Category: textiles
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Scrap Patchwork Online Workshop
New creative workshop with Ruth Singer Do you have a collection of tiny, precious fabric scraps just waiting to find the right project? I created this technique to use up some of the very tiniest pieces of hand-dyed or antique fabrics. It is inspired by Victorian crazy patchwork but it’s much less busy. I use…
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Developing a body of work
Creating a consistent body of work as a textile artist is really hard. I’ve been through it and now I want to share that process and learning through my Maker Membership.
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Gentle Goal Setting For Myself – part one
What I have learned from a wholistic creative practice review Late last year I started playing around in my journal with reviewing my year to date. I have read so much about reviewing and explored plenty of thoughtful analysis monthly, quarterly and annually, but never had it seemed so important as in 2020, the year…
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Precious Objects Sampler Workshop
Find a purpose for all those tiny treasures and special fabrics you love to collect. Make a Precious Objects Sampler in this weekend online workshop with textile artist Ruth Singer
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Gentle Goal Setting
Gentle Goal Setting is a workshop allowing you to look back at what you have learned from 2021 and set some realistic and gentle goals for 2021.
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Digital Print on Textile
My artist statement says that I prefer to use old cloth in my work, enjoying the history embedded within the textile, and I have tried throughout my 15 years of practice to use sustainable textile techniques. It isn’t the whole story as I do also use digital print on new fabrics for specific projects. I…
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Trapunto Quilting Research
My love of corded and stuffed quilting runs very deep. I first taught myself the technique about 15 years ago after seeing it used in 1930s couture garments at the V&A when I worked there. I later discovered the Tristan Quilt, a 14th century trapunto quilt, which is in the V&A but it wasn’t on…
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Creative Colouring – Patchwork Patterns book
I’ve made a colouring book! I created a sort-of colouring book for my library commission earlier this year, and really loved doing it. It reminded me that I wanted to make a patchwork pattern colouring book a few years ago, but never had the time. I’ve made the time and now it’s ready. My book…
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Antiphony exhibition and talk
I’m pleased to be taking part in the Leicester Print Workshop members exhibition this year. I am working in collaboration with Gillian McFarland to produce a changing artwork installation which will develop from week to week as we share ideas, develop and pass things to and fro and create new pieces inspired by two found…
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Emotional Repair Exhibition
I am currently working on a new exhibition at Gawthorpe Hall Textile Collection which is in an amazing National Trust building in Lancashire. The textiles there are a private collection assembled by Rachel Kay Shuttleworth (1886- 1967) who lived in the house and opened it up to share her collections and her knowledge. I…
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