Workroom

This is the space I work in, taken from the door. It's rather full, so I have to keep it fairly tidy otherwise it's a pain. When I took this photo the sun was very bright and the sky was blue, that's why I have the organza nets to pull across - I can't see otherwise.

I also suffer from 'piles' though you can't see most of them. If I put things away I forget about them, so I have to see things as a reminder.

If I climb on the desk and look out of the window to the left, I have a lovely view over fields and rescue centre for horses.

To call it a studio sounds abit posh for me, it's not big enough for a studio. How big is a studio?

Quilting, rubbish, tulips

Thought I'd better show some texties. This is part of a piece layered and tacked ready for quilting.
I use fabrics from lots of sources. The backing for this piece is part of a calico duvet cover from that well known Swedish store. It's not the best quality calico but its light weight and when washed it's really soft and good to stitch on. It works well for what I want it to do.

I used a sticky backed plastic stencil to quilt around. Unfortunately, when I removed the stencil some sticky was left on the fabric. When I quilted over the area it wouldn't stitch properly. It kept missing stitches. However it doesn't matter as the area will be covered.
This is the rubbish I picked up from the front of my house after the rubbish had been collected. Mostly plastic bags that had been put out full of paper for the 'Paper back' recycling scheme. the men hadn't secured the bags to be left for the residents to re-use.
A picture to make me smile, the tulips from last Sunday. Tulips seem to last a lot longer these days. They've opened up more, the insides are interesting.

Bye!

Nice pics - tulips, frost, new neighbours

Just a quickie!

Pretty pink tulips.

Frosty daffodils.
Frosty metal.
Frosty brambles.
Fianlly, our new neighbours, rescue ponies.
See Ya!

More from Hodsock

More images from Hodsock Priory..........

This last one was taken on the way into Mansfield, going home.

Bye!

Snowdrops

Hello again. It's been a long time since my last post. We've had problems with the wireless router. Hopefully it's all sorted now.
Went to Hodsock Priory to see the snowdrops. We haven't been for a few years but we weren't disappointed. Just a few photos to show you how lovely it was. The pics are bleached out because it was a fantastically bright day.

Snowdrops under the trees in the woods.

Small cyclamen, a real treat. Brilliant colour in February.
This was by the pond, don't know what it is but I love it!
A rather pretty snowdrop.I can't add any more photos blogger won't let me or I haven't figured it out yet! I'll do more later.

I am doing some textiles but I can't show you yet.

Happy New Year; vermicelli; dragon

Happy New Year!

Have been unable to post due to being disconnected from the internet repeatedly. However my other half seems to have solved it.
Anyway, I have actually managed to do some textiles. I'd got some shirt weight dress fabric with a very broad navy blue on white print. I quilted each stripe with white thread then went over it all with blue Markal paint stick. Had to leave it to cure for 48 hours then put a layer of blue polyester organza on top and quilted each stripe again. I'd been reading about variations in vermicelli and decided this would be the quilting but an angular variation. It worked well so I made another piece.

For this piece I used the same fabric but with a narrower stripe. This picture shows the piece before its layer of organza and second layer of quilting.
I have a thing about these layers at the moment, but I must develop it and move on or leave it.
Went to see my Mum and Dad and wanted to take something to eat. I saw this fruit in the supermarket the other day. It's a 'dragon fruit' or pitahaya. It's the fruit of the Central and South American cactus. I was taken with the colour. Isn't it great! It had a sweet taste and a texture similar to a kiwi fruit. It wasn't unpleasant but wasn't particularly remarkable, just amazing to look at. Lots of vitamin C and fibre.
It's been good to read all my favourite blogs again. I felt very isolated when I couldn't read them.
Happy New Year again to everyone.

Last images of the year, Christmas

A beautiful sunset taken from my back door at about 7.45am on Christmas eve..... whilst.......

.....indoors I was starting to make trifles, one for my parents and one for us.

My mum stitched this for me for Christmas. I'm into fairies at

the moment and always into flowers.

Our lodger came to stay after Christmas and this is him opening his present.
Some actual stitching. I made this for a wedding anniversary card my Mum and Dad. It is on New Years Eve and will be their 52nd. I couldn't give it to them as I'm not well, so I emailed a picture of it to them. I'll take it in person when i'm better.
Have a happy and creative New Year :)

See you soon!