Yvonne Brown Interview

Yvonne is a member Alveva Quilters at Feltwell in Norfolk. Her work and teaching is very inspirational as you can see by the video. See more of Yvonne's work and day to day diary on her blog www.yvonnedbrown.blogspot.com

Circles in Patchwork

I have been teaching Drunkards Path as part of The Sampler Quilt and a technique for many years. I love this quick method demonstrated in this video.
See students work on my daily blog site.
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Bag Making

I love this Bag making video as it shows all the techniques that you will encounter in most bag.
Enjoy watching and making.

Quick Dresden Plate

I am teaching The Dresden Plate this month as part of circles, curves and puffs inspiration. This video is so good in explaining how to use the 'Easy Dresden Ruler'.

See my dresden plate HERE

Folded Hearts

I just love these folded woven hearts and have always wanted to know how to make them!
Perfect for Valentines day decorations and can hold a small gift.
So here's how and enjoy.

Genetics

Something to think about, 'Inheritance' in more ways than one!

Exploding Box

I made my Exploding Box Card with Kim @The Gallery Dereham, you can make one too by following similar instructions on this You Tube Video.

See each of my card sections on my daily blog HERE

Embellishing

I took along the Embellisher Machines this week to 'Textile Tuesday and several new students had a play and created an ATC of Embellished Felt. It re- inspired me again and I looked on the internet for more creative ideas on how to mix fabrics and techniques using the machine and found, 'Double Trouble'.
This has given me lots more ideas. Enjoy watching this video with Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn.

Ceramic Corsets

Ceramic Corsets! What can I say! These just show what you can do with different medias.

Corsets

I am teaching many textile techniques on a Tuesday @The Gallery, one of which is costume and corsetry. I am using this fashion item and its elements of design as inspiration for many different projects. See my daily blog for the other projects and some of the experiences I have as an artist.

The surgical corset or under garment has been around for centuries and this video which is astonishing in some respects of how women choose to adapt their lives to fashion.

You can visit my daily blog at www.quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.com

Steampunk Fashion

This video is very inspirational!

I have just brought a Steampunk outfit and another corset pattern.

I especially love the coat in the video and

the a similar one which I hope to make.

See the pattern on my daily blog at

www.quilterscottagenorfolk.blogspot.com

Textile Fabric Book

I found this wonderful Fabric Journal made by keeponscraping on You Tube and was really inspired. As some of you may know I have been collecting Dress Forms and items that I could make a scrap book journal but decided that this was far more interesting to start my creativity off for 2012.
See my post of my Fabric Journal Pages on my Blog site
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Origami Paper Stars

I have been making and demonstrating how to make these origami stars out of

Christmas Wrapping Paper over the last couple of weeks.

I gave them away to the students who popped into

The Gallery Open Day Session on the 13th of December and sold some for Charity too!

See my blog posts about this on my daily blog below.

Instead of using money I used good quality Christmas Wrapping Paper

and cut the five rectangles, 4" by 7" which made them easier to handle by most

makers.

It was lovely to see people apprehensive at first because of the thought of the star

but as they repeated the points , the star started to come together and when they were holding

their own finished star, they were smiling and appreciating what they could make out of five bits of paper!

Origami can be a daunting skill for some if not made into easy steps and fun!

Enjoy making and sharing these as I have done.

Thank you to all that post wonderful makes and share their creativity on You Tube!

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Night Circus

I have just started reading 'The Night Circus' by Erin Morgaenstern.
I would highly recommend it. Erin's book has sparked off many new ideas for artworks.
Enjoy watching the trailer and reading.

Venice Inspiration

I am working on a new piece of work, a column based on Architecture and buildings decay.

See the column sculpture, 'Jeannetta Sculpiturio' on my art portfolio site

www.art2inspire.co.uk

I saw these wonderful videos on the Venetian Carnival and Experience and it led me down new ways and techniques within the art piece.

Hope it inspires you too!