Experiments with textiles,paints and plants
Over the course of the last 6 months on my daily-ish walks down Abbeyfields in Faversham, I've been mapping and recording my impressions of this ' Place' inspired by Alice Fox course ' Place-making Winter. I've finally got round to compiling some of the drawings ( on Abaca tissue, Colour Catchers) prints, texts, fabrics into a ' book of Marks ' . The structure is based on that learnt on Dorothy Caldwell course in Puglia 2013 of sewn signatures with a needle woven binding . I've used it se
I've been making Journal Quilts every year since 2003 ( and with Contemporary Quilt of QGBI since 2007) . This year they are to be of a theme and shape(s) of your own choosing but designed so that at the end of the year they can be joined together in some way for possible exhibition. My favourite / most successful set of JQ's is from 2013 when I chose 'Indigo' as my theme so that is what I've chose to revisit but deciding on size/ shapes took a lot of pondering on graph paper! I