fabric friday- hand printed fabric

Some more fabric prints from last week!

Simple Stylized Landscape I

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you will have already seen some glimpses of this back in the summer. I now have the time to share it here.

Big sky with just a few pieced elements...

 ...and lots and lots of quilting!!
I enjoyed the simplicity of its design and construction. Three more to come so stay tuned!

fabric friday- hand printed fabric

I pulled my Gelli Arts Plate yesterday and had a bit of a play. As you can see from the shadows in my photos it was a sunny day, nice enough to say out in my shed all morning :D

I usually paint onto white cotton but having recently purchased Lynn Krawczyk's Intentional Printing*, I have followed her example and painted onto coloured cotton.

Although I have done lots of printing on fabric before these pieces are definitely influenced by Lynn's work. I have a couple of ideas of what to do with these. Stay tuned to see what I come up with.

*I bought this book on my Kindle. 

Anyone else find they are buying even more art/quilting books now that they can be purchased electronically, for a lot less than for the physical book? I know having a book in your hands is much better but it is so easy and instantaneous (and nobody has to know ;)

fabric friday hand printed fabric

Some thing a bit different today. This is fabric prepared for my last Journal Quilt (December) done as part of a challenge for members of the Contemporary Quilt arm of the Quilters Guild of the British Isles. The other eleven months can be seen here.

fabric friday and some updates

Today I am busy putting together some fabric kits for a workshop that I am teaching at Busy Bees tomorrow, so it's a Fabric Friday with a bit of a difference today.

I know that things have been a bit quiet here as I have had a busy few months of teaching, which is wonderful, but it does take it's toll on the ol' blogging.

I do have lots of ideas swirling around and I am looking forward to some down time so that these ideas can sort themselves out and hopefully manifest themselves into some pleasing and interesting posts. 

I plan to resume my Alternative Trip Around the Block series. Remember that? Plus a few tutorials that I hope you will like.

I haven't been totally idle as I have been producing my Journal Quilts for the Contemporary Group, making some small stitched pieces and I have been critiquing my working practices when trying to produce an Art Quilt.

Workshop Round up

I like to give a shout out to the groups that have been so good to invite me to teach/talk to them recently.

Here is a round up of the latest.

At Cromwell Quilters in Cambridgeshire the ladies decided to make up some of my kits. 

More Strippy Landscapes from Cardiff Quilters.

  

And even more from Duffryn Quilters.

       

The ladies of Romsey Quilters opted for my Stitching showcase workshop.

Many Thanks to all for the warm and friendly welcome.

Stylized Landscapes IV

For the final piece in this series I wanted to have a bit of fun. I decided to have a go at making a larger version of this piece which began life as a workshop sample.

I like playing with strips.

I like lots of close straight line stitching.

Job done!