Stitches

I spent the weekend in Mum & Dads Norfolk garden soaking up some sun and live inspiration for some stitchery.

My dad was pleased as punch that this giant hollyhock self-seeded and grew this big in just this year.

And I enjoyed translating it into embroidery.

Fabric butterflies and moths

There is a big gap forming between what I’m doing each day and the speed I get here to show it!

I’ve been busy lately making fabric butterflies and moths for an upcoming MAC workshop.

I’m loving the variety of work that teaching Textiles opens up.

I have loads of photo reference from my trip here last year which has come in really handy.

I love it when you follow your heart’s inspiration only to find things come together at a later date.

I couldn’t have known back then how useful the trip to the Oxford Natural History Museum would be and I guess that’s why artist play dates are so important (explanation here)

And it’s interesting for me to see the marriage of painting and textiles coming about too on this project.

BTW did you see my new website header sneak in!