Saturday, 28 April 2012

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday



I did make cards, but I've put them down somewhere, and can't find them.. I have been working hard on this quilt (Tiger In The Morning) for me trip to Holland with Oakshott Fabrics for the OEQC
Pattern soon..
And a finished image.
And the next one, which is a Trees Quilt with Oakshott White Marble fabrics
And lots of other stuff
And more cards..
Sleep tight

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Monday's Crumbs and Tuesdays Card, too

Top, Crumbs 3; Bottom, Dressmaking
Teaching all day, tired and eyes are hurting...
And here's the quilt that the crumbs fell from..
Which in turn is the crumbs from another.. Obsessive-compulsive? Me? No!

Sunday, 22 April 2012

Sunday 22nd April, More Crumbs

Crumbs 2
Japanese, batik, Oakshott, linen, leftover instructions, all from the edge of the table while I was working on a bigger piece.
Of which more later..

Saturday, 21 April 2012

Saturday 21st April, Crumbs

Crumbs 1
Sorry, not a brilliant photo.. Too tired.. I drove almost 1000 miles in the last 8 days, and I'm totally wiped out.
£5 inc postage anywhere

Friday, 20 April 2012

Thursday and Friday's Cards

Arsenic and Old Lace
£7 including postage

Tiger/Peacock. Made at the Trees class in Reading today..
  This card has been posted...

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Tuesday - mislaid the camera

 Wednesday's card is God Of The Edges Rinses Himself In The River; screen-print on hand-dyed fabric, machine stitch: £11 inc postage
And Tuesday's is Little Home In The Woods;  commercial printed and hand-embroidered vintage fabrics, machine stitch;  £6
Off to Hexagon Quilters at Reading tomorrow, but I do have a couple of cards in hand..

Monday, 16 April 2012

Monday - God Of The Edges Takes A Bubble Bath

Screen-print on Oakshott Fabrics Longshott woven stripe, and bubbly stitches.. Actually unconnected with today's work apart from the conversation with Michael from Oakshotts about our Dutch trip in May..
And another in my Accidental Faces series
Little rusty piece from the car-park of the Ferry..

Sunday, 15 April 2012

Sunday, back ache and crumpled stitches

Sunflower
Crinkled cotton fabric; buttons and beads; vintage printed skirt fabric; dye; hand- and machine-stitches.
Back-ache? Too much driving...

Saturday, 14 April 2012

Saturday, Chickens In The Dooryard


Front and back..
For sale, £8 including postage anywhere

Friday, 13 April 2012

Oh, it was in the computer case..

Wierd fabric
£7 including postage anywhere

Friday, Tree Card.. Thursday's has gone for a walk..

Friday's card is called Green Trees, and was made during my Trees class at Vectis Quilters on the Isle of Wight.. Thanks to all for a great couple of days.. Uploading this from the Isle Of Wight ferry, which is steaming backwards out of Cowes utterly loaded to the gills with screaming children and football fans.. Oh, joy, oh, jubilation..
This card has been Posted..

Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Wednesday Postcard

 Volcanic.  Block print and commercial batik; black printed words on white, distorted to unreadability; prairie points with and without inset lines; hand and machine stitch
For sale; £11 including postage anywhere.  See link on the right for exchanges
And the first of two pieces (seen here in progress) made by cutting and re-assembling a black-on-white and a whitish-on-black screen print pair, with insets of this delicious strawberry red with white spots.
More of these later, when quilted

Tuesday, a bit late to the bits..

Cow Parsley
and the work that inspired it, also called Cow Parsley at present (this is a detail, as it's not bound yet..) Sometimes the titles stick, sometimes not..
£8 including postage worldwide
It's gloriously sunny and freezing cold out.  Tomorrow I drive to the Isle of Wight, to teach and talk.. A sea voyage!  Good for the constitution...

Monday, 9 April 2012

Monday's Card, front and back






I've been experimenting with the Sparkle Punch Quilt pattern, (see the Oh Fransson link on the right), adding my own take on scrappiness and colours - the originals are mostly one-colour/one fabric stars.. Mine have 9 in each colour.. Good for using-up scraps..
Monday's postcard is smaller versions of the blocks (these finish at 2 inches square) and I found this selvedge (I don't usually "do" selvedges) to add to the back, from the last piece I cut for the quilt I'm making..
£11 including postage, or see link on the right for exchanges
Not a great photo of the quilt, sorry, but this is it so far - the columns have been stitched but not the rows.. Looking at it led me to think that an oblong starting block would be interesting.
I'm not sure if this is the middle of a practical quilt or a wall piece.. As it's not my pattern, it's not saleable, of course..
Ah, well, back to the ironing..
To exchange a postcard with me, see the Link on the right of this page..

Sunday, 8 April 2012

Sunday's Textile Postcard

Log-cabin piecing; screen-print; buttonhole sample that has been sitting around on my home sewing machine forever; stitch.
Made on Saturday night (7th April 2012)
For sale, £11 including postage anywhere in the world
Part three of a running series, I hope to do this every day for a while...
More postcards Here
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Saturday, 7 April 2012

Postcard 2

Cream Leaves 2
Screen-print in cream on cream calico, stitch.
For sale, £8 including postage anywhere in the world
Part two of a running series, I hope to do this every day for a while...
I also hope to link to the day's work each day, if possible
More postcards Here
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Friday, 6 April 2012

New Project - Daily Postcards

Cream Leaf 1
Screen-print in cream on cream calico, stitch.
For sale, £8 including postage anywhere in the world
Part one of a running series, I hope to do this every day for a while...
More postcards Here

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Blue skies and rain

It's raining.  The garden drinks and is happy.  I'm indoors and busy. This image from a few days ago in the Spring sunshine