Red Embellished Sketchbook

This is an embellished sketchbook of mine which is for sale at The Gallery Dereham.

See more of The Gallery at

www.thegallerydereham.co.uk

An art Tidy for Carol

I am still making Art Tidies and this one is for Carol who is one of the ladies who

creates artwork on a Tuesday's at The Gallery Dereham.

She ordered it because she is fed up of the thread and snippet

escape all over her sewing room floor!

They definitely work and I have them in the Gallery to use and sell.

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Metal Mystic 'Blue'

This is the complete wallhanging'Metal Mystic,Blue'

I have incorporated handwritten quotes on this piece to share with the viewer

the words of 'Mystics'.

The metal embellishments have been embossed,dyed and stitched.

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Metal Mystic 'Blue' Back

This is the back of the wallhanging called

.'Metal Mystic 'Blue'.

It is 14"by 14"

I have dated and signed it and also

included one of the quotes which I have written on the front.

"In times of change learners inherit the earth,

whilethe learnedfind themselves beautifully

equipped to work in a world

that no longer exists".

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

See more of the quotesI have used in my work at

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Metal Mystic 'Blue' Planning

This is the planning stage of the second wallhanging from

'The Appothecary's Garden',

called, Metal Mystic, 'Blue'.

It's made with my own dyed fabrics and commercial ones I have adapted.

The metal decorations are pieces of alluminium.

I have embossed stained and stamped them.

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Metal Mystic 1 Copper

So here is one of 'The Metal Mystic' wallhangings finished.

'Copper'

It measures 14'' by 15''.

Inspired by metal and the the work of Appothercary's of ancient times.

I have enjoyed making the wallhangings as and when,

adding to them and sewing bit by bit

like a potions or recipes.

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Metal Mystic 1 Back

This is the back of 'The Metal Mystic 1 Copper'.

The piece is dated,signed and I have also written a quote,

'Art is healing......The journey is the Inspiration'

I heard it on the radio and had to write it down.

Sadly I don't know who said it.

I have got to put a sleeve on it for hanging

and its done.

See more of my wallhangings on my website

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Mystic Metal Wallhanging Planning

As some of you know who follow my blog,

I have been burning and burnishing metal for a while now.

(See previous blog,'burning metal')

This was one of the pieces that has been sat on my work table ready for stitching.

This is often how pieces of work materialise from the studio.

It contains dyed, purchased fabrics and others which I have

printed and adapted.

See other wallhangings on m website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Gardening

Saturday was spent weeding nearly the entire garden at

Quilters Cottage from the top vegetable garden, down.

Remember we have nearly an acre here and things are growing fast!

We have just got the front to do now!

This is the Japonica (Quince) at the side of the cottage near the front door.

I just love the way nature puts its colours together, with a little help!

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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.

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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

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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.