On 11/3/21 I wrote on Facebook…..
… Read the rest“the only “non-essential” shops I missed when they were closed (except for the lovely shops that sell my buttons and brooches, that is!) was the charity shops, which are now open woohoo! check out this beauty, size UK 22 , unlined, ripe for customisation. I have an inkling that this might be someone’s dream jacket, like the one in this blogpost…https://www.mcanaraks.com/textile-trail/
23/10/20
T’other day I hung one of my handmade scarves over a blouse, for want of a spare hanger, That looks good, I thought, and it gave me an idea to decorate the blouse in the same way I would make a scarf.
I selected some colours of selvedge that I could use and set them aside.… Read the rest
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12/10/20
This is my first blogpost since my website got updated and things look different, it looks much more plain, so I need to
add a photo here
and I need to make this paragraph quite long so that when you look at the main page for my blog the excert that it shows contains more than a single sentence.… Read the rest
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26/05/20
Here’s a card I sent for a swap on Swapbot, I’m doing one every month in 2020 on the theme of portraits.
It’a actually the other bit of the photo I used for last months, here they are back together again.… Read the rest
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10/02/20
Today is the the last week of my Made on Monday 2019 project, I have made 52 5×5 inch mixed media pieces, it’s taken me 56 weeks, but that’s not bad.… Read the rest
14/01/20
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I’m taking part in a collaborative textile art project in which 12 of us contribute to 12 cube templates which will eventually become 3D cubes. Last night I started on my second cube template, you can see the first one here.… Read the rest
07/01/20
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Someone in a Facebook group said “Have you heard of “Mail Me Some Art” ?” and I had not, but I have now.
They have a blog
I signed up for it and have joined in my first swap which is on the theme of “Ascemic Writing” which I knew little about, but learnt from this blogpost
I prepared an A4 sheet of paper by stencilling with acrylic paints, leaving it to dry and then rubbing over it with different coloured inks.… Read the rest
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17/12/19
I heard today that the postcard I sent to Australia has arrived safely after 2 weeks, always a relief because sending them naked is a bit risky, especially ones like this with loose-ish stitching on them.… Read the rest
In this post I’m going to do a round up of the various swaps I’ve recently been involved in. I’ve been having fun with Swapbot , you can read about it here. I took part in a swap on the theme of “Monochromatic Purple”
I sent this card on the theme “Whatever”
I sent this handmade notelette…
Here are some handmade postcards I received as swapbot swaps.… Read the rest
I am taking part in the Made on Monday project again, I did it once before in 2016, you can read all about it here It involves making a new piece of 5×5 inch art every week for a year, and posting it online on a Monday. You can read about the project, run by Kate Bridger here
The first time round I used fabric scraps from my ample scrap box, which never gets any less ample.… Read the rest
