A trip to the theatre

I haven't been around for a while because I have had to finish my City & Guilds course which took up a lot of time. But I have finally finished it and I am glad to see the back of it. We started the course such a long time ago it seems and I was determined not to do my usual thing of leaving it all until the last minute. I did a little bit here and there but I still managed to get way behind.

This is my final piece for the City & Guilds Patchwork and Quilting course, it is approximately 1 metre square and I didn't think I was going to get it in my car when it came to dropping it off. Its in a 6 inch deep MDF shadow box so it stands independantly. The peacock is hand sequined, the scenery is layers of hand painted and quilted trees on organza to give the illusion of depth. The fabrics are hand dyed and printed with my own lino cut. If you look closely at the side panels they are printed with the traditional sad/happy theatre masks.

 It was a lot of work, I can never take the easy route if there is a difficult one to go down!

 I have no idea what I am going to do with it when my tutor has finished with it!!

A little house for little people

A new pattern for a cute little fabric house. This house has been designed for the little people in the photo to live in. I have designed the pattern to be as simple as possible. It contains step by step instructions with colour diagrams which show you what to do and how to do it. 

I have developed my patterns after visiting many shops that sell fabrics and patterns etc and being shocked at the price of a pattern and what they contain. One shop I visited wanted £5 for one black and white A4 sheet of paper!! I couldn't believe it! There were no diagrams and not too much instruction, it was even folded neatly!

I think the price and lack of direction can often put off people who are new to the wonderful world of creativity and make them feel that a pattern is going to be difficult to understand. On the other hand a simple beginners pattern can be plain and uninspiring.

And so Scissors N Cloth was born. I hope to over the coming months create and deliver a range of attractive but achievable projects for anyone to have a go at, either being a creative beginner or more advanced sewer who could add their own slant to the pattern. 

This time next year Rodney!!

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