Evening Class

The evening class in Machine Embroidery that I have been running for the last 6 weeks has finished. 

A very big thank you to my wonderfully clever, talented, inspirational and truly delightful students that I have had the pleasure of working with throughout the course.

Well done everybody and happy stitching, keep up the good work!



Silkie Red Swim Suit

Just finished and ready to be framed - "Silkie Red Swim Suit" my last piece for the collection of pieces that I have made for The Ropewalk Gallery.
Denise Brown and Linda Miller. Box Gallery17th March 2012 - 15th April 2012 .

The Ropewalk, Maltkiln Road, Barton upon Humber,North Lincolnshire, DN18 5JT
http://www.the-ropewalk.co.uk 

 

West Dean Weekend

This time last week the wonderful students who came on the Machine Embroidery Making Pictures weekend at West Dean were busy showing off their fantastic pictures to the camera and to each other, and I hope very much every one else who they met last week too!
It was a  fabulous weekend, 
happy stitching and thank you everybody!

Lovely clever stitchers at the end of the Cowslip Workshops with all their beautiful machine embroideries, ooh, what a wonderful weekend. Well done everyone and happy stitching!

Strip pieces idea

I have been preparing for a children's fabric applique workshop that I am holding later on in the month, and needed to rummage in my fabric stash for suitable fabrics for the workshop, (I like to be prepared early in advance) of course I came across long lost friends in my hoardings and couldn't help myself but assemble some of them together and have started to create a little bit of piecing together. The sheer joy of laying down fabric scraps and sewing them together has really lifted my spirits in this rather drab drizzly Saturday afternoon, I hope very much that my little charges in a few weeks time will feel the same too, I hope also that the drizzle has been swapped for the sunshine by then.

Repeats

Kirstie's Handmade Britain Television programme is currently being repeated again on Saturday evenings,  at 7.10pm on More Four channel,  the episode with Jo Colwill and myself is going to be aired this Saturday, coincidental I am teaching at Jo's wonderfully inspiring Cowslip Workshops this Saturday and Sunday and I shall be showing my workshop students how to work with the exciting Soluble Fabric and what you can make with it, watch this space!

In the last eighteen months on my daily train journey to the studio I've been crocheting hexagons as seen and inspired from the lovely attic 24 blog site, and here finally is my finished blanket! It is truly a riot of colour. My criteria was that I was only going to use yarn I had already (I had been very luck and been given lots independently from two Friends who were both moving houses) of course as soon as I starting my hooky heaven pilgrimage I broke my criteria instantly, how can one resist going into any yarn shop on ones travels and not seeing the perfect coloured yarn for ones blanket!