The Bongleweed Page

This screen printed fabric was inspired by the childrens book

'The Bongleweed',

where a child watches a plant grow outside their window.

It takes over her world and she has adventures exploring in it.

I have had to deal with an awlful lot of weeds

this spring but as many a gardener has told me,

"Weeds are just plants, growing in your wrong place!".

So true! but they do take over!

See more of Quilters Cottage garden throughout this blog.

Back of Bongleweed Page

This is the back of The Bongleweed page.

There is a section from some of my screen printed fabric

I usedon the front.

The quote is,

"May all our weeds be

wild flowers"

Anon

See more of the pages as I add to them

throughout the Summer.

Yellow Iris Page

The Yellow Iris page contains all my own dyed fabrics.

The back is a section from a a dyed flowered duvet cover.

I recycle most things!

The quote is

"Nature is the source of

all artistic expression"

See more quotes and how I have used them

in my work at

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Purple Iris Page

This Purple Iris Page

contains alot of my own dyed and screenprinted textiles.

It was the end of the day and screen, so I

sprinkled it with talcum powder and you get

wonderful bubble shaped spots on your fabric.

I had previously laid a resist pattern down of a flowered

heart and this is on the back, using this same technique

with the talcum powder.

The quotes are,

" Imagination is everything.

It is the preview of life's coming attactions"

Albert Einstein.

and

"By changing our course of action

in a moment,sometimes in a very

small way we may redirect an

entire outcome"

See more quote andhow I have used them in my work at

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

Pink Iris Page

This Pink Iris page contains several quotes as you can see.

"If a journey had no struggle.

If life had no effort.

If work had no pride.

Where would the meaning of it all be?"

Anon

Blue Iris Page

This is the 'Blue Iris', page.

The pages are all A4 size,

with the intention to join them all together into a book

ready for Alveva's Exhibition in October.

Our theme for the Exhibition is

'An English Country Garden'.

I have layered materials and made pockets for

keepsakes and memories to be added onto

the pages.

Each one contains quotes, poems and verse.

The backs are decorated too! with additions such as buttons.

I have written longer quotes on them

in my own handwriting.

Iris Photograph

These Iris's have been beautiful every year and I keep dividing

them and moving them round the garden.

These are in the long flower bed which was

completely re-designed this year.

I just love how exotic they look.

I have been making fabric 'Garden' pages and have

made several inspired by the Iris,

in the different colours.

See more of Quilters Cottage Garden in previous blogs.

Bonnets for Norma Bean

At our busy Alveva meeting some more bonnets were given to me

to send to Norma Bean.

They are beautifully made and carry

the embroidered name of a

'Rose' who was transported to Australia.

These are in the post now to Norma with our best wishes.

See previous February 2010 blogs

'Roses from the Heart'

'The Bonnet Display'

'Roses from Tthe Heart Bonnets'

and see all the information about the

exhibiton and history to these bonnets at

http://www.christinahenri.com.au/

and

http://www.femalefactory.com.au/

Sue Cranwell's Braclet

As Sue was setting up for the evening she kindly

donated this amazing raffle prize.

One of her hand made embroidered bracelets

in it's own gift box.

WoW!

At the end of the evening everyone was excited

ready for the raffle draw.

I think everyone was crossing their fingers.

Sue Coombes won and she was absolutely thrilled.

When her husband came to pick her up,

she showed him her new bracelet and introduced

Sue to him, now Pete is a an appreciative husband

and admirer of craftmanship

and immediately thanked Sue for her work.

A lovely evening alround.

If you would like to contact Sue or Fibrefusion go to

http://www.fibrefusion.org.uk/

Alveva Quilters

We were so lucky last night to have Sue Cranwell as a speaker.

After the business of the evening and a show and tell

where Meg showed us some new fusables,

Liz showed us an Antique Welsh Quilt

and a small one she had finished and hand quilted herself.

Jenny had just managed to sell her buisness.

Linda had rushed in the door because she had just finished a two

day course with Jan Beeney,

Linda then showed us her landscape!

I showed the group my Metal Mystic wallhangings.

Aswell as a Round Robin being swapped,

Two quilts being assembled and a book sale.

WOW! what a mixed group.

Sue talked about her family background in textiles and how she had arrived at where she is now with all the twists and turns in life

and how tragic events spark you off in different directions.

Her work is inspirational and so interesting

to hear the ideas and concepts behind what she had brought to show us.

We had a lovely evening.

See Sue's work and that of the group she belongs to at

http://www.fibrefusion.org.uk/

Crazywork Square For This Month

Tonight is Alveva's and I have made my crazywork square for the round robin.

I have liked working with Ann's fabrics and the Autumn colours.

We have one more square to work on before the big reveal.

I am really excited,it has been 8 months

since I saw my block go off in it's box.

See more of my Quilts on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Dereham Festival Art Exhibitions

Dereham Festival is on now until the 29th of May.

The Gallery is one of the venues hosting artwork from the area.

This exhibition is all about 'Art in Music'

and exbits the artwork from participating

Breckland schools.

Jenn and I went to the Private View,opened by the Mayor.

Really great to see the artists enjoying their exhbition.

See more of te photographs on facebook,

gallerydereham.

The giant fish sculptures swimming from the ceiling are

wonderful and the artwork is really expressive.

For more information visit

http://www.derehamfestival.org.uk/

Gallery Day 18th of May

Carol and Angie really busy working while the new exhibition at The Gallery

was being set up and labelled.

See more of what goes on at The Gallery

www.thegallerydereham.co.uk

Carol Embellishing

Carol has finshed her Quillo, you can just see it onthe table, so decided between quilting projects

she wanted to try embellishing.

Here, Carol is cutting snippets of fabrics for her embellishing 'colour palette.'

She embellished onto some warm and natural wadding.

This was Carol's first experiments with embllishing and she wanted to take the

machine home because she had had so much fun!

See more of embellishing and workshops at

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

Pat's Embellishing

Pat is really enjoying the embellishing and tried different colours

and techniques,adding machine stitches and direction.

See more embellishing on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk