I was working on my tea cosy this afternoon. I have more or less finished both sides to it now. I am making a pieced background for the sea and the wave and am appliquéing the white horses onto this. I am using the technique of fabric collage, that I learnt at Quilt University in a class with Marilyn Belford, where I made my Dad’s portrait. That first piece took me ages. I used the same technique again on part of my submission for the Charles Henry Foyle Award.
I realised this afternoon that I was doing it on the fly. I only have my sketches, but I now know how to go from there to making the collage with fabric, without going through all the intermediary design stages. I just winged it. It was nice to see that I have left the beginner stage now with that technique 
Not perfect yet but getting there!