The 10Year Stitch 2

Some more pieces of work from our exhibition.

I'm so excited - Sonia Clifton

Power of Ten IV
Power of Ten II

Rachel Knight

10 3D bowls each with 10 petals - Rita Maton

Celebrate 10 in Words
Celebrate 10 in Numbers

Sue Crook

Joie de Vivre 1 - Rachel Knight

Textured Turquoise '10' - Ann Beer
Its Time to Celebrate - Sonia Clifton

The 10 Year Stitch 1

TextileArt07 group which was started at the end of City and Guild machine embroidery courses  run by Sandra Hardy, has now been together for 10 years.

The members created work that was inspired with the celebration theme, or their favourite techniques learnt over the period.

My photography was restricted by the angles of the work and the reflections from the hall windows on framed pieces.  I apologise to the artists.

An overall view.

Meandering Lines - June Withers

Leather Anniversary
Cloth Anniversary
Paper Anniversary

Pottery Anniversary
Willow Anniversary
Tin Anniversary


Gail Winter

Fireworks - Marianne Mohandes

Jeyons Tree - Wendy Lloyd

My Spirits Fly - Wendy Lloyd

Meditation - Wendy Lloyd














Joie de Vivre - Rachel Knight

TextileArt07 Exhibition 2017

Winter Wall Hanging 4

My wall hanging is really coming together now.

The last corner to be attached.

The hanging is now assembled and ready to layer and quilt.  I am going to machine quilt first and then add some hand embroidery and embellishments for extra interest.

Winter Wall hanging 3

The wall hanging is really coming together as small areas are being completed and sown together.

The area above shows the cut pieces ready to sew for a section  and below they are stitched and placed into position.

Winter Wall Hanging 2

After the embroideries were sown out on my sewing machine,  I added them to the design wall and my chart informed me how many inches I still had to fill with squares.

Some more embroideries.

Winter Panel Wallhanging 1

I have an area in my hall on which I like to hang a wall hanging for each season and I was missing one for Winter.  At the Festival of Quilts I bought a Scandinavian Folk panel which I thought I could customise.  I could have made the whole hanging from scratch but I am very short of time.

I cut out the blocks and placed them on my design wall for inspiration. I cut out a few small squares to test them for colour.

Each panel was  10 inches square and so after I measured the size of the finished hanging, I cut out some 10  inch squares and did a rough plan of where they would positioned.

I rearranged the panel blocks  and then started working in the spaces with small squares.  I wanted to keep the colour palette simple with grey, white, red and pink.

I wanted some of the blocks to look like red work and so I searched through my embroidery patterns on my embroidery unit for any that might be suitable.  I didn't want any Christmas ones as I would like to have the option of hanging the quilt all Winter.

Some designs were sown out with red thread, some with grey and others in white to add variety.