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It’s CLEAR OUT / UP TIME!

 

Gardening

If you’ve been wondering why it’s been so quiet on the stitching front, here is your answer.

I’ve spent days and days in the garden - have got to middle age and caught the bug!  (Also have more energy these days to get physical tasks completed without serious side effects).  I still take it easy, don’t get too tired and just plod along.   

If you wish you can follow from the dedicated website or Facebook page.  

I’m just having fun and doing this for my own satisfaction.

I SO hope it all grows!

Website here

Another new Online Workshop

Today I’d like to introduce you to another Online Workshop - this time an Indian Paisley.

Yes, thats why I’ve been quite here, I’ve been stitching, photographing, writing up and website building.

 

This is a great workshop using weaving, printing, appliqué, FME, hand stitching and beading.

 

 

 

Here are a few sample pages as examples.  
The workshops all come as downloadable PDF booklets and you can easily pay via Paypal (and you don’t need an account).

 

 

 

New Online Workshop

Good Morning from sunny Northumberland!

I’m really pleased to announce that another workshop is now ready to download from 
www.textilegoddess.org my online workshop and book site.

This workshop uses only hand stitching so its perfect to finish on a lazy sunny day or to take on journeys.

 

There is loads more info on the website - example pages and a requirements list.

 

 

Now I must run and get on with the third workshop - this one will involve appliqué and free motion machine embroidery and has a certain Indian flavour!

 

 

JQ February

Continuing with the theme of a "sense of place", "trackways",and a "personal journey" within the Land of the Far Horizons.

JQ for February 2014.

This piece represents the hills above Haugh Head on the way into Wooler along the top road.
Hand painted and hand dyed fabrics, oil paint rubbings and FME.

2014 Journal Quilts Part 1

I’ve signed up for the 2014 Journal Quilt challenge for the Contemporary Quilters Guild GB, this year they have to be 8x8” and must have a line running through.

 

Over the next few days I’ll post up the first four - I think of these as samples and I’m hoping to get into gear and creat two quilts for Festival of Quilts - one for the CQGB challenge which needs to be 120x50cm and one for the general show. 

Yes I know, I need to get moving on these.

 

For 2014 I decided to continue with the theme of a sense of place with the Land of the Far Horizons.
Interpreting the Northumberland landscape, with special reference to the archaeology and history. 

Here is the JQ for January 2014.

This work is based on the Cup and Ring carved rocks we find on the hills around here.
Hand painted background, hand carved stamps and FME. Relief printing inks.

 

 

The Collage Week

The Abstract Week

Week 13 was an abstract challenge and I loved it.
I’m also loving the new fine liner tips and bottles from AVG.  Perfect for lettering. 

And it was a week where the PVA bottle literally shattered in my hand.  Mmm, not so good :(  Thank goodness for having polythene to protect the tables.

Now I’m away to write up the next Online Workshop - this one is a Tree of Life Goddess.
Join the mailing list if you want to be updated when it launches. 

 

What you can achieve in a month

 

 

Has it really been a month since I last posted?

Guess it has.

So what has happened….. well let’s see;

1. DH has been made redundant and is at home digging more flower beds and altering all the possible combinations in my car every time he drives it.

2. As DH looses a job I gain one…. and realise that the ME is only lurking below the surface :(  Despite only working one day a week (and I am grateful for that one day) it’s a job on my feet all day and as I crawl into bed on the evening I know its going to take me three days to recover.  Darn it.  Writing this I’ve realised I’ve been working about 5 weeks and not doing much creative or blogging (or gardening or much at all apart from feeling dreadful).

3. My Dad turned 70!!!  Crikey, where did that time go?  

4. My little boy is growing up FAST.  From looking too grown up in a new shirt and skinny jeans, to his cheek bones popping through, to “hanging out” in town with his mates to being 5 inches taller than mum.  All seems to have happened overnight.  I’m such a proud mummy :)

5. My greenhouse is bursting at the seams with seedlings.  Note to self; Do not sown so many at the same time in 2015.  Live ’n’ learn.

6. Whilst the south of England has been bathing itself in sunshine and warmth, Northumberland has been rocking its mean ’n’ moody image with dense fog, mist, clarts (that’s mud for the southerners), rain and freezing temperatures.  Today is the first warmish day we’ve had for…… nearly two weeks?

View from Black Middens Bastle House.  " A bastle house is a type of fortified, or defensible, farmhouse peculiar to the Border country between England and Scotland.”  More information here

Moody looking tree.  

7. I’ve been invited to exhibit at Bellingham Heritage Centre 16th September to 31st October 2014.  I’m looking forward to this.

8. The Art Course.  Well the last few weeks have been stressful and rushed and I’m not very happy with my results.  It’s from feeling so washed out and “cotton wool headed”. But I have achieved!  Who hoo!  Here are the first semester paintings.  I’m learning a lot.

9. The RHS gardening course is on hold……back to studies soon.

10. Well, what else?  Some lovely times and walks with a much less stressed DH.

Alnmouth Beach

The Temple Dancer

 

This weeks mixed media is very different to previous offerings.

When I started I didn’t think I was going to like it but actually I love it, especially the red rose as an accent.
Who would have thought that tearing up bits of paper could be such fun?

You might be wondering where the textiles are?  
They will be back next week, sometimes you need to explore different media and different avenues to gain a deeper insight  into your own working practise.

Pushing the edges of my comfort zone is liberating, especially working in a  sketchbook and not on a canvas - these are not works for display or sale, just for me.
Now that makes a wonderful change.