Janet and her Fairy Quilt

Mo And Me And The Strippy Quilt

Japanese Friendship Star

Patchwork Pillowcases and a Quilt

Textile Classes at The Cancer Care Moving on Unit Dereham,

are going really well and some wonderful items are being made 

and shared.

Here, Liz made two more patchwork pillowcases to go with

her daughters quilt which got sent to Australia last year,

 as a Christmas gift. 

See the quilt.

You can see the quilt is a King Size and the main colour 

was grey a cool colour for the Australian heat.

  So we decided on the lilac to add as the accent colour

and it really has done the job. 

Well done Liz for such a large project.

It was well received and a Thank you came back

with a very large bunch of flowers.

Appreciation for all that hard work :)

Textile Classes are Tuesdays and Thursdays

click the workshop page above for more information.

to lift the cool colours.

C&G Creative Textiles

Monday and Wednesday C&G creative Textiles are going

well. We have had several assessments and all are doing well.

There will be new courses starting shortly for

Level One, a taster course.

 Level Two and Level Three a years creative course.

At least three techniques each week and lots of creating.

See results on my portfolio site

art2inspire.co.uk

16 Squares Make a Bag

Brenda has made this bag for her friend for the Summer.

Its beautiful!

Its made out of 16, 5.5" squares and laid out similar to the 

table runners I teach.

There has been a steep learning curve on how to put the

squares and lining together and turn it inside out so that

it looks professional. 

A great gift.

Well done Brenda!

See one of my favourite square bags with a purse

HERE 

See more bags by clicking the written labels below. 

Stitchers at Work

I love catching stitchers at work. 

These show total different textile techniques.

Top, Caroline piecing her Jelly roll strip blocks.

Middle, Sylvia getting to grips with a flower stitch foot

and bottom, Judith starting her piecing of a stained glass patchwork.

I love the diversity of Creative Textiles and I feel so lucky to be able

to teach and share.

Sampler Quilts in the Making

Eileen and Janet are both using Sampler Quilt Patterns 

to make these two very different quilts.

The colours are just wonderful!

See more quilts by clicking the written labels below or visiting 'Quilt"

on my art portfolio site,

HERE

textile Thursday is all about Quilting of all different types.

This week it was all about Quilts!

Here HeatherAnne is sharing her Japanese inspired Quilts.

We had a good 'Show and Tell' about how they were made and

what patterns were called and how they were put together.

HeatherAnne had used two different ways of putting the quilts together.

'Quilt as you go' and Whole quilt pinning.

Thank you HeatherAnne for sharing.

A Girls Day Out Quilt

 

Hellen has been working on this beautiful embroidered quilt called,

"A Girls Day Out". It was made block as you go and came

in kit form each month.

It is such a work of art.

Go HERE for pattern.

Beryl's Bags

As some of you know who follow Quilters Cottage Norfolk

I love making bags and encouraging others to make bags.

Beryl has been busy as you can see making a selection.

We did have a laugh with her though, as she brought an expensive magazine

because she liked the bag pattern in it (the pastel square one above).

She followed the pattern cut out the template and worked her way through

the instructions, only to find that the bag turned out 6.

A beautiful miniature bag!

The picture in the book was magazine page sized so led you to believe

that you would be sporting it on your arm!

not between your pinkies!

Its beautiful though and Beryl is going to scale the pattern up.

We are looking forward to the full size version.

See more bags by clicking on the written labels below.  

The Art Room Dereham

Textile Tuesday and Thursdays are going well at 'The Art Room',  Dereham. 

The Tuesday sessions are 10am until 12.15 and 12.30 until 2.45pm.

You need to book so contact  me on 01760 337181 if you want to book or

find out information.

There is lots of inspiration and lots of sharing and laughter. 

The bottom photograph shows Jo demonstrating how to machine a buttonhole.

It's always typical though the machine decides to play up as you want to share!

After re threading and positioning it worked and perfect button holes. 

Lots of buttons are being used at the moment as you can see with future posts.

A time to sort out and play in the Button Box!

See more of my work on my portfolio site

www.art2inspire.co.uk 

City and Guilds Textiles Continues

City and Guilds Creative Textiles started again for the new year and

everyone was ready to start creating their own projects.

I have been teaching at least 3 techniques each session and everyone

has done some sampling in class to see which techniques
 they really like. 

A lot of the techniques we do some have never tried or they have always wondered how it is done so City and Guilds are the ideal way of experiencing this.

There are lots of changes within the City and Guilds set up at the moment and as a Tutor

I see them as very positive, bringing education right up to date and in the work place or real world as I call it. There are also students who just want to learn the techniques for themselves.

I will be continuing Levels One Two and Three in Creative Textiles, Machine Embroidery and Patchwork and Quilting in September 2013. If you are interested in City and Guilds visit their website or contact myself for more information. 

See an article of previous students by clicking on my portfolio website Art 2 Inspire