STITCHWORKS

This piece is finished now, except for putting it on a backing. Its hard to know when to stop the 'seeding'. A good stitch to do wh...

I have just received my first copies of 'Cloth, Paper & Scissors' and 'Quilting Arts', thanks to reading about them on ...

For the second version of the Tissue Paper Poppy I am using the silk carrier rods which I used in the pieces which I showed in my first post...

This is the bead sample which I could not resist on Saturday. It only cost £6. It is a funny mixture really, heavy metal discs together wit...

I am quite pleased with how this first piece has come together and am saying to myself that this is a good plan, to work on one image which...

It is May Day bank holiday here which means the luxury of having Monday off work. This has given me some time to get side tracked from the p...

This is a close up which shows the couching stitch well. It can be interesting to remember how threads are acquired. Many of mine are bought...

It is satisfying to sort out the threads for a project. Here I have couched down threads and strips of material with free machining. In plac...

These are the threads and materials sorted for the 'Tissue Paper Poppy' project. My plan is to work on three small pieces, a mini s...

I really liked the colours in a magazine photo of 'Meconopsis Quintuplinervia', the harebell poppy to those of us who are not garden...

Last October I went to the Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexander Palace. I have been many times now and always find something interesting...

Recently I have printed and dyed some calico using procion and fabric paints. I have a skeleton leaf thermo-screen which I bought from Comm...

On Saturday 25th I went to the V&A museum in London for a one day course. We spent time briefly in the SE Asia Gallery with the idea of ...

This is the current background on my computer screen. I stitched some metal mesh onto a piece of acrylic felt. I painted the felt with acry...

In 2005 I worked on a project called Poetry in Stitches organized by the National Needlework Archive . This linked up with a scheme to prov...

This is a small quilted hanging with some mono prints of the fields nearby. It is machine and hand stitched on a background of rusted fabric...

There seems to have been a move to spring clean.Over on smarcoux there is a pic of an impressive fabric stash. I am always moving things aro...

It is interesting to photograph dyed and printed fabric and use it as a background for other images. This is a piece of calico printed with ...

The 'book wrap' photo holder is now finished. I tried out the wax pot to make the inner lining, using a method which I saw on a blog...