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What I did on Saturday – Bristol Quilters’ Exhibition
This weekend we held Bristol Quilters’ Exhibition. It comes round once every two years which is a really good spacing because it gives us time to produce some very nice pieces. I can’t single out...
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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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Janet Clare Workshop
I was very lucky last week to go to Janet Clare’s talk at Bristol Quilters and then to her workshop the following day. The talk was about publishing her books, and came in a series of talks we have...
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On the joy of getting something right
Last week I had a particularly bad day at work. I went to a meeting where just about every behaviour I warn students about was on display. So, no-one (except idiotic me) was prepared to stand up to...
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The joy of making
I am not entirely sure what this post is going to be about. I spent quite a lot of the weekend sewing, which was a massive luxury. I am preparing a new talk which will be given its first airing...
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Public engagement – Thinking Futures Workshop and Glamorgan Quilters
It has been one of the busiest two weeks of my life, which is why I haven’t posted anything recently. First my lovely PhD student, Zara, had her viva. Although this is her oral exam on her thesis, I...
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What I did at the weekend
This isn’t what I did last weekend, but the weekend before, a very blustery weekend in January spent in Porthleven in Cornwall with my very excellent friends, Alison, Ceri and Becky. Alison’s family...
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van Gogh in purple and yellow
This is the second sample from the Vincent van Gogh workshop, this time working with purple and yellow, which co-incidentally were the colours of my school uniform. I love this combination, although...
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Six pear notebooks
Over the Bank Holiday weekend I have been making strenuous efforts to clear up my work room – photographic evidence to follow. But, in my experience, there is only so much clearing up you can do...
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What I have been doing since it seems like forever
Last weekend, which was the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, things had got so bad in my sewing room that I couldn’t face going into it, and when I did I found it very hard to navigate across the floor....
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What I did at the weekend
This weekend was spent filling up the reservoir, as it were, as I spent a lot of time with my Grate Frend Beatriz at exhibitions and in art shops. On Friday we went to the blockbuster exhibition...
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Concerning dolls and perfection
For my birthday, my very generous mother bought me a Mimi Kirchner doll. I have wanted one of Kirchner’s dolls since I came across her work in a book on doll making and used it to create my Laura...
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Joy in work: feathers
Very occasionally I get to write one of these posts about when a piece of work just goes amazingly well. This is one of those occasions. It feels like I just turn up and provide the hands but the...
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Modernista Easter
It seems to me that not everyone wants pretty pastel things at Easter and so I did a bit of What if? thinking. What if we made some decorations which were based on a bit more sophisticated palette...
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Soft launch at Pomegranate
Saturday was a big day for me. I invited four friends to come and try out my studio as a space for workshops. I was really anxious in case it didn’t work. It is snug, and people have to cooperate...
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Turtle Egg
There has been one of my all too frequent gaps in posting. Again it is because I have been doing a lot of making, mainly on my inspired by Fabergé eggs. I have also moved on to working with wook...
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