Today is a grey day here in Benet so intend to catch up with some more sewing. Yesterday I was on a roll and finished several pieces including my wall hanging. I have enjoyed making the Jeans Bag and have added the photo to show you all, It is really cute, I used age four years old jeans and lined and embellished them with a very pretty red fabric I had in my stash. I am really pleased with the finished project, Hang in Emily the bag might be heading your way!!!!

New York Beauty Quilt

Hi Everybody,
Well at last I have finished my New York Beauty Wall Hanging and here it is to show you all, My friend Linda in Oregon USA. gave me the pattern about three years ago and I started it shortly after, but it is easier to do by hand and that is not my best method, so I only stitched it at my Pathwork Group here in Benet, hence the time taken to finish it. But today is now the beginning of a new piece of patchwork. Very exciting!!!!

Butterflies

Hello, Well I have now learnt how to place my favourite picture on the top of my Blog. It's all such a learning curve, but I get there in the end. This is a butterfly I photographed in Pennslyvania last year and it represents my life as I always flit from one project to another, having many things on the go at once.

This was the third projhect we worked on an embroidered and embellished casket, made using lots of metal, wiremesh and transfoils, I found the metal hard to stitch into and broke many needles, then I found my metal was too thick, but thats the life so now need to source some thinner metal and try again, but it all worked out well in the end and I am very pleased with my work, am definitely improving in my free machining skills thanks to Annique. So next week its back to the Maggie Grey workshops and I need to work on my Altered Book, so more pictures to follow. Bientot

Last week my friend Annique came to stay for five whole days, we stitched and painted and burned fabrics all week, we started the week with some transfoil work and made book covers, so here is my attempt, the next project was to make a shrine, this proved quite difficult but here is my attempt, somehow it has appeared above the book cover, but thats technology for you.

I belong to a group called Saving Graces , there are just four of us and we decided to do the Maggie Grey workshops together sharing our experiences We held a day at Thelma's house and she set us homework for the next meeting, giving us a white artboard to work on. This is my homework piece.

The third workshop was to use the same methods as previously but to construct a 3d piece of work using an old book as a backing and other techniques described in the main book, I really enjoyed constructing this piece and chose colours I would not normally use. Enjoy