Let’s Plan a Great Day Out A day out to see inspirational textiles and squish beautiful yarn is good for sense of your well-being. I know I always return, exhausted, but brimming with inspiration and wanting to create things immediately. So, make yourself a hot drink in your favourite mug and find a biscuit or two. Let’s plan some […]
Next Weekend is The Big Textile Show 2016 This month is flying by. As well as teaching and working on commissions, I’m busy preparing for The Big Textile Show 2016. This year instead of teaching I shall have an exhibition of my work and a stall selling my patterns and kits, as well as taking […]
Fibre, Yarn and Fibre Festivals: the Next Six Months This week, I’m taking a break from the series of blog posts about degree shows. This is so, I can update the details about yarn, fabric and fibre festivals for the rest of this year. There’s so many yarn and fibre festivals that I’m just including the dates and venue […]
Fabric, Fibre and Yarn at The Big Textile Show In my last post I told you about the Mini car yarn bomb at The Big Textile Show. Today I’m going to write about some of the exhibitions, workshops and stalls at the show. Inspiration! As usual there was a lot of fabulous work on display from local and […]
Let’s Yarn Bomb a Mini Car! This weekend was the third Big Textile Show. There were exhibitions, workshops and stalls selling fabric, fibre and yarn goodies. And there was a Mini Classic parked in the café area. The plan was to yarn bomb the car. Whose Crazy Idea Was This? Jenny organises The Big Textile Show. She […]
Inspirational Days Out Here are fibre, yarn and fabric festival dates for July to December 2015. I have included their dates, locations and links to websites. July Art in Action 16-19 July 2015 Waterperry House, Waterperry, Oxford, OX33 1JZ Art in Action website. Read about my day at Art in Action in 2014. Fibre East 25-26 July 2015 […]
Banish the Winter Blues I don’t know about you, but the winter months are not my favourite time of year. If it’s not raining, it’s cloudy, dull, damp and cold. We can’t make the Sun come out, but we can look forward to events in the coming year. I always feel excited when I am […]
