STITCHWORKS

Too many ideas. Can’t keep to one. A good thing or bad. Excitement, inspiration, crazy must does. Why? Purpose none. Just to keep going day ...

Continuing with a theme for once, at least for a short time, I have worked on the close up of the lemon skin. I machined into the Indian rag...

I was quite productive last week and using some close up photos of a lemon and a houseplant leaf I started to develop some designs. I don’t ...

Trying to make time to update my Etsy store after many months. I have added these two small quilted wall hangings or throws. ' Raspberr...

The best guess for the last one was an Owl, could be, but can you work out what this one is - by the way there is a clue in the last post. ...

I’ve been doing some felting .Just to see if I could remember how and also to use the wool which I gathered in Ireland when we were there th...

Once again playing around with wax collage; this started with thinking of ideas of how to use the metal from coke cans. It has bits of cris...

I’ve never really liked encaustic art, but at the same time I’m fascinated by the use of wax on paper and fabric. Looking round the internet...

I'm having a lucky month having been chosen for another Etsy Treasury. http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=11524 Have ...

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=10468 DBO (we are related) has an exhibition in London in June - read all about it ...

Cornstarch Paste (courtesy of Collage Source Book. Karen McCarthy) Dissolve 1 cup into 1 cup of room temperature water. Heat slowly. Gradual...

http://foofanagle.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/bagsket-tutorial/ Here is a link to the tutorial for this bagsket. I enjoyed making this as some...

Just for fun I made this little accordion fold book for someone who has just moved house. I remember making paste paper when I was at school...

My book is finished now and I am busy trying to complete all the assessment paperwork. This week we set up the studio for the end of year e...

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=40412 This is a link to an Etsy treasury that I am in . Many thanks to Liz Plummer of Dreaming...

On a programme we have in the UK called University Challenge there was a question last night about signs and symbols and I got them all righ...

I have decided to call my piece ,in the form of an artist’s book, Tribal Messages. It will juxtapose contemporary signs and symbols with tra...

Over Easter I did a four day workshop in printing; as usual it was exhausting but really interesting. Fortunately there were a range of diff...

For the final project I am going to be working with images from packaging. I started by scanning in lots of bits of packaging I had saved, ...