Book Cover

With 'Lace, Trimmings, Embellishment and Transfer',

being the inspiration of the month at classes.

I have been encouraging students to go through their

stashes and see what they have and share.

Helen brought along a piece of fabric that she had

fused to a piece of pelmet vylene and wanted to know

how she could embellish it and make it into a book cover.

I love mixing up the medias as you know, so this was

great showing someone how they could take their sparkly

bits and pieces, lace and trim and have fun.

It is all put onto the stiffened fabric with fusible web

and then covered with voile and stitched.

Helen added coloured lace trimming and

a beautiful shimmery butterfly.

Well done Helen!

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Dinosaur Quilts

I love the variety of creative projects that are being made

at classes and the above one is a quillo being made for

a Grandson who loves Dinosaurs.

Jenny has cross stitched different dinos and pieced

them in blocks around the border of a printed panel.

Lace Painting @The Gallery

I am encouraging students to dye and colour different

types of fabrics and trimmings, so they can have a palette

of textiles and embellishments to work with.

The laces were painted, sponged and sprayed

with various paints, inks and dyes.

The underneath papers and fabrics can be as interesting

as the pieces you are colouring.

Doubling your mediums!

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Gallery Tuesday 7th February 2012

I have been taking the printer and prepared fabric

to all my teaching sessions this month so that

students could transfer their pictures and photos

onto fabric. It's lovely seeing textiles being

created this way and it makes it so personal.

Nikki above, is making a cushion with pictures

in memory of her Mum.

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Bag Making

On Monday 6th of February it was lovely to play

in my studio making another bag for the Bag Day

in March.

Blue is my favourite colour so, it was even more pleasurable!

I made the bag in the traditional bagging method by

making the outer bag and lining leaving a gap in the lining to

turn the two pieces that are now sewn right sides together.

It makes the edges clean and tidy.

See more bags by clicking the written label below

Good News

I went to Wensum Lodge, The Adult Education Centre,

in Norwich.

I went to start the next step of starting the

City and Guilds for

Machine Embroidery and Patchwork and Quilting

@ The Gallery Dereham.

The meeting went really well and the Award Levels

can start at the end of March, after everything is put

in place.

If you are Norfolk you will be able to participate

in these courses.

They will be on a Wednesday.

The Awards, cover the basics of the Guilds, similar

to a taster.

Great News for all that want to start gaining

educational certificate recognition for their

work.

Cushions

As you can see there is a variety of cushions being

made by students.

Ever one takes a different combination of techniques.

This is what makes the sessions so interesting for everyone.

Seeing the inspiration and makes from myself

and other students.

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Wall Hangings at Knit Wits

These are small wall hangings made from recycled

items.

I encourage textile recycling in my sessions and

many of my students are enjoying the freedom

of making things from items that they find or are

now looking at items differently and how they

can be remade.

The Garden Scene below is made from a bottle cover.

Thursday 2nd February Class at Knit Wits

I have a very busy couple of weeks, yes! busier than

usual and blogging is two weeks behind!

Well, as you can see above, these are

quilt blocks made by my students.

Different ways of making them.

I like combining machine and hand work.

The top are all made by hand and are becoming part

of a sampler quilt.

The Lily Block and Star Block are part made by

machine and then the raised triangles are then

hand turned. The nine blocks will make a

wallhanging designed by Jennie Rayment.

Visit her website

www.jennierayment.com

!st February Evening Class Knit Wits

Once a month I teach a Wednesday Evening class at Knit Wits,

in Dereham.

It is always well attended and the projects being made

are varied.

I encourage 'Show and Tell' and you can see

a Reading Cushion made by Ann at the bottom of this post,

what a lovely gift for a child.

Lots of cutting out and finishing own projects going on and

the time goes so quick.

The letter quilt was made from a printed panel.

Each letter had to be cut out separately and

measurements had to be checked to make the squares.

Panels can be great but it often what you do with them

that makes the difference.

The top photo is of Heather Ann machine quilting

a Web, Strip Quilt.

Visit Knit Wits website

www.knitwitsdereham.co.uk

Betty Ball

Ros Peedle is our Region 9 Co-Ordinator at the moment.

She is nearing her 3 year post and

Betty Ball has come forward to take over the role in May.

Betty is a bit of a celebrity at the moment as she has a

quilt hanging in the Layers Exhibition in York at

The Quilter's Guild Museum.

Betty is a member of The New Horizons Textile Group.

Visit their site HERE

Visit the Quilters Guild

www.quiltersguild.org.uk

Quilters Guild Region 9 Committee Meeting

On February the 1st we had our Committee meeting for

Region 9 of the Quilters Guild.

Lots of things to discuss and new ventures being

planned.

One of the things on many of our minds is,

'The Block of The Month", designed by

Jacquie Harvey a Quilter from Norfolk.

The Block of The Month is open to anyone and you can

start at any time.

The funds raised are helping the Region 9 put

on events.

The one above is in the process of being embroidered

and beaded by Ros Peedle.

Looks good!

To see the Block of the Month Quilt and Jacquie's work.

Visits Jacquie's site

www.jacquieharvey.co.uk

Book Cover

Pat loves making mixed media backgrounds and then she

includes many techniques to make

them all look so different.

This one has areas removed with a soldering iron.

Finished Quilts

The Quilts been made are varied too!

Here is a traditional one and one made for a nephew

out of his football shirts, sweatshirts and shorts.

Both are really finished to a high standard.

@The Gallery Tuesday the 31st of January 2012

Class was full as usual and there were lots of projects

starting and gathering momentum.

I have taken in the ink jet printer so that

students could print their photos onto fabric.

There are so many different ways of using the

photo fabric images.