Two UFO's done, 999+ to go . . .

A few months back we did this Banjara-style stitching with Tiggy Rawling at West Country Embroiderers. I've now finished my bit and have made it into this bag, with dangling elephants and cords made of twisted sari threads. And these are my folder covers, not given pages yet (I'm still figuring out how to organise the holes), done with Wendy Jackson.

The outer fabric is a piece of batik done at a workshop at Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire several years ago. The inside fabric was done one day dyeing with a friend. It is a bog standard Dylon dye, bronze rose, and has separated out into interesting bits of colour, adding nicely and unexpectedly to the intended splodgy effect of crumpling into a jar.

The embroidery is a slip that was added on. It has knotted cretan stitch, wrapped to make more textural.

Banjara embroidery . .

. . . at West Country Embroiderers last month. All the horizontal stitches were done beforehand at home, then on the day we enjoyed playing with the interlacing, making pretty patterns. The tutor was Tig Rawling, see I'd rather be in India blog.

Two more current projects . . .

Part of a 27" long strip 3" wide being made for a group entry for a Quilters Guild challenge. Infinity, the local Comtemporary Quilt group I belong to, gave itself 3 ideas as inspiration - India, folded fabric and equilateral triangle. One of the granddaughters did some nice handprints for me, 7 year old Hannah. She enjoyed getting paint all over herself and chose her own colours after I'd got her to do the white ones. It will be one of my entries for the Inconvenient Truths exhibition (see previous post when I couldn't remember the actual title of it), and also one of the CQ journal quilts for this year.