winter virus

darn on my French fabric, bough from a Brocante

I'm currently laid low with a hideous virus which means I haven't much energy, let alone creative energy.Managed to do a couple of paper collages today and keep up my daily drawing, but apart from that ,not doing much at all,including eating.Meanwhile,look at this wonderful cloth.

Back to rainy U.K

 

I've  been experimenting with felt lace techniques whilst in France.Very unusually,the weather has been around freezing some of the time and we even had snow, but the studio was cosy,so had time to do quite a lot of work.When I have sorted the technique to my satisfaction,I'll teach it to others, but currently I'm enjoying trying out different methods.

Also making large flowers (this one balanced on the top of a felt/silk vessel) as I'm teaching a workshop at the Country Living Spring Fiar on March 26th.Don't usually do flowers etc but really enjoyed this ,so maybe I'll go into production!!

Back to rainy U.K

off to work over the channel again

Off to work in my lovely peaceful studio in France,but without the usual sunshine-expecting snow there too tomorrow!Can't get away from it!! Should be a good chance to prepare for our exhibition at the Washington gallery-more of that later.

exciting card swop

I've taken part in a card swop via Lawendula's blogspot (type Woven Letters into Google) and have just opened my parcel this morning, from my partner in the swop.These lovely little drawings are by a 20s/30s Southern Belle and tell a complicated story ,which I'm looking forward to including in an altered book.This will be something quite different for me and just the challenge needed for the new year,It's good to be pushed into a situation which is different -hope my parcel has ythe same effect on my opposite number!The second image shows more of the swap,all equally as inspiring.It's like peering into someone elses life!

Card swop

climate change exhibits.

These are the finished pieces for the International Feltmakers exhibition, which starts its progress through Europe at the textile museum in Prato,Italy.My pieces are based on Flood Famine and Freeze. In view of recent weather and the disaster in Haiti, I could have used all kinds of other images for the digital part of the felt, but as it was,I used the flood in Gloucestershire, which filled our ground floor up to work top level.The freeze element came from research into the Little Ice Age and there are ,sadly ,always imges of famine from somewhere in the world.All this leads up to the horrible cliche that 'nothing changes'.