This blog contains Digital Photography, designs and fabric art created using graphics programs, Corel Draw, Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop Elements 11. I shall share my thoughts and ideas about creativity in the hope that this will spur me on to greater things. I am quite technically minded and like to know how things work.
I know you’ve seen many photos of ‘my’ castle, but here is the castle in the early morning sun.
And in the evening. See how the shadow is on the left of the turrets now?
I was concentrating on trying to get a photo of the heron I hadn’t realised I had those lovely reflections.
The close-up of my Margaret Beale piece is for Claudia in Chicago. I hope she looks in.
I am quite excited as I have just been able to book my place on the coach for the Festival of Quilts for Thursday August 19th. The coach always fills up quickly and I was afraid I’d left it too late.
Read all about our latest Guild Workshop on Croesew the North Wales Embroiderers’ Guild blog.
We had Helen Melvin of Fiery Felts teaching us to make beautifully soft Gossamer felt. Helen dyes all her own fibres using her own dyes made from her very own Dye Garden. Find out more about her Dye Garden on her Growing Colour blog.
Promises, promises! As I left the house I told myself I would not spend on fibres at the workshop as I already have plenty. Above is what I bought and they are such beautiful colours. I have been looking for Wensleydale dyed curly fleece. Helen sold packets of Seewater Curls which are very similar in beautiful colours, so I had to buy them of course and there was this lovely large pack of fibres in various shades of pink that I fell in love with. I hope you will be able to see them properly, but I didn’t want to take them out of the Ziplock bags just yet. For now they are there to savour and look at.
These are the felts I produced. This doesn’t mean that I am putting away my Embellisher, rather I hope these will be an addition to the work I do using the Embellisher.
Don’t forget to visit Croesew will you?
We had a wonderful day yesterday at the Wales regional meeting. It not often that we are able to meet the South Wales members as the terrain makes it difficult to have meeting often. I have found myself meeting the same people each year and getting to know them better each time. It was fun and well worth being rather queasy on the journey to and from Llanidloes which is in mid Wales. making it more convenient for both groups.
Llanidloes is a small market town and unique in these days of towns full of the same shops, with small individual and interesting shops and a very good book shop with a variety of interesting books for quilters, stitchers and artists.
These two beauties are myself and Carol (McFee) co-writer of Stitching the Textured Surface with Lynda Monk. We spent all day together and we just didn’t stop talking about one thing and another, textiles being very high on the list.
The guest speaker was the famous Welsh artist Eleri Mills. For more details of the regional day please visit Croesew the North Wales Embroiderers’ Guild blog.
