Freespirit 2

This one happened after I nipped into town to go to the market

to get some salad for the weekend.

I just love 'blues' as some of you know and

I do have alot of blue dye mixed.

I just loved using my handmade stamps to print with

and rubbed some texture in with oil bars.

This background fabric is now ready to be sandwhiched and heavily quilted.

See some more of my wallhangings on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Freespirit 1

Not teaching this morning so was able to go into the studio.

What to do?

I have been wanting to just paint some fabric.

So I ironed some sheeting and cut it into banner size pieces.

Used some printing tools to add some background details.

Then opened up the jars of dye and mixed in some thickner and let it flow.

This is now ready for a quilt sandwhich and heavy quilting,

again freeform.

See more of my banner quilts on my website

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

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/

His and Hers Gingerbread

Jenn and I went into Downham Market today to do some shopping.

We needed a treat so got some gingerbread men and decorated them!!

(double click on picture to see details!)

He! He! theres a different type of art!

Conservatory Door Curtain

This is the back door conservatory curtain made of many different blue,white and cream scraps of furnishing fabrics.

I now need to make some curtains for the windows now,

maybe something similar?

This one I made last year.

See more of Quilters Cottage as the year goes on.

Conservatory Shelves

As you know since last week I have been decorating the conservatory.

These are the newly painted shelves with the contents well and truely sorted through.

I felt I needed to go through and have a spring clean of all the recipes and tips that I had gathered and put them in a file.

A chance to sort out the clutter which is always a good thing but sometimes a difficult thing to do.

See more of Quilters Cottage as the year goes on.

Lexi Day

Yesterday, Michelle and Lexi came over for the day.

I got the chance to give Lexi a bottle

just before we went for a walk around the woods.

Jenn and I enjoyed our cuddles and catch up with Michelle.

We enjoyed a ladies that lunch in the conservatory as it was

raining off and on all day.

What a lovely time we have!

Friends are so special.

Wedding Card

No Gallery day today as it is closed!

Judy and Haydn got married on Saturday

and are now on honeymoon!

Congratulations to you both!

Racing Hare

As you can see I was spotted and the hare took off,

racing up the hill to her partner.

I moved further up the garden and photographed many more hares enjoying their breakfast.

It is truely magical watching wildlife doing their thing!

Being so early I decided to clean out and paint the conservatory!

Things you do because of Spring!!!!

You really see the dust and the paintwork that needs doing!!!

Well it is another form of painting!!

Morning Hare

Got dressed pretty quick this morning beacause I wanted to catch the hare's on the field behind Quilters Cottage.

We live on a hill so the hares collect at the top and slowly make their way down with the sun.

Stewart's been telling me he has counted at least 18 but there were 12 up this morning

when I crept down the garden with my cup of tea and camera.

This one is clearly washing her face!

Click on the photograph to really see her face!

See my work on rabbits on my website

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

Start of a Wallhanging

Angie wanted to use most of the fabrics she had collected together.

She had a few guidelines in mind.

No measuring!

No rules!

and

bigger than an A4!!!

This preparation of the wallhanging appeared very quickly

and is definitely larger than A4!

Angie pinned it all in place and had started to turn some of the hems on

the circles,leaving some with their frayed edges too!

(Double click on the wallhanging to see the detail).

Angie now can do the creative stitch and embellishment bit!

Nice to see Angie creating at The Gallery.

See some of my wallhangings at

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

Angie Planning Her Wallhanging

Angie came to The Gallery today straight from work!

Angie needed some inspiration and others to create with.

It didn't take her long before she emptied all her fabric out on the

table, set a few things she wanted to achieve and not long after

she had a wallhanging in the making.

See some of my wallhangings

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

Carol Machine Quilting

Carol is very percise and she wants her quilting a certain way,

so she has quilted a bit,then unpicked,

quilted a bit and then unpicked.

Today she got into the 'zone' and started to quilt how

see really wanted to!

Well done, Carol for your practice and patience.

It is definitely paying off.

Carol took home lots of homework, as The Gallery is closed next week.

See more of what happens at The Gallery

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

Pat's Thank you Angel

Pat finished her mixed media angel today.
Isn't she wonderful?
What a beautiful facial expression.
(double click on angel picture to get the details)
Pat is giving it as a gift to say, 'Thank You'
and it will now be in the post.
It has been a real pleasure to see this angel materialise.
Well done Pat!
See more of what happens at The Gallery
http://www.thegallerydereham.co.uk/

Front Cover of Vintage Lace Folder

Here is the finished Vintage lace Blue Folder.

Embellished with hand and machine stitching.

Additional embellishments with the sequins and metallic threads.

It open and closes with a large pop stud.

It is slightly bigger than an A3 piece of paper when open.

I am really pleased with it because it is nice and compact

and will old all my special keepsake treasures.

See more of my keepsakes on my website

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