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Beautiful flowers - in fabric

2/11/2015

Nesting flower bowls - they just keep getting more beautiful

Flower Power!

It has been flower power all the way form me this past week.

It started on Wednesday with the ladies from the Wiltshire Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Quilters in Steeple Ashton

As you can see - everyone was hard at work.

Then on Saturday and Sunday I was at Midsomer Quilting - creating even more fabulous flowers. I think we made enough to fill a whole florists, and not only that - we can all smile and know that the future of quilting is going to continue. The age range of the people at the workshops this week spanned from age 9 to ............... well, more than 21!

On Saturday poppies were very popular, but a sunflower, a little waterlily and a poinsettia also snuck in.

Then on Sunday waterlilies stole the show... with another sunflower, and a few poppies in the mix.

I think you will agree - they all look amazing. What I love the most is that no two bowls look the same. There are so many ways they can be varied; just by changing the colour from yellow to white - a sunflower can be transformed into a daisy. By changing the thread colour the visual texture alters the flower; smoothly stitched free motion lines make a gentle, delicate flower, whereas bold embroidery stitches make for a vibrant, flashy bloom. There is lots of room to experiment and try new ideas.

If you would like more information on this and other workshops, please click here

I hope you have enjoyed seeing the fun we all had this week.
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A house full of flowers

31/8/2015

Well now that summer seems to be well and truly over I decided it was time to get on with the flowers. I spent the week transforming my big heap of colourful fabric into a lovely collection of flowers and now have a house full!

I made some old favourites and added a new flower to the collection. I hope you like them!

These flower bowls are such fun to make and I get a huge amount of pleasure from turning a flat piece of fabric into a beautifully shaped flower. For this new 'crop' of flowers I have mixed hand dyed fabrics with commercial prints, giving a slightly different look from the originals, and because each of the flowers is reversible there are lots of combinations when it comes to displaying them - so many, in fact, I lost track when I was photographing them.
For example, for the waterlily there are 5 bowls which can each be turned inside out - giving 15 combinations. Perfect for those who find it hard to make up their mind (like me!)

Over the next few months I will be teaching one day workshops where you can learn how to make these bowls - or better still, how you can design and create your own bowls - in pretty much any shape you can imagine.

Flower bowl workshop brochure. Click for more details

Midsomer Quilting Saturday 31st October 2015
Midsomer Quilting Sunday 1st November 2015
Pauline's Patchwork Saturday 9th July 2016
Blackmore Vale Embroiderers Guild 5th November 2016

Thanks for reading!

Dismaland? Not here!

24/8/2015

COLOUR FEST

So this is what has been keeping me busy this week!

I took advantage of a beautiful sunny day and set up camp in the garden; and this is what I ended up with..... 10 metres of jewel-coloured gorgeousness.

Can you guess what it is all for?

sunflowers

poinsettias

poppies

blue waterlily

yep! .... the nesting flower bowls!

Over the next few months I will be teaching how to make these beautiful flower bowls at several workshops - 2 at Midsomer Quilting and a few for some quilting and embroidery groups. In preparation I have been creating the patterns for each set of bowls. Now I am testing them to make sure everything works out perfectly. Here is a sneak preview of some of the bowls under construction.

Blue waterlily

Purple poppy

Vibrant sunflower

I just love making these bowls - they are so bright and cheerful - you can't help but smile as you stitch!

For more information about the different flower bowls click here.

For the brochure on the flower bowl workshop, click here.

Thanks for reading.

Have you ever wondered about trying the fun of dyeing your own fabric?

It isn't difficult and you don't need a lot of fancy equipment...

... most of it will be in your recycling box.

And it needn't be expensive either. You can buy all the chemicals you need to get started for £14 on Amazon (free delivery too, it is a really good deal).
http://goo.gl/py2vhK

Got the dye and not sure what to do with it? No worries. You can find a really straightforward explanation of the 'how to' of dyeing in my book, Quilting Originals'.

I have used lots of photographs to show you exactly what to do and clearly explain several different methods so that you can explore a variety of different results using the same dyes.

My book is available directly from me £18.95 or from Amazon uk for £24.95. You can see a preview of it here.

What the heck is Dismaland? Click here.

Beautiful flowers - in fabric

Nesting flower bowls - they just keep getting more beautiful

A house full of flowers

Dismaland? Not here!

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