Sew2Speak

Well no-one came up with any ideas as to what my wall hanging was going to be, so here is another big clue.

The full size cartoon for the wall hanging is rather daunting and is up on my design wall looking at me accusingly. Today I decided that avoiding it was not going to [...]

Last weekend was gorgeous weather – too good to spend in the studio. I did some gardening instead and then sat out and surveyed my efforts. It seemed like a good time to do some hand sewing, so I made a start on the next activity for the C&Gs course, which was to make a [...]

Here is another piece of my coursework for C&Gs. I had to produce a patchwork block using inserts. My first thoughts were along the lines of flowers, which is what most people seem to do. But then I decided to try to interpret a traditional block using inserts. When I made my sampler from a [...]

I’m a bit concerned. I sent the photos of my proof of concept to my tutor and this was her reply:
This looks fine, it will work, you just need to be very, very accurate.

Well I’m done now and I’ve sent off the photos to get her feedback. I hope she is going to be satisfied. [...]

After trying out some traditional sashiko designs on paper I came to the conclusion something else was needed. A continuous design was going to cause untold headaches with the construction, so I turned my thoughts to a four petalled flower. From there my thoughts roamed to arabic tiling and mosaics, but that was getting more [...]

My next assignment for an assessment item is to make an accessory. I’ve decided to make a folding purse. It will be continuing my theme of folding. The idea came to me as I looked at the examples in the course notes. One of them reminded me of a little folding coin purse that Sqeze [...]