SERENDIPITY - an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. The musings of a Textile Artist. Sunday, May 10, 2015. Saw this pic on the internet - made me chuckle. Sunday, May 03, 2015. Still sick but up and stuff to show you. Been signed off work for yet another week - having no immune system means that this viral chest infection is going to be here for a long while. I hope to be well enough to go back to work on 11th May. Here is my other A4 sketchbook.

I love working with textiles. I work in sketchbooks and also utilise the computer to design my pieces and often improvise directly from the fabric. I hand dye and screenprint my own fabrics, then add the detailed design using dyes, fabric paints and discharge agents. The fabrics are machine and hand stitched, mostly into quilts but also into small embroideries. Some of my favourite links.

City and Guilds Level 3 Embroidery Certificate through Distant Stitch. Wednesday, 24 June 2015. As my design source is taken from cliffs and rocks I have decided not to introduce any colour but to keep to shades of black, white and brown. 8211; I chose to use bleach on black paper for this exercise. Tuesday, 23 June 2015.