Blue Moon Brooch

I can now show you the Blue Moon Brooch I made for my friend's Birthday. I see her tonight at our once a month get together with The Coven Quilters. Hope she likes it!

As of all the things I make, each one is unique but I will be selling a small range of these brooches in various colours shortly.

I am in the process of beading them at the moment.

Blue Moon Postcards

I was so chuffed today picking up my Blue Moon Business cards and Blue Moon Postcards today from Pronto Print in Kings Lynn. They look near enough like the original piece of work and the colour is intense. They show all the embellishments,stitches and beadwork which I am really pleased about.
You will be able to purchase the postcards shortly and they will also be on sale at The Gallery Dereham.

Competition Entry

Snowflake Wallhanging

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I have entered Quilting Bloggers, Weekly Themed Quilt Contest, for the first week in Feb.

The theme is Snow,Ice and Cold(Brr!).

The Snowflake wallhanging was a challenge to use intricate piecing with unusual fabrics, my own dyed ones and Stewart's Grandmother's lace crochet snowflakes.

I wanted it to make you sense the cold when you looked at it.

Take a look at the Quilt Bloggers site by clicking on the badge on the right of my blog. Have fun browsing.

China Inspiration

Last night Judith Symonds came to our local branch of The Embroidery Guild and showed us her collection of textiles and clothing from Southern China. Wow! is all I could think of. The workmanship, stitches and abundance of colour on mainly black was breath taking. We had to 'multi- task' while Judith was giving us all the history and interest of a piece she would then send it round the room.
So picture this 10 minutes in, there were at least 20 or more textiles being past round with the chatter and gasps as someone laid eyes on the stitches and beauty. These pieces are made by young and old women alike and are equiste often recyled through the generations and remodelled into another sections of a garment making that one even more intricate.By the end of the evening there were so many pieces to re-look at you didn't know which one to choose.
I took pages of notes because I forgot! my camera, which I could really have kicked myself for.

I do have the tinge that these textiles are now in England and not in China but Judith is inspiring hundreds possible thousands with her talks, each time so, stitch heritage and the appreciation of culture will continue. I have more of a warm appreciation for my fellow ladies in a far away land, stitching in their different world.
Thank you Judith for showing and inspiring us.
I just wanted to go home and start again!

Linear Buisness Card Inspiration

The large printer at ProntoPrint decided to have gremlins and printed out an image it wanted, of Blue Moon first. I really like it, so it will hang on my inspiratonal board in the studio.

Buisness card Inspiration

Went to proof read my buisness cards and postcads today. Had to show you one of the sheets. The Blue Moon ones are just yummy!
See the tips on what to be aware of when ordering your buisness cards from a printers on my website
http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

By the way there are no more Blue Moon ATC's for swapping now.The response and what inspires you have been wonderful. Thank you.

Embellishment

The inspiration from these leaves will be with me for a little while I think!

See more embellishing on my website http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

Embellishment with Jewels

When there were gaps in visitors yesterday at the Gallery I was working on the green sheer embellishments, inspired by the lacy leaves of the flower I found at the weekend. I was asked how I do the embroidered rings with the jewels in them so have put theinstructions on my main website under STITCH heading down the right hand side, if you would like to know how.
http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

Gallery Day Jan 26th

Had a wonderful day in the Gallery today. It was really busy this morning with me demonstrating to several ladies, the embellisher. They all had a go and made a small postcard sized piece of felt embellishment using the blue and green scraps from my Blue Moon work.The ladies had a cuppa, while chatting and embellishing! They loved the pieces of work I had on show and all left with the embellished postcard and one of my Red Atc's (can't promise to give a freebie every week).
They are coming back next week!
I ill be publishing listof te mixed media techniques for February.

See http://www.thegallerydereham.co.uk/ for updates and to book in.

Sheer Fabric Inspiration

Had to go into Kings Lynn this morning, Jenn came too!
New heels for my boots,ordered some buisness cards, ooh normally make my own but I need some photo ones for

The Gallery!
But our best shop was the fabric shop! I needed some sheers. So armed with a small leaf from the flower dec, Jenn and I had great fun feeling and pulling out all the sheer fabrics! Then onto the bead and braid sections and of course paint and glitter!
We don't get out much together to play as you can tell so we had lunch too! Pizza!
I will look to my figure, another day!

Flower Sections

Just had to take it to bits and disect it!

New Inspiration, Flower

It's the 25th today a month after Christmas and its also Burn's Night today, the celebration for those of Scottish descent. Have a good celebration!
It's gone so quickly already!
New Inspiration
I found this flower decoration on the second hand stall on Swaffham market on Saturday,for 20p. It just yelled at me to be used. I think it's the green lacy metallic leaves that drew me in.

Cards for ATC's

Here is one of the cards to go with the Blue Moon ATC's.

I used the trimmings of the ATC's to make the strips and applied them to the card with machine zig zag stitch.

Now they can be on there way!

See my website for ATC inspiration and more news! http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

Chain Braid Stitch Page

At the moment I am participating in a crazywork round robin, so I was revisiting different embroidery stitches. This has inspired me to form a book of stitches. Making the pages interesting to look at in the future. This page was inspired by Beryl Taylors Book, Mixed Media Exploratons.
Beryl Taylors website is http://www.beryltaylor.com/

Chain Braid Stitch Sample