Saturday, 25 June 2016

Bucks open Studios

Oh dear it has been such a long time since I have written on my blog. But I do have valid reasons !!!
Anyway I have a studio at Westbury Arts Centre in Milton Keynes and am taking part in Bucks Open Studios - great fun and meet lots of  new people and seen so many 'old' friends.
Here are a few pics and I will try to write on here much more often.
         My Canine Professors !!! with the special cloth treatment.

       Stitched ear rings

 Cats needing homes

          Oh la la girl !

 Little country kids

           My studio.
Come along and see me for my last Sunday tomorrow.
xxxxx

Thursday, 28 August 2014

Liberty Open Day


StitchyWooWoo (aka Sally = Me) has been invited to pitch at the Liberty Open Day on Saturday. I will be taking along some of my ReFashioned Art Jackets for the panel to consider stocking in the world famous London Store.
Its very exciting and a bit scary. Three minutes to sell my hard work , to convince them they need my jackets. I am offering them some exciting proposals as well - innovative business ideas that might be good for them and for me !! Can't say too much at this point.
Over the summer I have sold so many Re Fashioned garments.   The Selvedge show in Bath and Painswick Art Couture Show  had so many lovely customers who went home very pleased with some of my creations.
Will let you know what happens. 
xxxxx


Thursday, 8 May 2014

Selvedge Fashion Fair

Oh I know, its been ages...... since I last blogged. I should have lots to say as so much has happened in the past months - all mostly good or even great !!!.
Still am very busy at the moment, so just a very quick note to let you all know that I will be at the Selvedge Fashion Fair in The Octagon in Bath on Saturday 10th May.  I have lots of new unique Art Jackets and some really stunning Beatrice jackets for  Summer wear. Come along and see me and Trev and my StitchyWooWoo stand.

Tuesday, 10 September 2013

SAQA auction

Studio Art Quilts Association of which I am a member is an American organisation that promotes art quilts. Many great quilt artists are involved and lots of exhibitions are put on to expose quilts to the world.
Over the next few weeks they are having an auction to raise funds. Members were asked to create a small square to donate to the auction. Mine is for sale this week.
Take a look at the website and see some amazing small works of art in quilt form.
www.saqa.com

This piece is titled Art of Illunimation - roll on the floor laughing.
I admire the work of old illuminated manuscripts, the work involved in created the lettering and decoration. I wanted to create this in fabric but with a contemporary twist. I looked at how modern text is used in the form phone and email text - using abbreviations. I decided to mix this with the decoartion . As you will see in the work the text represents this.


Lots of tiny pieces of applied fabrics. Took ages to work but I feel I have captured the look of old book pages. The auction is like a Dutch auction and takes the form of getting less each day, so you could get a wonderful bargain if you are quick.
Several other pieces that I created in this series,although much bigger works are shown below.
This one shows an artist at work instead of a pen and book he has a mobile phone and computor on his work table.
Again lots of text with hidden meanings.
This other piece is in the same style.
For Your Information and In My Humble Opinion is all about linking the very old with the very modern !
Each motif is made of of hundreds of small pieces taken from printed commerical fabrics. Each quilts comprises of thousands of pieces all applied down on to background fabrics. All are free motion quilted.
Enjoy ! and happy bidding at the auction.






Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Abstract Art



I had a great day on Monday with the Weedon Bec Creative Textiles group. We had a play day with acrylic paints and papers to create abstract pieces for inspiration for fabric work, quilting and embroidery. Loosely based on summer garden images I managed to create some very Monet water lily pieces.  Now just got to turn them into textile pieces !
Maybe I will use some of my ice dyed fabrics and fragments then chiffons to overlay. It might just work - I'll show you once I've had a go.

Sunday, 12 May 2013

New Blog Little Scrap of Cloth

Come on over to my brand new blog Little Scrap of Cloth.
A daily dose of textiles - my textile work and some interesting other bits of material too.