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100 days of : chapter 2

I’m taking part in the The 100 Day Project and have completed days 25-36.  You can read about days 1-24 here
I used a piece of fabric I received from Ruth McDonald in an exchange. Great textures, and lots of possibilities.
First I painted it with acrylic paint and stamped it with some foam stamps I bought at a carboot sale the previous day.… Read the rest
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100 days of : chapter 1

Last year I took part in The 100 Day Project you can read all about it here
Since then I have done 100 Days of Customisation  and I am on day 51 of  52 Days of Made on Monday 2016 Revisited
All of these endeavours involved me posting a photo for a number of  (not neccesarily consecutive) days on Instagram  and Facebook but none of them involved me actually making anything.

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postcard art : part 3

You can read part 1 here
and part 2 here

The other postcard swap group I belong to is the “PFA SWAP GROUP – Heart & Handmade Postcard Fabric Art Creations”.
PFA stands for Postcard Fabric Art.
It is a sister group to the one I spoke about here   Members of the main group are invited to join once they have completed at least 3 of the challenges.… Read the rest

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postcard art : part 2


This is part 2 , you can read part 1 here

I am a member of a Facebook group called “POSTCARD FABRIC ART – Quilt, Applique, FMQ Thread Sketch, Paint, Embellish+”
It is run by Ann Hillman Lamy, who describes it better than I ever could. She says..

“What’s small and colorful and can adorn the hearts of whoever receives one in the mail?… Read the rest

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change of heart…

I’ve been taking part in another collaborative project with 10 fellow members of a Facebook textile art group, and it  finished today.
Back in October I made an A4 sized piece of fabric and marked 11 heart shapes on it.

In a previous project we  made round brooches that you can see here
For the hearts we reversed the order they were sent in, so the person who contributed 1st to the round brooches was last to contribute to the hearts.

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stitchin’ time….

Another month over, another month of (pretty much) daily Stitch Meditations under my belt.
I stitched for 24 days for at least 15 minutes every day on this piece of barkcloth curtain fabric.
I worked on a 7x7cm square each day, here they are in no particular order.

This is the finished piece.

When it was done I had to decide what to stitch on next.… Read the rest

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give me an om….

End of January 2019, how the heck did that happen?
Oh yes, it happened because time flies when you’re having fun, and I have been having fun, handstitching daily for the last 50 odd days. I happened upon a Facebook group called “Stitch Meditations”, and watched a video  by a textile artist called Liz Kettle and I thought I’m having some of that.

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girls, girls, girls…

We are lucky to have the very talented Ruth Zanoni Roskell as a member of one of the collaborative textile groups I belong to. I have long admired Ruth’s work which you can see here
I really admire her dexterity on a sewing machine. With a seamingly simple line of  thread  she can create characters with  such individual personalities.

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