Stitching Sketches

It's been a week of rain here which has meant that my plans for taking the children to the park and me sketching didn't happen.

I have had that nagging feeling that I should have been doing jobs around the house, but I didn't seem to get anything done.

My stitching mess is over flowing and the house is a tip, well the children have been stuck in a lot due to the poor weather!

Here is a sketch I did last week when the sun came out for a few minutes!

I decided I wanted to work on a few larger stitched pieces.

The first, my stitching echoing as much as possible the sketches I made of the over grown path.

The other, working from a painting in my sketch book of my holiday last year in France.

I have used many different types of thread, building layers over layers of machine embroidery.

Once I have completed the machine stitching I will then start adding hand stitches.

I think I have still quite a lot of hand stitching to do on this one.

Bye for now.x

Stitch News

Today we have had the most awful weather, heavy rain and it's been so dark.

I took our dog out for a walk with my son and we got soaked to the skin!

Just in case you are interested, my work will be featured in The Embroiderers Guild Stitch Magazine.

You can see it herehttp://www.embroiderersguild.com/stitch/currentissue.html

I was asked to make four embroideries which represented the four seasons, you will also see other work and an article on how I create my pieces.

My work will feature in the October/November issue 61.

I'm also excited because they will have my work on display at The Knitting & Stitching Show on the Stitch Magazine stand. I have never had work displayed at a sewing exhibition before.

I do hope I will be able to visit the show at Alexandra Palace in October.

Hope your having better weather than Warwickshire!

The World Is Full Of Stitches

With the weather so, well rubbish actually, I have been stitching away.

Another landscape to add to my collection.

I must say thank you to a few other stitchers,

cathy cullis for including me in some of her wonderful mosaics.

Kirsty from Me plus Molly who very kindly donated feathers,beads and other lovely things to the school I work at.

Carolyn from Love Stitching Red who tagged me, for six summer sillies, Carolyn, I can't think of anything except embarrassing my children by dancing!!

I hope the sun is shining soon, it would be nice to do a bit of outside painting.

Have a good week.x

Yellow Field Of Stitches

The last couple of days I have been a taxi service for my daughter.

We celebrated her fourteenth birthday yesterday and I'm still wondering where those years have gone?

I have managed to do some stitch work on my landscape, so here it is.

These were the fields I walked through in April , you may have seen my sketches.

Has something happened to blogger?

It's not showing my flickr link and other links, I know some other blogs are the same.

I'm always worried I have done something wrong!

Threads & Trees

You may have seen these pictures on flickr but I thought they should be part of my blog.

It has rained here on and off all day and I have been sorting out all my wool and threads.

I always need some time between projects to think and draw and today has been a good time to do that.

I popped over to the Art Gallery in the Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa yesterday and they now have my brooches on display.

It is a lovely gallery, opposite a beautiful park, so if you ever come to visit Leamington do take a look.

If you click here you will find a lot of information about the town and pictures.

I will post more art exhibition pictures in the week.

Bye for now.x

Art Exhibition

Hello, I just wanted to share these photographs from our annual school and community art exhibition.

I'm sure you will agree that the quality of drawing and sculpture would not be out of place in a private gallery or museum, well I am biased!

I enjoy so much working with the students and community artists.

I am also very privileged to work with the artist and sculptor George Wagstaffe who teaches our A'level students and life drawing class.You will find his sculptures in the City of Coventry.

This is just a small selection of the work by his students.

I will post more pictures over the next few days.

I forgot to say, I sold the tree embroidery I did from my last post.

From Paint To Threads

SOLD

I have been working from my sketch book again this week.

You can see how my threads become my sketches or is it my sketches become my threads?

My work can alter as I move between the two mediums.

I may still add more stitches to this piece.

Tomorrow I am helping to set up the A'level and community artist's work for our annual art exhibition.

So this may be used in the display.

It's count down to the end of the school term and it's going to be a busy week.

I hope I will be able to share some of the exhibition work with you.

Hope you have a great weekend.