Father's Day

Stewart's younger brother and family (his wife and two sons)

were staying on the our Norfolk coast at Hunstanton at 'Searles' Park,

over the weekend and we went to see them for Father's Day.

We went on the Land Train along the coast and into town.

Our nephews loved it.

As you can see Stewart is really 'chuffed' he's got the train tickets.

We had Fish and Chips for lunch mixed in with the fun fair and later

Ice creams while admiring all the motorbikes that had parked up on the seafront.

The brass band was playing in the pavillon for all to hear.

Just a great day, lots of family photo's and memories

Rugging Workshop Sample

I have made Proddy Rugs before and I have several around the house,

using hessian as background.

I have also tried the wool 'Redicut' hook rug method too

but this is my favourite so far.

The string running through the rug loops stops the

rug from shedding it's pile!

This is what I managed to do in the few hours.

Jenny brought lots of inspiration and yarns and so did Shelia.

We were able to rip and tear to our hearts content.

It was a really lovely workshop with lots of chat and laughter too!

Thank you Jenny and the Committee for organising it.

Rugging Workshop

I am playing catch up again with all the wonderful things that happen each day.
Saturday I went to an Embroidery Guild Workshop Day
in Kings Lynn on Hooked Rag Rugging
by Jenny a Guild member.
It was with a needlehook and thread with canvas.
Here you can see a select group realy working hard.

Blue Crazywork Cushion

Here is the finished Crazywork Cushion.

I love embellishing with stitch, beading and lots of machine quilting.

I am going to put this into the Embroidery Guild Exhibition

along with The Blue Moon Embellishment.

See more of my work on my website at

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Crazywork Cushion Detail

I think seeing all the crazywork from the Round Robin

I needed to make a cushion which had been in my head for a while.

Here is a section of the centre panel.

See more cushions and crazywork on my website

www.at2inspire.co.uk

Liz and The Flower Girls

Along with the Round Robin Reveal we had a full packed evening with notices,

Show and Tell and Exhibition details.

Our big Exhibition is the 23rd and 24th of October 2010.

Our theme is,

"An English Country Garden",

so we have started

collecting and making relevant items for it,

as well as making quilts,wallhangings and

articles for stalls and raffles.

The Exhibition is held in The Porters Barn in Feltwell.

It is a Medieval Tithe Barn so we have to hang alot of work!

Here Liz is teaching some of the members how to make

tissue paper flowers. They looked fantastic

and will look great on the stage area.

The ones in the flower pots were made by

Jill and she gave us all the pattern so we can go away

and make our own!

I have got to come up with the

back drop of a Country Cottage!

Round Robin Reveal

Alveva night was very exciting for members of the group as it was

the reveal ofthe Crazywork Round Robin.

We were all eager to open our boxes and

went into another room to look at what suprises we had.

Everyone of them were different and lovely in there own way.

We were all so pleased at our quilts to be!

Mine is the green and brown one,

at the front of the picture.

Everyone chose a theme or colour of fabrics and trimmings

to put in their box

along with a sample of their own square to give

the others in the group an idea of what we were

thinking of. Mine was based in nature and Asian Textiles.

We then showed the rest of the group.

See more Crazywork on my website

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

Alveva Quilt Day

Wednesday, I spent he whole day putting together a special scrap quilt with

help from the rest of the Clark family (Stewart and Jenn)

and Linda an Alveva member.

It was a real puzzle at times as every patch/block of triangles or

squares had been made by different members of

the Alveva Quilt Group.

They were all different sizes,shapes and some ascue!

Linda walked through the door of the studio and immediately

got machining on my very old but reliable Bernina

and Jenn was on the Janome and Stewart on ironing,

pinning and tea with me!

I machined when one of the two had to move to either

iron or position their piece back in the puzzle.

We finished the front and the centre panel of the back,

cutting out the back border strips ready to sew another time.

Thank you Linda for a fantastic job of squaring up, machining and listening to the constant chatter of the Clark's!

The Quilt will look great and I'll show you it finished at a later date.

Promise!

See other quilts on my website

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

No Gallery Day

No Gallery on Tuesday due to my car deciding it is going to leak water everywhere.

We managed to get the car to the garage feeding it water as we went!

We picked up a courtesy car in the afternoon and are still waiting as it is the

Head Gasket!

The garage,Trevor Greef Motor Services Ltd,

is great and I have been on their website advertising

since they launced their website.

See what a great garage it is and a pic of me at

www.tgautos.co.uk

Magnum TV Ad

Today I starred in the lastest 'Magnum' TV Ad.

See it on my profile on facebook.

I am the cousin that helps the couple break into the vault.

It's been really cool learning technology!!!

Jenn also starred in another 'Magnum' ad.

We've had a real giggle!

See more of what goes on at Quilters Cottage at

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Kitchen at Quilters Cottage

We spent the weekend stripping out the kitchen here at the

cottage including taking down the cabinets and then

painting and re-assembling everything.

Every cupboard was sorted through and

the contents 'Spring' cleaned!

Glad thats done!

See more of Quilters Cottage on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Linda's 'Musing'

Look what arrived in the post on Saturday,

a Thank you from Linda for the wonderful

'studio crawl' we had last Sunday.

What a suprise, it was as I had only just

commented on it that morning on

Linda's post and there it is in my hands, magic!

Thank you Linda and I will put it on my

inspiration board.

See more of Linda's on her blog

www.artinspirations-linturn.blogspot.com

Crazywork Beginnings

It's been a very busy week and I wanted to delve into

some colour and stitch on the machine.

This is the start of a sketchbook cover.

This is the week that our Crazywork Round Robin finishes,

and I think is in the back of my mind.

I am really looking forward to seeing the blocks come back.

I haven't seen them for 8 months!

See more crazywork on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Linda and her Dragonfly

Here, Linda and her Dragonfly Wallhanging look wonderful!

at The Dragonfly Gallery,Watton.

It was really lovely to be able to go round Linda's Exhibition

with her because she explained the context of her work

celebrated the fact that it was in exhibition and what new work can now

be inspired over for the future.

I like that about putting on exhibitions.

You can see the work for itself, standing alone and in a collection.

It allows you to see what you like

and what direction you want to go in the future.

The Dragonfly Gallery is a wonderful venue and

the staff were really friendly.

See the other exhibitions on the Gallery website

www.thewaylanddragonflygallery.co.uk

Dragonfly Gallery Exhibition

The Dragonfly Gallery at Wayland House, Watton,

has an exhibition of "Quilt Inspirations" on until 12th June,

by my friend and fellow textile artist

Linda Turner.

I went to see it yesterday and when I entered

Linda was busy working in the Gallery on a detailed

'Soluble Piece'.

Linda's exhibition is outstanding.

Her mixed media landscapes are breathtaking

with the level of work and colour.

Thank you, Linda for sharing your work.

See more of Linda's work and inspiration on her blog at

www.artinspirations-linturn.blogspot.com