Something fishy

So, what I have been doing?  Quite a lot of this and that, with some time for creativity thrown in!  I’ve been boiling up some cauldrons too, and more about that later.

Firstly, here’s part of a piece started on the embellisher.  It’s a combination of fabrics, some stitching, and some printing.

It’s due some machine embroidery shortly, but that won’t be this week.

On Saturday we are travelling to Missenden Abbey for their Open Day.  Anyone coming? Don’t forget to come and say ‘hi’.  If you want us to bring something specific you can give us a ring, contact details are here.   There is never enough room, so we have to be selective in our choice of supplies.

As for the cauldron, well, I’ve been preparing some interesting and exciting samples for a new course that is running next month.  It’s called ‘Let’s Play With Dyes’, and promises to be fun.  It will be the last time I am teaching at Urchfont Manor before it closes, and this course is not the same as any I’ve taught before.  You’ll have to wait for a while to see any samples, I want them to remain a secret until the course.  They are fun techniques – using some unlikely ingredients to obtains interesting results.  There are still a couple of places on the course, so if you haven’t been to Urchfont before this could be your last chance.  If you have been before you can enjoy the facilities and food for maybe the last time.

Sadly it has apparently been decided not to have the Open Day at Urchfont this year.  If you are disappointed you can still get your textile ‘fix’ this weekend at Missenden Abbey, and also at Eastleigh College at the beginning of next month.  I’ll let you have more details of that in a day or so, but in the meantime, I hope to see you on Saturday at Great Missenden.  

I couldn’t resist!

There’s quite a lot I want to tell you about, but I’m waiting for some information before I pass it on.  In the meantime, I couldn’t resist showing you these dye pots.

I’m teaching a multi-day workshop called Let’s Play with Dyes.  It’s slightly different, and looks at a variety of methods, including a very easy, but fun, introduction to natural dyeing.  It’s in a short while, so I’m preparing some samples.

Those of you that have done a course with me before might think you know what I’ve done here…….

……. but it’s something quite different!

The next course is for a private group, but I’m teaching it at Urchfont Manor in July  if you are interested in joining in there I suggest you book asap.  (If you look at the photographs there don’t panic, they are not from this Let’s Play with Dyes but Urchfont’s photographs of a previous course)

These samples are not the main focus of the weekend.  I’ll show you the results and some of the others at another time.

As soon as I have that information I mentioned at the beginning of this post I’ll be back to pass it on.  Please watch out for it.

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