Taking Liberties at Art Van Go.

I have just heard from Pauline that our exhibition is being extended again, and will be at AVG until April 1st.

Parents evening tonight meant that I was late home from work.  Too tired to do any machine stitching, I did some work on my calendar challenge journal so it is up to date and got all the requirements needed for FET on Saturday.  It does not seem possible that our exhibition at Art Van Go finishes on Saturday, where did that month go?

Art Van Go

 Today was an early start to get to Art Van Go for the Open Day, as it was the first Saturday since our exhibition opened.  My sheer flower panels were hung against black glass, and this really made the colours zing.

 Some more of my work on display.  Below is just a taster of what else you can see is you can get to Knebworth.

 This was Margaret's work, inspired by Brighton Pavilion.

Chris loves St Ives and spends her holidays there beach combing.  She used all the bits she has collected over the years to make her fish on a background of handmade felt.

 Sheila was inspired by a visit to London.

Just a small picture of Nickie's hanging, it is so long that I could not get a full length picture of it.  Her piece is inspired by the poem 'Jonathan Seagull'.  There is more to see but Blogger wouldn't let me upload any more for some reason.
After I got home, I started painting a bit more of my foreground for Che.  It has now been decided by Rhodri, that he would like it bigger.  Back to square 1.

Here is a photo of my painted background.  I need to apply some more black to the foreground before I can do anything else.  That will hopefully be this evening, today it is off to Art Van Go for our Open Day :0)

Taking Liberties.

I heard from Pauline our Mentor for FET, that the hanging of our exhibition at Art Van Go went well yesterday.  Today it was open to the public.  I wont be able to show you any photo's  until Saturday, when we have our Open Day. If you are in or near  Knebworth, I would love to see you.
I have nearly finished stitching the little boat for Josh, my other Grandson.  My next project will be a wall hanging for my son, Rhodri. 

Taking Liberties

Not only has our exhibition been extended by a week, but on February 12th, at Art Van Go,Knebworth, we are having an Open Day 9.30-2.30.  You will have the chance to meet the members of Fen Edge Textiles have some drinks and nibbles and of course, a chance to see our work.

Visiting.

I am still suffering with the wound on my thumb,  stopping me from being able to stitch ;0(  I think because I keep trying to stitch, I keep opening the wound.  Instead I have been doing  bit of blog hopping around the OWOH event.  What a lot of talented people there is out there!  Such a great way to find blogs that you wouldn't normally happen across too!!
I heard tonight, that our FET exhibition at Art Van Go is going to be extended by a week until the 12th March :0)

Time to play.

A lovely day at Cottenham, everyone has been very busy creating their work for our AVG exhibition.  It's a good job we went in Nickies car, as we would not have got all our work in my little car!  I cant wait to see everyones work in situ.
Nickie and I have also booked to do a 2 hour workshop with Marion Murphy at TIF in February, and then we will be demoing in the afternoon.  Not sure what I shall be doing yet, so need to get my thinking cap on.
Kezzy and Mitch are partying tonight and Hubby is cooking the evening meal, so I should, in theory, have quite a lot of time to stitch:0)

Getting ready

Nickie and I have our F.E.T. meeting tomorrow and we have to take all the work that got through round 1 of selection for our exhibition at Art Van Go.( Not long now!!)  That being the case, I have spent my evening getting my work together.   It is surprising how long it takes!

Light bulb moment????????Not sure

We have our EG Branch AGM next Monday, so I have been trying to get all the paperwork sorted  early, just in case I have overlooked something.
Jimi is on the back burner temporarily as I have our FET meeting on Saturday.
We have been asked by Pauline to go with our sketchbooks with ideas for our next project ready for our next exhibition at AVG.  I would like my next piece to relate to my previous work of either the black and white vessel or my flower panel and I couldn't decide how I was going to do this. I have had several trains of thought, but nothing that felt right.  This evening I had an idea, so I have been busy drawing up  pattern ready to stitch tomorrow evening. At least I might now have a sample to show in Saturday.  I will show photo's as soon as I have completed my sample.
Rhodri, my son has just been in to my playroom to see me.  He wants ME to make him a piece of textile art!!!!  I cant believe it!!

Exciting news.

I had some good news today via an email from Pauline Verrinder, our mentor for FET, we have had confirmation that our next exhibition will be at Art Van Go in February.;0) We wont have long to get our work together with Christmas on the horizon. Talking of Christmas though I would rather not, when I went to the Nursery last week for some plants they had there Christmas grotto already in place-far too early!!!!!!!

Textiles in Focus

I have wasted a fair bit of time tonight trying to put a Blogger gadget on my side bar- I have nearly thrown my teddy as Blogger has not been behaving!

Anyway what I am trying to tell you all, is that Textiles in Focus have released details of the Lecturer-Isobel Hall and the workshops. The workshops are for 2 hours and the tutors include Gina Ferrari, Myfanwy Hart and Viv Arthur to name but a few.
AND

Trade stalls to spend your Christmas money

AND
Exhibitions by MESCH, Threadsx4 and ERTF.

It should be a great event!