Bare branches When I come to England I often stay with Sandy and Simon in a little village in Cambridgeshire. This morning the church bells ...

Thatched house 

Village church 

Safari 

Starry Night I knew the minute that I started working with a green hued fabric that orange would not be far off. On Wednesday a parcel arri...

Starry Night and Safari 

Sewing Little Apples! The trouble with laying out the applique and ironing it in place is you have to sew it! And it takes some time to get ...

Green Apples I have been playing with some more tifaifai- instead of the square format, using an oblong format- I like the pattern long and ...

Two of a Kind 

More tiny Tifaifai I am in a celebratory mood- I have submitted my exegesis for my masters- so that's it! Three years of part-time readi...

Tiny tifaifai 

Karen's Gum Leaves 

Karen's Gum Leaves This is a little piece I worked on at Ardingly, hand pieced , hand printed with gum leaves from Karen's garden.H...

Procrastination Hi Celeste, Siena and Ynez- lots of pirate hugs to you! On deck! I often reduce pictures into greyscale to see the are...

Chinese cape Last weekend I spent at Ardingly in the South of England, with the Australian and New Zealand quilts I had taken for exhi...

Well here I am, briefly, in Belgium to pick up some quilts before I head back to England to pick up a hire car and then drive down to the Sp...

hand dyeing Running out of time and in major panic mode- so I went and did some dyeing to calm down. There is so much to do and ...

Mudcloth I love African textiles and the mudcloth on the left I purchased from Maggie Relph last year and the other is a scarf I bou...

thunder down under Last night we had an amazing thunderstorm, and at the end of it the light was all golden and coppery and this r...

Letters from Home