewart's Birthday today!

So we headed off to, 'The Hare Arms', at Stow Bardolph.

The history of this country pub is really worth looking up

on their excellent website.

The original building dates back to The Napoleonic Wars and Nelson.

We started with coffee and then lunch with a Birthday drink in their gardens

which are shared by Peacocks,white and blue!

Isn't this one just beautiful?

(See more on the website).

Plus an array of different types of chickens!

We've kept chickens in the past so we enjoy their little funnies!

The quail was trying to escape it's run

and was digging some really decent escape tunnels!

We had a lovey couple of hours just watching all the goings on

and having lunch.

'Otis',the resident cat was hilarious eyeing up the little bantums

but weary in the heat as they were rushing around and the very

large chickens were glaring at him!

Stewart and I then headed home for some R and R in our garden,

sunbathing and reading.

I do think a snooze was had too!

BBQ for tea!

Happy Birthday, Stewart!

Visit The Hare Arms at

http://www.theharearms.co.uk/