Today I had the wonderful pleasure of being a student in the Tsukineiko Inks workshop with the talented Judy Coates-Perez. It was a great day, I learnt heaps and am all fired up to use my newly aquired skills. Here’s what I painted in the workshop: So if, dear readers,…
I am facilitating a one day workshop with the most fabulously talented Judy Coates-Perez from the US, and am really excited about it. If you are interested in coming along, then please contact me for further information and to book your place. Tsukeiko InksWednesday, 9th October, 9.30amPeachester Hall, Peachester, Sunshine…
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…
I have been busy making sample pieces for the curved piecing workshop that I teach. The added bonus for participants, is that they get to learn how to draft their own patterns first, which gives them an understanding of design elements and “where to start” with the dreaded empty sheet…
I have finished teaching the Chinese Dragon workshops and was very proud and impressed by the results of my students, they did a fantastic job! It wasn’t easy for them because we didn’t have enough time and they had to finish off at home with a list of instructions, but,…
Late last year, I did a “Landscape Mosaic” workshop with the fabulously talented and lovely Gloria Loughman and very much enjoyed myself. We had to design our own piece, and with Gloria’s guidance our quilts came together. Mine, titled “on Bustard Head” was based on some holiday snaps I took…