Cecile

This is the doll made for Jacky's birthday. Her name is Cecile.

It is so great when you get to meet the recipient of your work. so many times I never get to see who receives my work as it is bought for gifts or gets sent overseas. So it was a real treat to see her unwrap Cecile on her birthday!

Wonderful class last week!

Last weekend I had more lovely students in class and we had a most gorgeous day!
Dot and Jacky had a wonderful time discovering the wonderful world of felt and produced excellent results. I have very high hopes for them - I really feel they will be beautiful felt artists.

As you can see Jacky is hard at work - concentrating hard - but Dot took time to smile for the camera! Actually she didn't stop grinning all day. In fact I was certain she probably drove home that way as well! What a happy world if we were all this delighted.

Ahhhhhh.............................. I know, we should all be felting!

Twilight Roosting

Hi everyone,

Well I finally got the courage to cut up my felt and start doing the embroidery. It was always intended for a pair of dolls and then I just had a couple of days of misgivings!

After stitching madly for a couple of days I made these 2 up. A mother and daughter watching the birds come in to roost.

I really enjoyed making the dolls into a scene rather than in isolation. It tells more of a story and stretches me to think of a setting in which to place them.

The birds were created from leftover scraps and the trees were made from what I found in my garden. I am definitely making more trees they were great fun to do!

Am working on some more now!

Progress in twilight colours

Now that I have started work with these shades I find that they remind me of twilight - you know that gorgeous lavender time of day - when the sun has set and the dark is still a little way off. It seems that shadows are a beautiful magical shade of lavender grey.

I just love it - I think Autumn is a good time for witnessing this.

When the light is golden and and hard edges disappear.

Colours to Challenge

As most of you will know I am generally driven by the bright colours in the spectrum.

For a challenge I have decided to concentrate on a more subtle palette and see where it takes me. I was beinning to think that those brights were who I am as an artist and certainly they act as a magnet. BUT you can almost preclude yourself from a particular set of shades.

So this week I endeavoured to OVERCOME it!

Here are the colours - there is a selection of grey, gold, cinnamon and lavender - you can also see a few bits of cut up knitwear that I ill be adding. Heaven knows what I will do with it!

Long Overdue Post!

I am remarkably tardy in keeping up with this blog. I am really sorry to those of you who have actually logged in to see if I have got my act together.
From hereon I will attempt to stick to a weekly post!

Earlier this year I was very lucky to have an article printed in Cloth Paper Scissors - I was absolutely staggered to discover that I had been selected on the cover as well!

It is amazing how you plug away at your craft for years and then such a lucky and delightful thing comes along like this!

Studios! Cloth Paper Scissors

This week I have some really exciting news!

I am in the next issue of "Studios" put out by the wonderful team at Cloth Paper Scissors

http://www.quiltingarts.com/

I was very lucky to be a featured studio. It looks so tidy I was quite surprised! Please believe me - this is not the case very often. Although I do believe in one type of item per storage unit. Also labelling them!

The other thing is finding a day each month (or whenever) to tidy said storage units and get back into Tidyland again.