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A few weeks ago, I spent the day at a Fabric Flower Workshop with Gillian Travis . The previous night Gillian had given a talk and show and tell to our quilting branch . It was a very inspiring talk, as Gillian showed how she got inspiration for her everyday surroundings and holidays, and showed how she uses photo's and journals in her work. I was very inspired by her talk and got lots of ideas for future projects from it. The flowers were fairly tricky and labour intensive to make, so I don't think I'll be making massive bouqets of fabric flowers anytime soon, but it was nice to know how to make them. I currently have only 1 finished flower, but have about 5 more in various stages of completion. Hopefully, this week I might get a chance to finish them off.

Last month I spent a weekend down in Cork at the Cork Textiles Network "Making Tomorrow" Annual Conference.Had a great time there and met loads of lovely people. On Saturday morning we had lectures from Rachael Howard , Cas Holmes and Liz Spillane. Then on Saturday afternoon, everyone went off to their different workshops. I was lucky enough to get on Cas Holmes "Using the Found, Extreme Stitching" Workshop which booked out really fast. A small collage I started at the workshop  Cas Holmes had some really lovely samples that we could all look at and admire! Some of Cas Holmes work I spent the afternoon and next day working on altering paper, monoprints, rubbings etc. to make various collages. One of the collages I worked on One really nice thing about the conference, is that at the end everyone brings displays their work in the canteen area, so you get to see what the other workshops did! Here are some of the baskets made at one class. N...

About two weekends ago, I went to a 2-day workshop with Lynne Edwards. The workshop was "Patchwork Perspective". I went to the workshop with the intention of making a cushion cover, but got a bit carried away and decided to make a wall-hanging instead. The drafting of the pattern, cutting out freezer paper templates etc. took a lot of time so I only ended up with three blocks completed at the workshop. So, since then I've been making the rest of the blocks for the wall-hanging. This photo shows some of the blocks made by all the participants at the workshop. Finally got the top completed last night, so hopefully I'll get the quilting started at the weekend.

I did a workshop with Ferret back in March. The workshop was "Tulips" using a variation on a stack & whack technique. I got the top pieced together at the workshop so it just needed to be quilted. Finally got this wall-hanging quilted last week ago. But I still have a 2nd quilt from the Ferret workshop to machine quilt...