Harrogate Knitting and Stitching Show

If you are visiting the Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate then please come along to the Artists in Action zone on Friday 24th or Sunday 26th November to see me demonstrating the 'Life's a Bleach!' technique

Life's a bleach experiments (WIP)

Out of the Fold mini exhibition

Out Of the Fold have an exhibition of small pieces in the first floor gallery at Denny Bros in Bury St Edmunds. Mostly framed or mounted pieces for sale - ideal Christmas gifts for the textile lover in your life.

Tin Hut Textiles exhibition getting close

Just finishing off some pieces to go into the Tin Hut Exhibition at Snape www.snapemaltings.co.uk.

This is a new body of work being unveiled for the first time. A little glimpse to tempt you along to the exhibition:
Venue: Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP171SP
Date: Friday 1st - Wed 6th September 2017
Time: 10am - 5pm

Fragments 2 detail

Fragments 3 detail

There will be lots of work by all 10 members of Tin Hut Textiles including our newest member Linda Kiff - hope to see you there

First demo at Festival of Quilts

I did my first ever demonstration at the Festival of Quilts 2017 showing the 'Life's a bleach' technique. The demo was filmed and shown on a large screen. Here is the room starting to fill up. Very multinational audience - the front row had visitors from Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand and Colchester

Copper Bleach on the way to a new home

It is with mixed emotions that I send my quilt off to a new home in Henley on Thames. I am delighted that a buyer likes it enough to hang it on the wall of their house but it is like saying farewell to a beloved friend after so many happy hours in the making.

Copper bleach by Mary McIntosh. Triptych 1.2 metres x 1.6 metres

 

Highly Commended at Festival of Quilts 2017

Really pleased to receive a Highly Commended for my entry into the Miniature Quilt competition at FOQ this year. This was originally made as a sample for a larger piece

Copper Coil miniature 8" square

Ebb and Flow pieces

In the rush to complete the pieces for the Tin Hut Textiles exhibition I forgot to take photos. So now the exhibition is over here are the three hangings on the theme of Ebb and Flow.......

Ebb and Flow. Black linen wholecloth discharged bleached and stitched

Ebb and Flow detail

Ebb and Flow. Inspired by ripples in the sand at beautiful Druridge Bay.
Recylcled calico coffin cover, rusted and handstitched

Ebb and Flow inspired by the lovely textures of the beach and dunes of Waxham Sands.
Artic wool felt embellished, shrunk, dyed and stitched

Waxham Sands detail