Art2Inspire

Orange Pumpkin Bowl

October has been a very mixed month of creativity,

I feel so lucky to be able to have a creative life as my career and

it is working out so well. It is hard work but in a very different way.

See some of what I have been doing by visiting some of the post which are on my

daily blog site at Quilters Cottage.

Enjoy a little taster by visiting the posts,

from a Bag making workshop at Weeting Village Hall,

See post HERE

Meetings at Alveva Quilters, a talk by Yvonne Brown,

HERE

Christmas  and other projects made by my Students

HERE

Felt Making at The Embroidery Guild

HERE

Textile Painting

HERE

A visit to Jimmy’s Farm

HERE

I am creating different types of cards with the different classes and

practice pieces.

See them on my

card site

HERE

I have been busy collecting videos from You tube

and making my own videos in the studio

to illustrate the films I have been watching and items I am making too,

Visit my Tech Site

HERE

There has been so much it has been hard to select these few.

If you want to see more visit my portfolio pages on the right

of this post or go to Quilters Cottage and keep scrolling down

onto older posts.

www.quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.com

I always love September and the start back to new things.

i am now teaching Patchwork and Quilting at Knit Wits in

Dereham, every Thursday, one Wednesday evening and

one Monday a month.

I have throughly enjoyed it so far and Fiona and Bill

have worked so hard in getting the fabric department and

classroom ready.

See more of the Sampler Quilt

HERE

September has started with Strips and the colour Purple

as the inspiration,

to get people started patchwork.

See my ‘Purple Patchwork Items’,

such as sketchbook covers and bags,

HERE

I am still teaching ‘Mixed Media Textiles’ on a Tuesday

at the Gallery and have lots more techniques

booked for this year.

I also made a video on how I make one of my

sketchbook pages

HERE

I have also become a Region 9 Committee Member.

I am now responsible for the Region 9 web page on

The Quilters Guild Website, so if you have any news

you think is appropriate please contact me.

See our Committee day with photos of the Region 9

Banner,

HERE

There is still some more of September to go and I will post more

but in the mean time go to my daily art updates on my blog

www.quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.com

Quilts for Chernobyl

July has been a busy creative month with Exhibitions, farm and school visits.

Making quilts,cards and felt, among alot of other creations.

The Gallery has been as busy as ever and I am gearing up for

new classes to begin in September.

There is still a week to go with me preparing for a

felting demonstration on the 31st of July at

The Alpaca Farm.

Also teaching @The Gallery and a teaching day in my Studio,

plus group meetings, the last before the Summer Break.

See all these posts on my blog and much much

more of my day to day art on my blog

www.quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.com

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

www.quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.com  

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

www.quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.com

Hungry Caterpilla

This is one of the artworks I use as a demonstration piece for a children’s art workshop I am giving next week as a Norfolk Community Artist.  The Hungry caterpilla is one of my favourite childrens stories that I used to read to Jenn and at School.

The Hungry Caterpilla is cut out of a napkin and stuck onto card before applying it to the background.

The flowers move and the Ladybird moves up and down her leaf.

See more of  how the workshop went and the results from the artists of the future

www.quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.com  

Scissor Cases

Today we had an Alveva Quilters workshop with Pat. She showed us how to make  a Sewing Tidy and Scissor Case. It was a wonderful day.

Thank you Pat! and everyone who made it such a lovely day.

See other photographs of our day on

 www.quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.com