Lesley Ruxton July 2011

After visiting the Sisters Quilt Show in Oregon
and filling 3 suitcases all labelled heavy by the airline this seemed appropriate for the title Travel
Free hand drawn, painted with acrylic paint free machine stitch.

Jane Panton - July

For July I used the word 'luxurious'. I started off with a piece of felt I made last summer on a course with Jeanette Appleton at Bankfield museum. It has been hanging around ever since! I free machined into it quite heavily and then sewed on clusters of beads. The original piece of felt has various threads and pieces of sheers embedded into it.

Jane Panton - June

This is the first  piece of our 5"x7" challenge and I am using the word 'garden'. For my inspiration, I spent a very wet but enjoyable morning at Warley Open Gardens. I used procion dyed binding tape and wove it to form the background. Then I free machined floral designs onto it and finished with a small amount of hand stitching.

2011-2012 Challenge

This year the challenge is to produce monthly a piece of work
size 5inches x 7 inches using the following themes.
Travel
Arches
Coast
Dotty
Passion
Culinary
Birds
Garden
Woolly
Luxurious
Memories
Cheerful
There are 12 participants

2010-2011 Challenge

Rachel Wade

The end of the Year.
The re arranged display will be at the Holmfirth Art Week.

Well done to all who contributed.

Gillian Travis

Lesley Ruxton

Jane Panton

Ruth Marns

Margaret Coop

Jane Panton - May

Turquoise is my remaining colour. I used foundation piecing to create the background. I cut out wavy, watery shapes from sheers with a soldering iron. I attached these using lines of machine stitching. Finally, I did some hand stitching using feather, double feather and cross stitch and I sewed on some beads.

Jane Panton - April

I layered up two squares of black cotton and a thick layer of wadding. I then machined with black thread on top and rubbed the tiniest bit of Goldfinger over the top surface.

Turquoise

final pieces

I have had a quick look through the blog and have posted the following coloured pieces
Brown
Purple
Blue
Black
Red
Grey
White
Yellow
Pink
so here are the last
ones

Orange

Lesley Ruxton May

Mauve for the last in this series.
paper dyed with procion dye, block
overprinting with white acryllic paint.
Free machine stitched.

Lesley Ruxton April

This month Yellow.
What else but chicks at Easter.
Procion dyed damask bondaweb applique.

Gillian Travis

February Purple

Lake District at dawn

Layers of sheer fabric with added machine stitching

Lesley Ruxton March

Hand dyed fabric.
Block printed with acryllic paint.
Retro flowers appliqued.

Jane Panton - March

On a visit to York Art Gallery recently, I saw an exhibition called The Honest Pot. I thought it would fit well for the colour brown this month. The background is a piece of space-dyed velvet onto which I appliqued the shapes of the pots. The pots are calico, coloured with Inktense pencils.

Jane Panton February

Pink for February. Using Heat n Bond I pieced together some scraps of hand dyed and printed fabrics and a piece of old Laura Ashley curtain material. I used waste canvas to embroider the cross stitch pinks.

Lesley Ruxton February

Turquoise
Design source William Morris.
Design applied with inktense pencils
then heavily machine Embroidered

Gillian Travis January Blue

I love to buy blue and white china from the charity shop

Gillian Travis December Black

We had a couple of days visiting some friends in Cambridge and had a day in Suffolk visiting Aldborough.
I loved the shack near the beach selling fresh fish.

Lesley Ruxton January 2011

This month's colour Pink
Inspired by Angie Lewin
Silk background with Silk applique.
Some free motion and some automatic patterning.

Jane Panton January

White for Janaury as we've had so much snow recently. Used no.10 Bernina foot to make tucks and then embellished with an assortment of white buttons and some pink thread for contrast.

Lesley Ruxton December

Red

Amaryllis
applique with free machine embroidery.