Working on four pieces simultaneously and bouncing ideas between them all.
I've seen an interesting distressing treatment on Chanel dress fabrics which I may explore.

Here's one I overlooked to upload when I completed it before Christmas with Slow Textiles @The V&A.

The colour isn't as strident but it's quite a challenge trying to capture such vivid colour

http://slowtextiles.org/

Slowly, slowly coming together.However I am working on two designs at the same time. So it does take f-o-r -e-v-e-r.

Approx the same amount shown here left to finish

A little piece of the new work I'm pondering over

Untitled

See and download the full gallery on posterous

it's -10 and falling so I'm embroidering a small wool quilt. Plenty of stitching to go...lovely.

Not a huge quilt but a big enough project to fill the evenings in front of the fire stitching

Sackler Centre V&A London

At the V&A learning how to work digitally with my manipulated work as inspiration.
This photograph shows other members of the group working on their reference taken from the Diaghilev exhibition currently showing at the museum

www.vam.ac.uk/school_stdnts/education_centre/index.html

The book written by one of the course leaders Melanie Bowles
Digital Textile Design.

Inflate.The stand opposite mine @ Tent .

Moving out of the kitchen

and out into the garden.So far so good. The rain has held off. Sadly the pile grows and grows. I'll  store it all in the studio tonight and load the van as soon as we can in the morning.

Preparing for Tent

Ironing and Packing

Running out of space. I need to move out into the garden soon. Please don't let it rain.