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Shibor Indigo Samples

At the weekend I went over to Rockland Allsaints to Marion Baker’s studio.

Here Marion and Sally Mills showed us lots of different Shibori techniques.

Once the Indigo vats were mixed, left to stand, we then dipped our fabrics.

We had a lovely day with lunch in the garden.

We had to leave our samples wrapped up for a few days to cure

and these are mine, unwrapped, washed and drying on the line.

I am really pleased with the results.

Thank you so much,

Marion and Sally so much for a lovely workshop.

See more pictures of the day and what I have been doing since

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Me at The Knngs Lynn Museum

The Kings Lynn Embroiderers Guild has an Exhibition,

on until the 22nd of August, at The Kings Lynn Museum and this is me

demonstrating needlefelting with an embellisher machine at the Exhibition.

This photograph was taken by Alan Miller a photographer for The Kings Lynn News.

Thank you to Alan and the Editor for such a nice article.

See more of what is going on at Quilters Cottage this week at

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Today I finished the quillo for the pattern instructions for download which will be available soon.  

I am also teaching a quillo course in the Autumn, so will be using this quillo as a demo.

I love the colours of this ‘quilt that folds into a cushion’.

That is why it is called a ‘Quillo’. 

I have used my own dyed fabrics and purchased materials.

To see other quillos double click on the pages on the right

To see how this was made and other events that are happening at

Quilters Cottage Studio visit

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The new printing press has arrived @The Gallery.

Today I set the press up  ready for printing and I had fun making a collagraph.

 I like to make the collagraph plates as good as the prints.

I will be teaching a printing course called ‘Printing Little Gems’,

in September @ The Gallery.

See more of my printing and daily work on my blog

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Blue Crazywork Cushion

I have enjoyed making alot of Crazywork Quilting recently.

This cushion is going to be one of the exhibits in

The Kings Lynn Embroidery Guild Exhibition

at The Town Museum in Kings Lynn.

See more of my textiles and exhibition work on the pages on the right

 also news and how my work is made on my Blog

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Magnum TV AD

Today I got the chance to star in the lastest  ‘Magnum’ ice cream commercial.

I play the ‘cousin’ and help the couple break into the vault!

I have posted it on my Facebook profile page.

Jenn also starred in one too!

We had fun today with technology.

See more of what goes on at Quilters Cottage at

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See mine and Linda Turners visit to Norfolk’s Open Studios,

We had a inspirational day

 and thank the organisors and the artists

for making it such an eventful time. 

Visit our ’studio Crawl’, on my blogsite

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Purple Sketchbook

I have been experimenting with the different textures and fabrics

 which I can use with the Embellisher Machine.

Here I have used colours which blend with ‘purple’.

The sketchbookwill be on sale @ The Gallery Dereham

www.thegallerydereham.co.uk

See how it was made on my blog

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Clematis Arch

I just had to take this photograph of the clematis arch in the Monk’s Garden

here at Quilters Cottage.

The flowers are the size of side plates.

See more of the clematis arches

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Watton Holiday Workshop

In my role as a Norfolk Community Artist I help run art events during the holidays.

Yesterday I was at Watton Junior School.

The theme of the drop in workshop was

‘Holiday in a Box’

The children got to make their box,paint,decorate it and put dreams

and ideas of holidays they would like to go on in the future.

Lots of paint,glitter,laughter and food!

Here you can see they really enjoyed what they had made.

See more on

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