STITCHWORKS

When I was in London I bought a bag of scrap papers from Faulkiners. This week I decided to put some of them into a small sketchbook. If you...

If like me you are a fan of buttons, especially old ones, I’m sure you would find these fascinating. At a stitch and chat group I go to some...

The topic for this week was ‘Plain weave card, paper and mixed media with stitch’, for some reason I never really get on with weaving strips...

These are another couple of samples from my recent course. The idea was to take in an image, paint papers and then layer marks to make in...

This small felt bag was made just before Christmas, and as you see I have been braver and made it without seams and still managed some fre...

As promised, a couple of samples from the Louise Baldwin class at City Lit., this was the Paper Rolling and Binding session. As you can see...

Chosen by that random number generator the winners are: corduroy cat Please contact me by e-mail (see Profile) and I will forward your prize...

As I mentioned I am part way through a five week evening class on Paper and Mixed Media Surfaces. The tutor is Louise Baldwin whose work I h...

This is my first give away. Firstly, it’s aimed to thank all the people who have joined my followers list to keep me Blogging, especially th...

I made another piece of felt last week using pieces of sari ribbon and banana fibre for texture and colour. I enjoyed watching the texture ...

As two of my courses are included in the Hen tuition section. Today, finally the HEN online tuition has gone live! This is the first wave ...

THE ZEPPLIN SHELTER Originally uploaded by DBO PONDERS This is part of the work which was done by my son; he worked really hard, and both de...

I had a very enjoyable day on Saturday as one of the workshops I had organized actually ran. There were seven students for the five hour wo...

Just for fun and because I had seen the tutors’ work at Art in Action I went along to the City Lit in London for a one day introduction to ...

It was a lovely sunny day in Winchester yesterday and I tried to appreciate it in the way a visitor of mine recently did. Firstly I went to...

On Friday this week I went along to a workshop organized as part of The Big Draw which is now an annual event in England to encourage drawin...

I enjoyed my visit to the Knit and Stitch on Sunday. Its three years since I was there, which I think is a good thing as everything seemed ...

I have been working on some felt using Lisa Klakulak’s method of free machining to build up texture; obviously this is only in a very amate...

Another Treasury here Lovely title 'Autumn spiked with Turquoise'. Its nice to be chosen.