This week saw my favourite day of the year -the 20th of March – the Vernal Equinox, and this year in conjunction with a total eclipse and a supermoon – must be a very auspicious sign, but of what I’m not sure – I just ended up with a severe migraine (again) for 3 days.
So, to textiles, and in my last post I said that Angela would probably have half a dozen cottage garden embroideries done by this week, and she has. Here’s one of them ……
Janet, however, has gone crazy patchwork cushion crazy. Well, we had to think of projects to use some of the fabric she arrived here with !
Some of her cushions …..
We had a great Mother’s Day workshop here last week, with Karen and Anna treating Mum Joan to a special day out. They chose to learn Stumpwork – raised embroidery – and a little flock of sheep had emerged by the end of the day !
…… Isn’t this pretty ?! I am running the same course again on Saturday at The Fabbadashery, I think it is fully booked but I’m sure we’ll be putting another date on.
The New Library Project saw us lino-printing again, this time incorporating fabric collage.
Beckie couldn’t resist photo-bombing !
And finally, in another busy week, back to the shop on Saturday for a morning of Canvaswork, making a little thimble-keeper ….
…. and an afternoon of rag rugging …
That’s not quite all for this week though, I did have an amazing day out last week with my friends Jackie and Mark. It was Mark’s birthday treat – a VIP, behind the scenes visit to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster. It focusses on the conservation and preservation of species and is not a ‘zoo’. We got to feed camels, armadillos, squirrel monkeys, lemurs and possibly best of all, …..the giraffes !
….top that !!!