Gallery Tuesday 25th October 2011

As you may know Textile Tuesdays @The Gallery

are always busy with creating and everyone has

a good time too! as you can see

by some of these next photos.

At the top, Sara is covering fabric with

old dressmaking patterns and then making a new piece

of art to sew all over and transform.

Lots of patchwork,

lots of chat and catch up with other students

with Jeanette modelling Pat's new bag

and telling them all about,

her trip to Emmerdale!

Yes,Emmerdale!

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Caves of The Forgotten Dreams, Chavet.

On the Friday evening I was so tired after a busy week

so Stewart and I watched the new film out on

'The Caves of Chavet',

'Caves of Forgotten Dreams'.

These caves in France were found accidentally by walkers

and contain the oldest artwork known to man.

The film shows the documentation of the caves by

scientists,archeologists and artists.

It is a very interesting film and the

artwork made by charcoal and pigments

is beautiful!

See a video clip on my tech site

www.art2inspiretech.blogspot.com

have been

Patchwork Drawstring Bag

After doing some household chores on Friday morning

I went in the studio

and made a patchwork and quilted bag.

Joy had show us her one that she brings her cup in

to meetings and I thought what a good idea.

It took a bit of fiddling out and it's turned out o.k.

The piece of patchwork underneath the bag at

the top is for another

sketchbook cover. I have also been using it as

a demo piece on how to build up your strips of

fabric to make a larger piece.

See some of my Students Drawstring Bags by

clicking HERE

See more of bag making by clicking on the written

labels below or by visiting my

website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Strip Cushion Session

During the classes, especially the 'Striped Crazywork Cushion',

I have been teaching all the students how to do

Machine Quilting and Embroidery.

Above, is Gloria busy on the machine, she has

really taken to it as you can see by her cushion

in the making.

See my cushions on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Quilts in School

Heatherann teaches at school and has been

making symmetrical patterns with the

children. They designed the pattern and

then they arranged the colours.

Heatherann then made up the quilt to show the children

that designs make finished objects, this is so

important these days to show by example.

It is wonderful that there are teachers like

Heatherann teaching children many aspects of life.

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HERE

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Knit Wits Class 20th October 2011

Folded Bag and Covered Notebook.

Sewing Tidy.

Sewing Machine Mat.

Teacosy.

Quilting Classes at Knit Wits are just great!

Everyone is really happy with what they are creating

and finishing as you can see by the projects above.

Some have even brought their first machine and are loving it!

I feel very lucky to be sharing in their making.

Thank you, Bill and Fiona for making the day

go so smoothly too, with the bookings, stocking the shop, greeting and

making teas! it all makes for lovely happy classes.

See more of what has been created by clicking on the

written labels below or see what type

of workshops are available by clicking

HERE

Alveva Quilters Meeting 19th October 2011

Wednesday night was Alveva Quilters monthly meeting.

John from the charity Lifeline 4 Chernobyl came

to the meeting to give us a talk on the charity

and advise us on the different ways we can help.

Our group takes on several charities a year to support.

We tend to do local charities so it helps our local

community. Even though this is a local charity

that supports 'The Forgotten People Of Chernobyl",

there are lots of ways we can help other than money.

We are making quilts, knitted teddy bears,

so that every child that need one has one,

collecting warm clothes and other items for the auctions

that are held once a month at Salters Lode.

We are supporting other charities too,

The Brain Tumour Trust, The Litcham Hospice

and The Quilters Guild of Great Britain by

donating £100 towards conservation of a quilt.

(We did this last year too!).

It's nice to know we are enjoying

our hobby and helping other too!

John spoke to us, showed us a video and

answered our questions and then we had

'Show and Tell'.

There were lots but I have showed two photos.

Louise showed us her first machine made quilt,

well done Louise and Barbara showed us her

quilt that is folded at the bottom of the bed.

It is very luxurious almost like something out of a Harem!

Barbara's words not mine.

It was beautiful

and has bells on! say no more!

