sara impey visits alveva quilters

one of sara's iconic pieces of work

sara talking to liz nally after the talk

we were very lucky to have sara impey speaking to the group at our march meeting. everyone was enthralled by the story of her working practice and, indeed, by the amazing examples that she brought along to show us. I just love the piece at the top with all the hanging threads-wish I had thought of that!

Quilters Guild Regional Day in the Lake District

just got back from a weekend in the lake district. Regional day with the quilters guild in Braithwaite followed by a workshop day at just sew in penrith and a day walking in the spring sunshine around ambleside and grassmere, yes we really did see a host of golden daffodils!

Quilters Guild Regional Weekend in Frodsham (and a visit to Chester)

 I had a really good weekend with the 'girls' from Quilters Guild Region 13 at Frodsham in Cheshire, two workshop days and the regional day on Saturday. it was great to see so many familiar faces and meet many new friends. here are some of the girls at the marvellous marble workshop-work in progress- I look forward to seeing the finished pieces! I also had time to make a lightening trip into Chester, the cathedral has loads of little gems including this iconic sculpture in the garden and some amazing stained glass.

Quilters Guild Regional Day in Durham

what a great trip north, lovely spring weather and lots of enthusiastic quilters at the meeting. I managed to fit in a flying visit to durham cathedral then regional day and workshop in durham followed by another workshop day in stannington - its a long drive though! Now going the other way just about to leave for a regional weekend in Cheshire.

alveva quilters workshop day

today we have had a workshop day here in feltwell, a lovely group of 12 industrious and creative girls playing with synthetic fabrics and soldering irons at the cutting edge celtic workshop-great results! well done girls I hope you all enjoyed yourselves.

 

 

 

 

 

Lutterworth Piecemakers

So this week I have been to Walcot near Lutterworth to meet the ladies at the Piecemakers group I was invited to speak at their evening meeting and then we had a workshop day playing with  tiles and soldering irons and heat guns! very industrious and some lovely results as you can see. thank you for making me so welcome and a very good 'billet' with Maria and Mark.

getting ready

although I've been at home for a few weeks and no teaching to speak of I have been very busy with 'creative things' and preparing for up and coming workshops, all seems to kick off again next week which also means a lot of driving so I hope the weather isn't too bad - please no snow or high winds!

things have become quite fraught here though because we have had a major hiccup with the electrics in the house (a long story so I won't go into it here) but it has meant that every electric installation in the house has got to be checked, electricians have been here for 8 days and not finished yet, the stress and disruption hasn't helped with my prep! Its hard to get on with stuff when there's people working in the house all the time and the electricity keeps going off.

sorting out worksheets

painting papers for transfer printing

printing yards of kunin felt

stacks of coloured kunin felt and foiled and painted evalon

as you can see lots of preparation but still more to do!