Bolliwood Turrets

Jeanette is layering her Bolliwood Turrets so they are 3D.

If you look at the two pictures you will may just

spot the difference.....

The door decoration has been changed.

The small bells which are in the picture directly above

were a little too big and heavy for the piece.

So, Jeanette took them off and sewed the

sequins and beads on instead.

They really do the trick!

This is going to be an amazing finished piece.

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Textile Dream Tree

Pippa has now cut out her textile tree

and is working on the mixed media background.

Next week it is adding in the leaves and "Grounding",

the tree and then the adding

of all the wonderful objects to hang from the

branches.

Dreams and wishes as well as

pieces with special meaning.

I love these pieces where artists can explore their

creativity and learn techniques which they can

develop later in other pieces.

Pippa is really getting to grips with her

sewing machine which was on her

wish list to learn.

Keep watching!

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and at

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Wallhanging

Stella is making a wallhanging for her Grand Daughter's

birthday.

It has to be very contemporary and within certain

colour restraints due to the decoration in the intended's home.

It also contains Stella's Daughter's dress, so there

is going to be a heritage piece too!

(It is the white material with the black flowers).

All the fabrics were vintage or recycled so

it's clever aswell!

I always like quilts that follow the tradition

of patchwork and quilting.

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Embellished Needlecase

Stella made an embellished felt needlecase.

She had a very small one which had been made

for her by a Brownie over 20 years ago.

(See picture above)

It was a shame to put this aside so

it was sewn inside the new case.

A lovely item and keepsake.

It made us all smile:)

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Gallery Day 8th March 2011

Carol is beginning a new wallhanging using a 1930's

window as inspiration.

She is using the "Stained Glass Window" patchwork technique.

Here it is all cut out and ready for the bias binding that goes

in between the pieces to make it look like a stained glass

window.

This will look very striking when it's finished.

Well done, Carol.

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India Inspired Notebook Details

OOOh! I just love these colours.

So vibrant and full of texture!

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by clicking HERE

Notebook Covers

With the India Inspired Banner in mind

I have been delving into my scrapbag of ribbon like fabrics.

I will admit I do sort my scraps into colours or projects so

I can return and make other items from them.

(I think everyone has their favourite media or colour range).

So the scraps are all sewed together with

machine stitch and then machine embroidered

over the top of this.

Embellished with thread and more stitches.

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Indian Banner

This is one of my Banner Quilts which was inspired by travels

to India. This in turn has inspired me

to make some sketchbook covers.

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clicking HERE

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Paper and Stitch Sketch and Notebook

As you can see the Vintage Envelopes inspired these Paper Stitch

and Collaged Art books.

They are both for sale and are on my website.

You can see them and how they were made

in detail,

by clicking

Journal

or

Notebook

The sales post is on

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Art Inspiration

It is sometimes good to go back to some of your favourite art pieces

when you are practising particular media.

I have used the Vintage Envelopes I made last year and my

Vintage Lace Collages as a

starting point and added it to the Inspiration from the

'Textile In Focus', exhibition.

Alongside ingredients I had in my stash to make

a 'Paper and Stitch', collaged journal cover.

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to see more of this inspiration.

Coven Quilters with Kate's Quilt

This quilt has been another labour of love for Kate.

Machine pieced with many African fabrics.

Kate is now in the process of hand quilting it.

Kate had it basted together

(quilt front,wadding and backing put together)

by Jenny at Harmony Quilting

in Watton, Norfolk.

It has been done so well it will make

quilting so much easier.

I would have struggled even with my 8 ft table!

The quilt is for Kate's son.

Ooo isn't he lucky.

We are persuading Kate to put it in for the

Summer Samphire Exhibition as

work in progress!

Kate's Reversable Quilt

Kate has made a truly reversible quilt

using Kaffe Fasset fabrics .

She is showing the back of the quilt in the first picture.

It is made up of 2" squares.

(finished,so you start by cutting a 2.5" square).

The front are large 10" squares and everyone of them has a message

on them which quests at her Birthday wrote and

Kate then Hand Embroidered.

See previous post for details.

Wow, Kate well done!

Kate's Birthday Quilt

Bess loves quilts and of course, helping you look for names!

Tea and Cake

We were lucky at this month's meeting of Coven to be celebrating

two birthdays as our meeting date feel after both of them.

Now Kate is wonderful and makes a cake each meeting.

We have tea and cake in her wonderful

Victorian style Conservatory which looks over her

beautiful town garden.

Kate always plays 'Mum' too!

There were two cakes this time,

Coffee and Walnut or Cherry and Cream Sponge.

Beautiful! some had a slice of both!

(I can't talk because one of them was me!!!)

The years really fly by,

we have been meeting for over 12 years now,

what wonderful memories!

Jellyroll Quilt Top

Jane got a Jellyroll pack of fabrics and a Jellyroll book

from the Coven members for Birthday

and here is the quilt top she has made with it.

The jelly roll fabric made the centre panel

and she added what fabric she had to the border.

We all liked the 1950's feel of this quilt it's so

fresh looking.

Then there was the discussion about the back!

should it be a sheet or a pieced back.

We all agreed that you appreciate a pieced

patterned back rather than a plain sheet!

patterned fabric also hides some quilting

hic cups!!! not that we have those, do we?

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