My bear making exploits continue. This Belle. She has a guilty secret which is that her body is not made of old patchwork too tatty to do anything with other to be cut up. It is actually a printed, commercially produced quilt which I bought for a fiver in a charity shop. Now, I, in […]
A couple of weeks ago I had a small, experimental, try-out stand at a tone-y sort of textile fair to promote my workshops at Pomegranate Studio. I am still not sure if it generated any business, but it was a good source of feedback. I was advertising my Blinged-up Boro workshop and took along a […]
A couple of weeks ago I went to my mother’s quilting group’s exhibition in Gotham, Notts. This is Goat-ham not Gotham, home of Batman. It’s got its own Wise Men of Gotham lore in which the inhabitants acted like fools to stop a royal visit which would have meant opening up the road to the […]
This is one of those pieces that I am making but have no idea why. I am just really enjoying stitching together these tiny scraps leftover from the leftovers of leftovers. I think after this I might finally have to throw the scraps away. I think it has the spirit of boro: never wasting anything, […]
Making stuff is great, and making samples just try out a technique is also satisfying, but there is often the question of what to do with them afterwards. I was walking past a house in my neighbourhood which had a pile of oddments of bits of pine from some home improvement job. They were left […]
This is not the best picture in the world, but it gives an idea of my latest boro-inspired experiment. I used a convenient pomeranian dog to prop it up against for the photograph and I don’t think it really worked. This piece, which is about the size of an A4 piece of paper, is made […]
I haven’t posted much recently because I am so busy trying to get my business ideas off the ground or preparing to give talks to groups. I really don’t want this blog to turn into one of those thinly disguised sales pitches, so I am trying to avoid writing too much about upcoming events and […]
Well, it was a damp, warm, dizzly day here today as the Medieval Historian and I made our way to Nailsworth in Gloucestershire to have a look at the the Five Valley Quilters’ exhibition. We went through some lovely English countryside of the type you would want for one of those Victorian costume specials about […]
One of my morning rituals is to listen in In Our Time on Thursdays on BBC radio 4. I start out full of optimism that I will understand the science-y ones, but really I prefer the history and culture subjects. Last week it was about the collection of Welsh folk stories, The Mabinogion. I knew a […]
Well, the polythene bags for my June marketing campaign have arrived. Sorry to trouble you with this very unglamorous photo.
