Sarah Lawrence

Faux Batik Video Now On Youtube

Very Cold and Snowy

It has snowed most of this week .. but we have been furiously working on the on-line class/tutorial which has launched today. It will be accessible for the lifetime of the course .. I have had a few emails asking about this and if it is time sensitive (as I believe that some on-line classes are only available to download for a very short period of time). It is, the class is running for 2 months in total with part 2 starting on the 10th Feburary.
You can sign up here.

Flower Sticther Video Now On Youtube

I’ve just uploaded to Youtube a demonstration on how to use the Flower Stitcher which I mentioned in craftynotions.com’s January Newsletter.

Here it is!

Flower Stitcher @ craftynotions.com

Remember there is still time to book a place on the online class which starts on Sunday! Click here

Christmas and New Year

Hope everyone had the Christmas that you were all hoping for. The new year looms and my thoughts are turning to all the things I have planned for next year. Haven’t made any new years resolutions yet! But one of them maybe to blog a bit more often!

Went to see Avatar with family and it was utterly gob-smacking! Absolutely brilliant and we are hoping to go see it again fairly soon as there was so many fantastic visuals you couldn’t possibly take it all in one go.

Cold and Chilly

Where has the fog suddenly come from?On Thursday I travelled to the Milton Keynes Em. guild (had a lovely time and ate mince pies ) but the drive back home was pretty hairy as the fog pockets were unexpected….Then Friday evening it was like a Dickensian melodrama..swirling and almost masking out the street lamps! On this Sunday morning it is heavy moist air so much so that when spot went out he came back in with a covering of water droplets which he immediately transfered to me when he jumped on my lap and proceeded to shake himself like a dog which is strange as he’s a cat!!

Nearly There

We have been working tirelessly at the unit getting all the building work done and it is so close to being finished. I will shout yippee when it is done. Taken far longer than I thought it would.

Also I have done quite a lot of filming for the online classes and You Tube, they will be ready for viewing in the next week or so.

Here are a few pictures from the first workshop!

Back From London

The Goodies

Twiddley Bird

The Crunch

We had a really busy time at the Knitting and Stitching Show. Met loads of people, Hello to Viv, Gabi, Ermintrude… To name just a few. And good to catch up with Dale and Ian and his cold germs!

The talk I gave to the Danish Felters went well and it will be lovely to see them all again in July in Denmark. (Details later) Next year will be a very busy exhibiting year as I will have the pieces for Denmark and work for the exhibition here in Newark with The Group. I will post al the details soon.

The work on the new space is gaining pace and we are painting the floor in the warehouse bit . I have tables and chairs waiting for delivery. more importantly I have been to Ikea for storage and no I didn’t come back with everything but showed great restraint!

Too Exciting And Not Enough Time

Whats up? As my lovely son says when he arrives home. Well whats up is I’ve been beavering away creating new stamps some of which was launched at The Big Stamp Show in London and also at the Knitting and Stitching Show also at Ally Pally in the coming weeks. The Seedpod stamp is what I’ve used to do pieces in the pictures below. They are stamped, stitched, painted, gilded and they were a load of fun to make, until I realized I was getting obsessed and moved on to doing things with hot dots which is something else that we have brought in to the craftynotions family of goodies. Anyway the pictures are below. I’ve used Khadi zig zag as the backgrounds. The paper stitches beautifully and takes colours like a dream.

Hot Dots, ermm… One could get obsessed by these as well. These are the ones Kim T uses in her Hot Textiles book. On the pieces I have done I have used them to overlay previously foiled velvet to give a subtle on a colour sprayed background with a different coloured foils.

Just to let you know as well the Flower Stitchers are on their way and one final thing. The teaching studio that we have been waiting for will be ready very soon. I’m so excited and we’ll probably post the evolution of it from a shell to a creative hub.

OOoo… Too Exciting!

Hot Dots

Hot dots are ironed onto you fabric or mixed media surface and the you just apply foils  to create a shimmery shiny decorative surface .Stitch over it’ paint over it, or just love it as it is.

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Festival of Quilts Show 09

We have got back from the big quilt show at the NEC. It was really lovely to see old friends and new. The workshop ladies were lovely and made some amazing printed fabrics.One of the  Most amazing was meeting Zsophia who  along with some of her textile friends had my Silk book and were from Hungary.If you get to read this post ..I hope you all enjoy playing with the Rusting Powder .Also Denise from Luxemburg…I hope the ladies of your weekly have a creative time with the Rusty Stuff….

I never fail to be delighted at the way textiles can be a universal language.

I did learn alot from the Russian Quilters…with oohs and ahahs it is all you really need to communicate….but I just could not get my tongue around the Swedish for Vinegar…..let alone the Spanish……but there was a tremendous amount of giggling….