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  • My jacket

    My husband has told me to make a jacket for myself  before I do anymore,the last 3 I have done for myself  I have been persuaded to part with them but this one I will keep it is very boxy… Continue reading

  • Summer is here

    well a Royal Wedding a beautiful day here in Normanton and the SUMMER is here. I have been screenprinting a jacket for myself inspired by the garden and the colours here. Continue reading

  • New work

    Well all my pieces finished for the book and a couple of commisions done leave s me to develop a new technique for my printing silk then making the nuno felt.I am deconstructing the screen-printing and after the initial pass… Continue reading

  • Competition Winner

    Well at along last I can show you the images of the jacket designed for the Fall winner Dawn Edwards,she sure looks beautiful and is photographed by her son Ryan who is a photographer. Thanks for being so patient Dawn… Continue reading

  • My world in the sunshine

    It is such a beautiful day here today and the baby Zwartbles look so playful a set of triplets and twins complete the scene. view from the kitchen stable door new fruit trees planted and Zwartbles feeding with mum by… Continue reading

  • Everywhere and Nowhere

    The sky at sea—everywhere and nowhere ARE quotes phrases we’ve remembered for when we might need to say a load of trivia when words will not talk for you When you want your thoughts  to be transparent yet deeply private… Continue reading

  • Book Designs and Turkish Felting

    Sometimes colours and colour mixes just sing to you and almost indicate what they will become.Whilst sorting out the studio and going through fibres and papers I found a template of a bag I made first many years ago.I remember… Continue reading

  • such fun

    I have had such fun today sorting out all my fibres and re catalogueing and putting silks away and washing silks and also using the bits from some of the projects for the book—so we waste nothing. I have recently… Continue reading

  • Nonfeltingday

    Some days believe it or not you are all felted out and a day of colour and playing with dyes is a  respite.I have felted every day for 12 days and am tired now so today was dye day,and I… Continue reading

  • Best laid plans

    I have tried to settle down to felting  today but it has been one of those days,my sister phoned me from France to tell me her husband had fallen off his ladder and was in A French ICU with a punctured lung… Continue reading

Felt,Stitch and Embellish fibres

Felt,Stitch and Embellish fibres

Felt,Stitch and Embellish fibres