I did write a whole post to celebrate my eight years as a blogger but it seems I haven't learnt all my lessons in these eight years aft...

I have been working and working , getting all the pieces for the display at Abilmente Fieri in Vicenza in Italy quilted and satin stitched....

I have been ticking boxes on my countdown list and so far it's been going along at an ok pace and I haven't had to ditch too many i...

It's been a very full on week or two these past few weeks. I am trying to get as much sewing done as possible but  life also goes on. M...

The threads have finally arrived and I am desperately trying to make as many samples as I can whilst planning workshops etc. One of the wor...

I have warned you ... this will be a rather long blog post, but there has been so much in the planning these last few weeks, I can finally ...

I have been making a new linocut- I wanted something that suggested France, but after spending quite some time looking through my phot...

Part of the last year has involved reinventing what i do to some extent, especially as i have been unable to find any sort of permanent emp...

It's been a week I would rather forget and yet on the other hand a lot of good things happened.Firstly my favourite aunt who I always v...

It's so wonderful to be up early in the morning and to see the sun greeting the day instead of dank dark clouds filled with rain.It als...

I let myself get behind on tasks whilst I was mouldering in the doldrums- and that's not good, so I need to be clever and have multi-us...

I am still not over my  blues and the news on the car got worse though the timing belt has been done- all in a week's flings of outrage...

I have not blogged as much this year as in previous years because I have been struggling. Even despite doing the NEIS scheme I am finding i...

Thank you  for the kind and thoughtful responses I received in response to my previous post- it is much appreciated. I feel as if I am slow...

I think, like many other people around the world I have watched a little of the Olympics, although only small sessions at a time . I must a...

I have been busy printing some cat panels with my cat linocut and carving a new linocut . Well not quite new, I did start it in 2009 before...

Another week has simply flown by without much to show for it- though have done quite some planning and thinking about the France/Inspired b...

It has been a while since I  have played around with lutradur and after teaching a workshop last Sunday  using transfer dyes and lutradur...

Time is flying and sometimes I feel like I have left my brain behind somewhere in a dank wet place- since the \weather has been so horrible...

If you look carefully you can see the background stitching that has gone into the travellers blanket this last week. I finished embroider...