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NEEDLE Magazine is Launched!

Yesterday we launched the first issue of NEEDLE magazine. I am amazed by the response and can't wait to work on the next issue!

New Blog!

I have now setup a new blog with my husband Andrew and our two children over at Wordpress. Now you can find out about all the other things myself and my husband and our children get up to! The new blog is called CraftyFrugals and is all about our adventures in living the 'good life' from crafts to design you will find it all there. Hope you will join us! You can also follow us on our CraftyFrugals twitter page too!

Harris Museum & Art Gallery Commission

Sometime ago I was contacted by the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston to produce the embroidered text for their up and coming exhibition Embellished: The Art of Fabulous Fabrics. I was asked to produce a design for the poster and the magazine adverts etc. The exhibition launches today with free art and textile workshops and the world’s largest embroidery will be on display! Some of the museum’s most beautiful textiles patterned by weaving, embroidery and printing will be on display and the exhibition will be onto November 2010. They are also displaying the embroidery that I did for the poster alongside an eighteenth-century gown in the finest Spitalfields silk as well as other exquisite examples of embroidery include pieces from Europe, India, China and Turkey, dating from the 1600s to the modern day. As you can imagine I am extremely chuffed!!!!

Changes!

Pippa Lou enjoying a spot of sewing with her mummy!

New work is on it's way! It has been ages since I posted here but I have been so busy with the Hand Embroidery Network (HEN). This does not mean however that I am no longer an artist because that is something I will always be, no matter what anyone says. Who gives a f*** right? Times a moving on and life is far to short to worry about petty minded people! Ok, so what have I been upto? Well if your bothered I have been working on some ideas for online courses as well as some illustrations. I have been cooking and knitting and I plan to do a lot more of this, oh and I am going to be doing a lot more painting too!

I am going to be making some changes to the blog and my personal website to reflect *All* the things I create so there will be lots of changes, I need a fresh start to things and need to put into perspective what is important to me and that is my family and my art.

Can't Breathe

An idea is forming, continuing on with my domestic pest series and pest no. 3

New Work - Dragonfly

Well it's been awhile since I last posted on here about my own work. I have been doing a lot of pen and ink drawings and I am working on some designs for HEN. I am though still embroidering and looking at ways of combining my ink drawings and my embroidery this is my first attempt below of ink drawing and satin stitch on canvas. I've started with insects as I still love these little guys, but I am thinking of doing some life drawing and maybe some landscapes in a similar way. I have really missed just drawing but could never give up embroidery. There is just something so simple about a pen and a piece of paper and nothing else. Anyway here is my ink pen and satin stitch dragonfly.