Its been a hectic day so I’ve not had too much time to work on the quilt. I’ve prepared the appliqué on the pigeon on the bottom of the quilt and its rather wild… but it needs to be for the technique I’m going to use on this quilt.

Time to work and I’m using my photos to create images in fabric.Realistically its not a whim… I’ve been designing these projects on the road and this project, “Darn Pigeons” I will share the techniques as I create the quilt.I began with the image below. I printed it out to the…

After 3 months of working, traveling, learning, creating, experiencing, laughing and very occasionally crying, I get to go home for 5 weeks and be a mum, a wife, an artist  and play with the most important people in my world, the Grandies. Lily Kaiden…

 I often fall into a theme when I’m photographing… to day it was the images of the buddha, especially the hands and the lotus offerings. The images above  were taken at a meditation Wat in Chiang Mai. Images from the temple, Wat Pho in Chiang Mai

I’ve been asked if I will sell some of the Textile pieces I’ve bought. I’m considering buying pieces for sale on my web page for those who are unable to come here. Sometime next year. It was my last visit to the Hmong textile ‘sheds’ today. This is my 3rd visit on this trip and…

Wat Rong Khun, or the White Temple , is no ordinary Buddhist temple. Whereas most temples have a history dated back many centuries, the construction of this ornate white temple only started  in 1998 and is still a work in progress.  The temple is designed by renowned Thai visual artist Chalermchai Kositpipat, who often refers to it…

I’m writing this as we travel high in the mountains, the road twists like  a grey ribbon through lush green tropical forest.Every now and then you catch sight of terraced rice paddy guarded by  small brown teak houses.The mountains are steep and  the ridges across the valley are dark, blue mysterious and often shrouded in…

I‘ve been turning over a question in my mind. If I use a piece of fabric in a quilt that was embroidered by another person, does it make it a two person quilt?I’m using the embroidery as a background fabric base for my project. Is it any different to a hand dyed fabric created at…

A boat ride out into the mud flats, mangroves and shallows of the Gulf of Thailand. was one of the highlights of our trip to Bangkok. It a huge expanse of water fringed by river  fingers of mangroves. Monkeys live in the leafy green hosts of the trees, they dig for cockles and crabs and…

This is a piece of Indigo dyed hemp that I found in an antique textile warehouse yesterday. I don’t have any books on the techniques of appliqué with me of course and I can’t find much on the net, but I will go to the textile museum here later in the week…