I am enroute to Bruxelles and very sad to leave Syria- but as the British and Canadian embassies ( Canada helps out Australians when we don...

I can scarce believe it but apart from hand sewing five sentinelles are done! it's been a marathon of sewing and the bindings are on all...

I have been slack in taking in progress photos as my sentinels develop, mainly because I am just working and working. I intend to make six a...

It's been a busy week- sewing, writing an article for Down Under Textiles, teaching the Travellers Blanket for the first time. On Saturd...

I have been sewing  and sewing and my machine is not co-operating with the double thread I am running through it - the tension on the back o...

I have been hard at work but seem not to have achieved as much as I wanted. I was determined to get the blue sentinelle to a place where i ...

I feel overwhelmed by the recent events in New Zealand and Japan and the human tragedy that affects us all and leaves us helpless.I will be ...

I have cut out the stencil but  as i used vilene it was not water proof so I have had to seal it with clear lacquer. Of course the weather t...

I have been cutting out a life size stencil of a sentinelle.It's taken me ages as i wanted the effect to be  lacey.I finally finished it...

I am not sure where my week has gone- I have worked hard, making final arrangements for my trip to Syria and then Europe. I shall be teachin...

I have been working- yay. I am working on a large sentinel piece, but am fighting a battle with a thread I am using and got annoyed with it ...

I have finished stitching the River Sentinel- the fabrics have been heavily textured with stitch. I am thinking I want to make these life si...

I have been working on a new linocut , toying with the idea of sentinels/guardians/keepers of the land. I know they look kind of  madonna li...

Still no sewing done but a few ideas are percolating. It's been a case of going back to basics- ie my drawing journal, lace, immigration...

I have no idea where that last week went, but all the children are back at school finally- it's been a long holiday with moving and ever...

I am feeling like a bit of a charlatan on the textile front. Nothing seems to be emerging from my hands, and already another week has passed...

Thank you for all those who had placed bids on my Barrier Reef piece - there is still 4 days to go, but your generosity will help those affe...

The plight of thousands and thousands of Queenslanders in the face of the most devastating floods has finally made me pull out my sewing mac...

I have been stitching on the khadi cloth that i dyed whilst i was still in France. I am not sure if it is worth the effort- the contrast do...

I have been playing around trying to create a repeat pattern for a linocut. Obviously this one needs a bit of work and refinement but I have...