It's a whole week now since I returned from exhibiting at the Great Northern Craft Fair in Manchester,

a whole week!! I honestly don't know where the time has gone. I had planned on my return to make loads more pieces as my head was full of ideas and where are these pieces? still in my head! it always amazes me that on return from shows and exhibitions all my ideas and schemes for new work simply just disappear as I have been purely exhausted. Today, however I am thrilled that  I have finished a piece which I have called "An Eight Inch Square" The lovely ladies of the Milton Kenyes Embroiderers Guild have asked me to exhibit a piece of work alongside their exhibition "Tyranny of the Eight Inch Square" I was delighted to be asked and so hence have made this lady with a patched coat. www.mkgallery.org/education/projectspace/  December 6th - 30th

 

Now I am getting ready and  preparing  for MADE London A new and exciting Craft Fair, 26th-28th October to be held at One Marylebone NW1 4AQ. www.madelondon.org

I hope you will be able to come along and say hello and see my machine embroideries.

 

 



A selection of little pieces I have been working on this week.

Ummmh, I wonder if those robins are really standing on those cats heads, or are those cats just dreaming?

I am getting ready for the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair in Manchester.  4th -7th October. www.greatnorthernevents.co.uk/ 

Blowy Leaves

 

Although it has been a little breezy today it has been nothing like the image in this embroidery.
The sunny warm weather has been glorious and I am loving it, however I am not being entirely fooled by this sunshine as I have spied the trees and seen the leaves on the turn, they don't look as ragged in previous early autumn years but the tell tale signs of the season a-changing is there, so I am smugly ahead of the game as I start to make autumn themed pieces.

Chichester Embroiderers Guild

 

I spent a lovely day with some of the delightful, friendly and wonderfully talented stitchers of the Chichester Embroiderers Guild, and this is what every one made, in one day!! well done everyone.
We had a great day, lots of laughter and lots of delicious ginger cake to keep all our energy levels high.
Keep up all the good work, and I look forward to the next time we meet.
Thank you Hilary for your photographs.
happy stitching x



I'm off to the Cornwall Design Fair 17th-19th August, Trereife House, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, TR20 8TJ www.trereifepark.co.uk  and accompanying me will be this piece "Windy Beach" 13.5x13cm which I finished this week, I hope very much that's its not windy when I get there but glorious sunshine!

I have been away from the studio so much recently with holidays, days out and teaching. All of it has been truly lovely, and as always those experiences are very very rewarding but, and I am so glad to have experienced them, they all add to the person that you are, but, and here is the but, how lovely it is to be back in my studio and making again, such a simple pleasure that brings me such joy.
Here are two oystercatchers, the result of my toils of the latter part of this week. I am off to the coast this weekend and I hope very much to see lots of these shoreline birds.