Easter Stitching

Happy Easter, I hope you are enjoying your Easter break.
We have just finished our roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with a nice glass of wine.
It's still bright and sunny outside although a little cold.

Last week has been very busy and I have been looking forward to having time to catch up with general jobs at home, including a major tidy up in the garden which has been some what neglected!

On Thursday I attended the preview of the 2010 Open exhibition at The Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry where my 'Abbey Fields' embroidery is on show.
I will post some pictures soon, as we are visiting it again tomorrow, to take pictures of the gallery.
If you can visit I need your votes!
They have a peoples choice award and the work with the most votes, will be fortunate to win an exhibition of their work at this prestigious gallery.
This would be a dream come true, if I were lucky enough to win, although the chances are slim, as there are seventy excellent art works to choose from.

I have added a few more wooden dolls to my collection, one I found in a charity shop.
I'm sure my obsession for them stems from the comfort they give me in bringing back memories of my childhood.

More stitching to share with you, I'm still working on the large piece and also a few more brooches.

I'm in the process of making a brooch for a blog give away this week so more to follow soon.

Fabric Art

A new brooch or small picture I made today.
It's made entirely from recycled fabrics an old blanket, wool coat, vintage fabrics and threads.
I am obsessed at turning discarded textiles into, I hope, something beautiful.
Trouble is I'm living amongst piles of fabrics!

Exhibitions & Cotton Reels

Hello,
I had some exciting new this week, when I found out that one of my embroideries has been selected for the 2010 Open exhibition, at The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry
I did enter my larger piece which was not selected but luckily this one above of Abbey Fields, a park near where I live was chosen.

The opening night is on April 1st and the exhibition ends June 13th.

Today I have been at The Sewing For Pleasure Show at the NEC, I had a great time and saw so many people I knew.
Hello to Judy a fellow stitching friend, who has not got a blog yet, but should have one!
If you are going to the show, say hello to Kathy on the Embroiderers Guild magazine stand, who is very kindly displaying my work again.
There was so many inspiring textile works on display, including a display of work from the book, Inspired to Stitch by Diana Springall.
I loved looking at the Oscar winning costumes from the film 'The Duchess' starring Keira Knightly and Ralph Fiennes.






I have many old wooden cotton reels as I can't bare to throw them away.
I know I'm a bit strange but my life revolves around threads, so I have painted my own landscape on one of them, I think I may need to get some smaller brushes!

Spring Trees

Hello,

I have a few more tree fabric brooches to share with you.

The yellow tree I made for my Mum for Mothers day and the pink blossom one to add to etsy.

I found a lovely vintage fabric for the blossom.

Last week I was contacted by the organizer of a Mediaeval fair, which will celebrate the 800th birthday of Holy Trinity Church ( Shakespeare's church) in Stratford Upon Avon, details you will find here http://www.stratford-upon-avon.org/2010.html .

I have been asked to demonstrate felting and to sell my embroidery brooches, smaller pictures and cards.

It's not until June 12th, so I will let you know more about it nearer the time.

The event is free and should be a wonderful day out.

Hope you enjoy the weekend.x

A Kaylacoo World

Another world to escape to, just made from wool, fabric and threads.

A Cornish Landscape

I spent most of Sunday stitching and completely neglected the house work!

You may remember the sketch I did in Cornwall on holiday near Bude, you can see it HERE.

This view is between Widemouth bay and Bude along the coastal road, on a very blowy day with the sun streaming out between the clouds.

I decided to work on a larger scale again, so this is working progress and there will be a lot more stitching to come.

The Sewing For Pleasure Show is on at the NEC Birmingham see Here, from the 25th to the 28th March.

I will be going on the Thursday and my work will be on display again on the Embroiderers Guild Stitch magazine stand.

I'm looking forward to seeing all the displays and demonstrations and of course the opportunity to purchase more threads!

Bye for now.x

Floral Trees

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Hi

Yesterday all sorts of mad things went on in my twitter account.

I had clicked on a link in my direct messages from a trusted flickr friend saying check this blog out it has your work, so I did!

Little did I know that it was a spam email which led you to an empty blog, she had done the same, which activated the link to all her contacts and when I clicked on the link it sent spam email to many of mine!

So please be aware, luckily it was easily fixed by changing a password but what a pain and I'm so sorry if you had all this rubbish spam in your inbox.

I have been making a few floral trees this week, using tiny pieces of fabric, "waste not want not" as they say!