Sew2Speak

While I am slaving away at my piece for the Freedom exhibition at the Needle Forge Museum in Redditch later this year, my system administrator has been slaving over his computer to give my website a new look.

So here it is launched. I like the new clean lines. I hope you all do too. I’ve done [...]

Well the trip to the UK to take part in the master class with Alice Kettle has made another small hole in my purse. Why is it that all the bits and pieces for your sewing machine seem to cost an arm and a leg? I guess because they have a captive market. Especially with the [...]

23rd June 1923 – 10th November 2008
In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been again, we have had another death in the family. Sqeze’s Mum died in her sleep on November 10th. She had only been poorly for a few days beforehand so we weren’t really prepared for her death.

One of the defining characteristics of Mavis [...]

I went into the haberdasher’s in Frankfurt after work today to buy thread ready for the thread painting on Dad’s portrait. I took little snippets of all the different fabrics with me. It would appear I used (at least) 33 different fabrics in the portrait. I would have guessed at a lower number than that if [...]

I found this amazing project via Helen’s Down the Well blog.

You must go take a look!

And make a stopover at Helen’s blog. Also a [...]

Hello readers – I’m back. If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been the answer is near Valencia, Spain. We’ve just got back from 2 weeks holiday there. We were really lucky – arrived in time for almost 2 weeks of great weather after the previous week of continuous rain. We had 24 hrs of rain before [...]

This morning I went over to the fabric shop in Bad Camberg where my quilting and patchwork got started for the second time a few years ago now. I needed to stock up on fabric to use in my portrait. I have some at home of course, including some that I dyed myself in Marjie’s [...]