Finally, after a full year of painting these two pieces in a Hollis Chatelain workshop, I have quilted and finished them! The top one is a Varied Eggfly, not a particularly thrilling name for a butterfly, but nonetheless, he is a lovely specimen. That piece photographs particularly well, too, not…
Good Morning dear readers, today I am going to show you from go to woe my latest little piece and how it sprang to life from a little pile of bits and pieces. For interests sake and to see what would happen, I decided to take the same starting point…
Finally, here I am, in the mood to do some blogging, and have I got a little treat for you! This piece was fun to make and a challenge colour wise, I like the way that there is only fundamentally two colours – blue and orange (with lots of earthy…
Just whipped up this little piece the other day. Cute little Azure Kingfisher, sitting in the deep dark rainforest. I based this on a photo I took of said bird, with the little image of him about 1cm big in the vast expanse of green. Sadly, bird photography is not…
For a very long time, I have been planning on ‘one day’ doing some exercises from all those delicious books on my bookshelf. Well, finally the day did come where I made a start. I followed the instructions in Bonnie McCaffery’s “Portrait Quilts” book, and above is the result. Come…
This picture is a detail of ‘Emperors of the Elements’ and is the Earth Dragon. The full quilt can be viewed on my web page.Right, it was time to try some more dragons, but the question was how to do them differently. First, step, reasearch at the local library. I…