Happy New year to you all!

The new year starts well for me with my quilts getting ready to travel to the national Quilt Museum in Paducah, with some of the top British names in Quiltmaking! See the following link!http://www.quiltmuseum.org/upcoming-exhibits.html

Over the holiday period I have been busy making quilts for my Solo Exhibition at the Festival of Quilts in 2013, I know it is a long way off, but I have lots of exhibitions coming up with friends Yvonne Brown and ATW [Anglia Textile Works].

My exhibition is going to be called Sticks and Stones based on the Forest around Thetford where I now live - see manipulated image above. The work is going to feature dyed, painted, screen prinited fabrics as well as some image transfer work. There is going to be a book to go with the exhibition too expaining my techniques.

Happy new year to you!

I have an inclusion in the new book by the publishers of Cloth Paper Scissors!

The book is a collection of articles previously published in CPS, and is about using mixed media, making papers, dying fabrics and hand stitching.

Not a very good picture - but you get the idea!

New classes for the Autumn!

4th & 5th November - Screen Printing - we will be playing around with various techniques including paper, freezer paper and vilene stencils with dye paste, as well as discharge techniques to produce exciting vibrant lengths of fabric.

29th November - 2nd December - Winter Summer School! - we will be creating designs from architecture and the worlds around us as a base for this 4 day machine embroidery workshop. Some knowledge of free machine embroidery is useful.

13th & 14th December - Image transfer workshop - we will be experimenting with different ways of transferring images to fabric and then creating a small machine stitched panel.

Foe more information or to book a place please see www.creativestitchsuffolk.co.uk or phone SEFWI [Suffolk East Federation of WIs], Orford Street, Ipswich on 0147325163

A bit late but this is Clive Barnetts work was selected for the further education Gallery and he won the £1000 bursary!! We were thrilled to bits for him. He will return next year with booth of his own showing how his studies have prgressed.

This is Barbara Clarke's work - she is now doing the Diploma course.

This is work by Mary McIntosh who has now joined us on the teaching team at Creative Stitch Suffolk.

Very Excited!!

I heard yesterday that all three students I had put in for the Further Education Gallery at the Festival of Quilts 2011 have been accepted - what a thrill!

They are;
Clive Barnett & Barbara Clarke who have just completed the Certificate C & G Patchwork and Quilting who have also been taught by Marion Barnes and also
Mary McIntosh Diploma C & G Diploma Patchwork and Quilting taught by me.

The whole class was jumping up and down with delight today!!!

Also to say that Mary McIntosh will be joining the team at Creative Stitch Suffolk to teach C&G P&Q from September, welcome to the team Mary!

This weekend is our City and Guilds exhibition where Art Van Go will be in attendance, showing work from the City and Guilds Certificate and Diploma students.

Venue - Wickham Market Village hall, nr Woodbridge, Suffolk

Times - 10 am - 4pm

£2 admission

See you there!

I have just heard that two small quilts I made have been accepted for an exhibition at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky, USA next year! I think the exhibition is about British Quilt artists.

The quilts are small and based on photos I took of the ruins of Thetord Priory [see left], where we now live. They have only been seen by visitors to the exhibition that Yvonne Brown and I had at the St Edmund Gallery, in Bury St Edmunds last November.