Snowman

I thought you would like to see the christmas card that I gave to Pauline a friend from Preston Lacemakers group. I am a newish member of this group and Pauline has took me under her wing and has been teaching me tatting and crochet. She gave me a lovely hand made card for my birthday and I said I would have to make her a handmade card for christmas.
Well I did it - my first attempt at making lace and here it is.

A lace snowman.

Pauline was very pleased with it.

Merry Xmas everyone and a Happy New Year.

Happy Xmas

I have put up my christmas decorations at last - very minimal. I have decided that I am having an alternative style christmas tree - which I quite like for a change.

I have also been busy making a wreath for my mums grave which I was quite pleased with.

Merry Christmas

Can't believe where this year has gone and we are now at Christmas. I haven't posted for a while - so I thought I would update you by showing you a couple of pics.

 

This is at a craft fair at Samlesbury Hall that The Three Stitches ( Sue, Caroline  & me) displayed and sold our work at.

This last photo is our stall at a recent craft fair at Chipping Village Hall which we all enjoyed doing.

Festival of Quilts - NEC,Birmingham

Had a lovely day at the Festival of Quilts with my friend Sue Chisnall-Sumner. We had a good spend and enjoyed looking at all the quilts on exhibition.
Bought some marbling supplies between us, so we will be having a playday with these soon and will post photos of our marblings.
Here are some photos I took of quilts and 3d items in the exhibition.

Birthday Girl

It was my birthday last Saturday and I had a lovely day at Preston Lace Makers group.

 I have been a member for about 18 months and really enjoy going to meetings as I never fail to learn some new skill.

This month I was shown how to make a Japanese Ring Thimble by a nice lady called Felicity who heard me say to Pauline another member that I was sorry to have missed the workshop in June when members where shown how to make them.

Here is my finished thimble – it looks mega larger than it is as I took a close up of the ring to show the pattern.

 

I have started on a second one and will post a picture when it’s finished……………………..

 

Spirit of Place continued

As you know I am a member of Natural Progression Textile Group and our exhibition “Spirit of Place” is to continue at Alston Hall until 30^th August 2014

There was a write up about our exhibition in the Lancashire Evening Post last night – I was unable to go to Alston Hall for the photo shoot – and it looks really good. A full page with a good write up and photos of some of our members and their pieces of work. Well done to Sue Chisnall-Sumner for getting us this attention.

 

We are also very pleased that our group have been accepted by the Museum of Lancashire to exhibit in 2016 which I will let you know more about when we have exact dates etc.

EG Summer School –Alston Hall

I had another enjoyable time this year at the Embroiderer’s Guild North West summer school which was held as usual at Alston Hall.

The tutor was Elizabeth Cousins-Scott and she started us off doing small sketches in the garden which we then used as our inspiration for mono printing and making a printing block for block prints.

Here are some photos of my work – the sketch I used was of the branches in the trees which was quite abstract looking and I’m not sure if I like the motif but I enjoyed doing the printing

 

I went for a bit of fresh air in the garden and here’s what I spotted – magical

 

 

Spirit of Place

We have set up the exhibition 'Spirit of Place' at Alston Hall and it looks fab.

The exhibition runs from 30th June to 2nd August, with the preview on Thursday 3rd July 7.00pm to 9.00pm- all welcome - see you there.
The Hall is open seven days a week -9.00am to 5.00pm & some evenings- please contact the hall 01772 784661 to confirm.

The address is Alston Hall College, Alston Lane, Longridge, Preston, Lancs PR3 3BP.

Here are a few close ups snaps I took of some of the pieces to tickle your tastebuds - I am sure you will like them.

Rusty stuff

I went to a workshop tutored by Alice Fox recently on dyeing paper and fabric with Rust.I really enjoyed the workshop and thought you would like to see some of my samples.

 

These are all on paper.

 

 

These are on fabric

 

 

 

 

This is a small piece of work using both paper and fabric which have been stitched into.

 

 

 

Ducks on the fence

I saw this the other day in my next door neighbours garden and couldn't resist taking some photos as it looked so funny!!

                                    

 

 

Not sure what the middle one was checking with me? Probably wondering why I was taking a photo?

 

Sucess

Hi all

We had a really lovely exhibition at the Art House Gallery in Southport and I actually sold a piece of work.

 

 

I am well pleased.

 

 

here are a few photos of the preview as well