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I am a textile artist living on the Suffolk Essex border. I am a member of the Out of the Fold Textile Group and East Anglian Stitched Textiles (EAST)I am the Principal Tutor for Creative Stitch which offers courses in Creative Patchwork and Quilting and Creative Stitch Textiles. I teach each year at the Knitting & Stitching Shows and Festival of Quilts. I also offer workshops and talks to groups throughout the UK in person and via zoom.I am also a member of the QGBI and the specialist Contemporary Quilt Group and STARS (formerly Suffolk West Embroiderers Guild)

Wednesday, 9 November 2022

Crazy Notions

 

Crazy Notions series


'Notions' is a word which has passed from general usage being at first the word used in the USA to mean a great idea or clever invention.

Later it passed into use by haberdashers to describe sewing notions - fastenings and embellishments.

This piece is just a bit of fun really. Combining crazy patchwork squares with lots of ways of using notions.


I had a lovely time in the haberdashery department of Wallis and Mcculoch in London https://www.macculloch-wallis.co.uk/c/717/haberdashery picking out a selection of notions to use


Cotton organdie in both white and black is perfect for crazy patchwork using the pojaji piecing technique
Using pirns as hanging devices gave a nice link to the weaving theme of the exhibition.


Pirns are wound with the weft thread and then inserted into the shuttle. 


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