See the charities website by clicking

www.lifeline4chernobyl.org.uk

Pat's New Work

(Click on the picture to enlarge the detail)

Pat is always working through new ideas and also keeps an

altered sketchbook. Here she is putting the

finishing touches to her bag.

Checking the handle length and width.

Her sewing machine decided it was going to stop dead!

This week, I think it was under protest because of the amount of

work she puts it through!

Only joking Pat!

Lucky enough it was a fuse so could be fixed quickly,

as Pat wants to continue with her Dove Cushion.

The Dove picture was scan transferred onto cotton lawn,

from a 1930's picture, using a computer printer.

We did this a couple of weeks ago on a demo

section of the sessions.

Pat has added appliqued lace and flowers cut out

from the 1930's silk fabric she is using for the

border and backing.

The fabric came to me in a bag of fabric scraps

which one of the students brought into class.

I recycle lots of fabrics, art materials and tools

to other students so they are able to try new

techniques or add to what they have to enhance

their projects.

Its fantastic to share and create this cycle of art

and re-creation.

See more work by clicking the written labels

or pictures below or visit

my portfolio on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Sara's Finished Work

Sara has worked hard since September

completing several different projects

which take many hours to complete.

They are beautiful!

The Strip Patchwork Butterfly Wall Hanging,

is Sara's first go at scrap bag patchwork and

free machine quilting.

The Pink Notebook was a piece of felt,

embellished using an

Embellisher Machine and lots of lovely

scraps of fabric, then

machine embroidered. Sara then added

more embellishments by hand.

The top photograph is a wall hanging based

on crazy patchwork and a corset shape.

Lots to follow as Sara forms her portfolios

and sketchbooks.

See more by clicking the written labels below.

India Inspired Wall Hanging

Barbara has been inspired by some of the

India Inspired Wall Hangings that I have taken

to The Gallery over the last few weeks.

She also took a trip

to Kushions and Kwilts at Hunstanton

where she brought the lovely squares of sari fabrics.

Barbara wants to learn how to heavily

embellish the piece.

See my India Inspired work

HERE

Gallery Tuesday 18th October 2011

I love teaching @The Gallery in Dereham on

'Textile Tuesdays', as I am able to help students

create with lots of different medias.

Ann has been very busy and wanted to get stuck into some real

art creating on fabric.

She had brought several different types of fabric

and some squares of silk and got painting

with a mixture of fabric paints.

Making textures by using different tools to

apply the paint as well as salt to extract the colour.

When they were dry or almost it was out with

the heat gun and soldering iron to melt and

'cut out' the flower shapes.

see more of Ann's work over the

next couple of weeks as it builds into a wall hanging.

See more of what goes on @The Gallery

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Real Steel

On Saturday after the Guild Meeting I went to

the Cinema with Stewart to 'Real Steel'.

A film about robots that fight in boxing rings,

instead of Humans.

It is set 50 years from now and gives us an insight on

the technology that will be common place in

the future. Will also be a throw away society

as the film suggests? I hope not!!

Hugh Jackman and his relationship with his

on screen son gives it a feel good factor.

See a clip

HERE

On my Tech site

www.art2inspiretech.blogspot.com

Guild Regional Day

Wills Quilt

On Friday is the day I get to continue with

commissions and my own work.

I am preparing work for exhibition next year and

have quite a few commissions in hand.

This one is for Will. Here is the front finished and

the back pieced ready to quilt.

I love the colours and the idea based on flags and pennants.

See more of my quilts in my

portfolio pages on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Thursday 13th Class at Knit Wits

On the Thursday I was at Knit Wits in Dereham,

teaching"Embellished Strip Cushions".

Students had brought in the sewing machine

mats they had made the week before.

It is always lovely to see work finished and being put to use.

Some have not done any forms of patchwork

before so are learning from the beginning,

gaining confidence each week, producing

wonderful things, learning and sharing too!

Above you can see the strips coming together

ready for the embellishing next week.

See my cushions

HERE

on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk