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Hello, I’m back
It has been quite a while since I posted. This is because of a combination of extensive travel and the consequences thereof, but I am on the mend, and ready to blog again. One of the events that I...
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Rebecca
A very good friend of mine is having a bit of a torrid time of it. She is a particularly big fan of my dolls, so I made her a present. It’s a bit whacky woo woo for me, but she is made as a healing...
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Textiles for when you can’t sleep.
The other night I was finding it very difficult to sleep, so I turned on the television and watched Troy (2006). It is not a great film, but it does have the most fantastic costumes. The Trojans wear...
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Mandy Pattullo at the Festival of Quilts
I posted earlier in the week about the Festival of Quilts at the NEC. I had walked all the way round several times, I thought, but almost at the end of my visit I came to a white cube gallery that I...
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Inspiration from this season haute couture
I am not what you would call a fashionista, although, as a fabric lover, I do like clothes, but even I have been struck by the Fall (sorry) 2013 campaigns. The current Chanel campaign is really...
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www.spoonflower.com
I dare say that people reading this blog all know about Spoonflower (http://www.spoonflower.com/). I am always the last to know. It’s a site which prints your fabric designs on a variety of fabric...
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New Year Doll 2014
Every year I make a New Year Doll. I do this on New Year’s Day, and the only rule is that it has to be made on one single day. Last year I cheated a bit and assembled a doll from the arms and legs...
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Should you happen to be in Copenhagen…
This is a very quick post. I am in Copenhagen to do some external examining work, but I couldn’t let the opportunity slip by to go and have a look at the new fabric shop that has opened on...
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Little Laura 3
I do love an encrusted surface and this Laura has a lot of very shiny black beads appliqué-d down the right-hand-side. There is an old turquoise bead earring on the left, which I got in a lucky bag I...
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St Judes Fabrics
This is a website I would like to share for anybody who likes fine graphic prints in slightly nostalgic colour schemes. The link is http://www.stjudesfabrics.co.uk/ Several of the cushions and bags...
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What I did on Sunday
Well, I should have been working at the day job, but for some reason I have the big Urge to Create yesterday and so I gave in. I finished the last of the little Laura panels just after lunch and I went...
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What I did at the weekend
I love Bank Holidays because I don’t feel so guilty about spending a chunk of time in my workroom. I started off today making a quilt for a new baby, but it went horribly wrong when I rather...
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The £50,000 question
Big Keith’s appraisal in ‘The Office” Events took a surprising turn this week: I had a really useful appraisal with my new colleague, Jon Beaverstock. Appraisals, for those of you fortunate enough...
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A post as much for me as you
Today is a momentous day. I have finally started work towards my book. I have sat down and written out plans before for a book which all came to nothing, because I think books have to be ‘ready’...
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War Collar Three: The Don’t Mess With Me Collar
This piece is another which has been looking for a home. I made the piece on a workshop at Heartspace Studios with Basil Kardasis in 2012. I’ve noted before that I love things that are really heavy...
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Malvern Autumn Quilt Show
This is a quick photo post of the Malvern Autumn Quilt show that I went to today with my excellent friends Ceri and Alison. It’s quite a small show and so you could see it all easily, and you could...
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Gillian Travis at Malvern Quilt Show
There was a lot of lovely work on show at Malvern, but the ones I liked the absolute best were Gillian Travis’ Indian quilts. I think this is probably because my own work is going through such a...
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What I did at the weekend
If you read my previous post you will know that I have had a very busy time recently. So this weekend, although I have a head buzzing with Laura Ashley ideas which need making, I found myself making...
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What I did this weekend
I spent the weekend at my mother’s, and decided to go up into the loft to see if I could find my old Barbie dolls. They seem to have disappeared without trace for the time being, but I did find a...
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New Year’s Doll 2015
Every year on New Year’s Day I make a doll. I either make something which reflects how I am feeling about the past year or something that I want to work on in the coming one. Here are the links to...
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