Alongside my work with Flaky Snow Designs, I collaborate with Material Girls.
This is the teaching of patchwork and quilting and allied techniques in the
community. A former colleague and I started Material Girls when we were...
Yay - I passed the course and I'm both delighted + a little sad that the course
is over. I started the course with a rudimentary knowledge of hand embroidery -
mainly cross -stitch. So my...
Gentle autumnal tonal values on this quilt - despite the issues, it looks OK.I
create many quilts, some from patterns, some based on patterns and some which
just evolve. A quilt is - to me -...
If you think that there are many needle types for machine sewing - the range is
even more extensive for hand sewing!...
The mind map above was something I used a couple of years ago as part of a
textiles course. It made me realise this might be a useful tool for others....
This week will (hopefully) mark the completion of all twelve modules of a School
of Stitched Textiles course which I started two years ago. I am both glad and
sad to see this particular journey end. I...