STITCHWORKS

Thank you for the encouragement with regard to the Beta hiccups. I am sure it will all work out for the best. I have already been able to ad...

Having just bought myself a big treat, a Wacom Tablet, I should have been very busy getting to know it, but the fact is that I have been bus...

I am starting to work on the shaped felt now. Above is a sample, made years ago, based on a dry stone wall in The Lake District. I remember...

Having a blog since the start of this year has brought me a lot of new interest and satisfaction; not least of which was selling one of my b...

I was at Alexandra Palace yesterday. The show was amazing as usual, a chance to see top textile artists and to shop till you drop. However, ...

I have had my first go at this type of felt today, inspired by a piece I saw at Windsor by Angela Scolding which was based on a crab shell...

The background in this piece was first drawn with felt tips and then sprayed with water as described in Sherril Kahn's book 'Creatin...

We have been to London to see The Scrawl Collective exhibition. The setting and the large scale work was impressive. More by accident than a...

When I followed some links to find out what Parfait dyeing is, I found mention of Ann Johnston's book 'Colour by Accident' and i...

This is my new' inspiration wire' copied from an idea on port2port .I am using it for unfinshed pieces and samples at the moment. ...

We had a lovely morning visiting some of the open studios in the Hampshire Artists scheme.Prints, felt,glass and digital photos were particu...

There are quite a few photos on blogs from people who attended this event last week in Birmingham. This is my favourite part, the virtual s...

Things seem to be back to normal now. The computer is, hopefully, well protected from viruses and I have a back up system. Along the way I a...

You will note the lack of photos. I am in fact only able to post by 'borrowing' my husband's computer. Terrible things have happ...

Here are some pictures of the laundry room at a National Trust House, Kingston Lacy, which I visited this week. It gives some idea of the a...

After ages I decided to have a go with my embroidery unit on the Pfaff 7570. It has been interesting and less frustrating than in the past, ...

Just to show that I have done some batik with my new wax pot. I treated myself to it with the money from a few items I sold at a craft fair....

On Saturday we had a family outing to an event called Art in Action held in the grounds of Waterperry House in Oxfordshire. An annual event...

Here is some lovely colour in a Coleus leaf. Apparently each one has a slightly different pattern and colouring. The garden is lovely at t...

My first swap all the way from Winnetka arrived this week from http://missellz.typepad.com/missellz . A lot of thought went into it, includ...