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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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