STITCHWORKS

Here are some images of the books I have made for the mini book swap on http://wovenletters.blogspot.com/ I used some remnants of leather I...

Dear Reader I hope you will find this interesting; it is interesting for me to track how ideas for these two pieces came together. There ...

Last night we went to the Private View for the ‘Made to Fit’ exhibition which is in the newly refurbished Willis Museum until mid April. ...

TECTONIC PLATES Originally uploaded by DBO PONDERS TECTONIC PLATES EXHIBITIONAn exhibition of plate designs by UK & International Artist...

' THE GHOST' To cheer me up today I received an email from Heike Gerbig to tell me that I am one of three lucky people to win a v...

A little bit of everything of course, I was reading about Snippety Gibbet not being able to stick to a 'to do' list - I can’t really...

I’m very pleased this year to have had both the pieces I submitted for the ‘Made to Fit’ exhibition accepted. This is an annual exhibition, ...

I have been working on my butterfly felt. The felt itself is very fine and probably I should have made a more substantial piece of felt; I d...

The HEN embroidery site has a new on-line exhibition up and there are varied entries from a number of countries. See my links. Have a look a...

On the last session of Louise Baldwin’s course the theme was distressed paper. We had suggestions, one being machining a grid on the paper ...

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...