Thanks to Sandy (Dangling By A Thread) I had a wonderful day yesterday. She had arranged a workshop with Dijanne Ceeval, her good friend who is staying with her, and invited me along. I only live about half hour away from Sandy and this is the first time we have been able to spend some time together so that was a bonus too.
Dijanne showed us her technique of transferring colour to Lutradur and talked us through the amazing quilts she had brought along with her. She not only explained to us the stories behind the quilts, which was fascinating in itself, but also spoke about the techniques she had used.
I took some wonderful photographs but if you pop along to Dijanne's blog you can see them in much better detail.
She also let us use some of her amazing lino cuts to take rubbings of.
Two other friends also managed to get there Pat (Altering Thoughts) and Sue (Magic Armchair Traveller) - both had really long journeys and Pats was made even longer because her SatNav decided to have a bit of fun and sent her on a tour of the Suffolk countryside!
I just couldn't resist becoming the owner of one of Dijannes pieces of fabric. It is gorgeous and will hang on my wall just as it is until such a time as I can use it to its best advantage.
Speaking of workshops, I need to get my head down now to prepare for the one I will be giving at ArtVanGo on Thursday March 4th. :-)
Many thanks too for all the good luck wishes for the talk I gave last week. It went very well considering how nervous I was. Chelmsford Embroiderers Guild really are a very friendly bunch, They made me feel very much at home. My SIL David came along to help as he has to do a lot of presentations in his line of work and apart from DH, who doesn't have a choice, he is the only one of the rest of the family who is always very interested in what I do - maybe I should have wished for three sons instead of three daughters!!!
If you take a look at Sharnes' bitsnbobs blog here you can see me in action.
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