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These are books that I made following the Hands On afternoon that the Guild had with Coral Singleton and her teaching us to experiment with Markel Oil paint Sticks. This blue book is the one I began on the afternoon and took home to finish off - I 'markeled' - (is there such a word?) - iron-on vilene which I love for dying as it takes dyes so easliy and readily. I then embellished it with machine stitching and buttons and beads which I had to hand!

The orange one, in fact, was one I made with Coral later using tissue paper - amazing isn't it?Again I used the machine to embellish it a little!

I say that I do not do anything complicated which is true, but looking at this, it does look more complicated than it is!

The quilt is called Edward's Bears and is a floor quilt
designed to be robustly crawled over in due course.
Some of the bears are my design others taken from
published patterns, and appliqued on before being
randomly quilted. Everything is done on the machine
and the fabrics I used are silks, cottons and linens.
My machine will never be the same again but
I could get to like quilting!

This is the Beaded Fish pendant I began at the Day School with Ann Mockford, but finished off at home. I did eventually enjoy doing it, but certainly very different to my usual form of embroidery!

The red flower is the one made at the day school. I made another and quilted them both, making them into the bag large enough to hold sewing items for NKEG. Very ethical, because I should not have to resort to carrying all my sewing gear in plastic bags any more!

The doll is made using a pattern from Stitch magazine and was the trial one for a series of three fairy dolls sent to my great nieces in USA for Christmas presents 2007.

After the original sunflower book I made the monthly book, a sort of diary I keep mainly for garden notes but also other memories, using the encrusted piece we did at the 97 group on calico as the front cover. Following that I made the current book, my garden diary for this year with gesso onto fabric as the cover rather than the pelmet vylene used in the orginal. Finally I have made a purple covered book which is ready for my holiday memorabilia and sketches in May. Click here to see my other books .....

The heart box and the button box were the result of a day course, and I have made many others which have proved to be very popular as presents, particularly as they are large enough to hold sweets or gifts inside.

The tassels were made from forms given to me as a Christmas present.  Now I make my own of course.

The two small bags are the results of other courses, and have set in motion a deep love of decorated bags within me.

The yellow handbag is of hand made felt, made during a day course.  I embellished it with buttons as I have masses of them.

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