Remember our Family Textiles? Cushions completed!

We had colourful fun trying to create some new posh cushions for our sofa ... Here is Daisy's Tiger, painted and with pastel detail added ...

And Mary's Meerkat featuring a nice bold green outline. 

And Matty's Fox, also showing great colour mixing and shading too. 

You dont have to encourage me to be colourful, the top i was wearing in the photo this was drawn from is almost that bright pink. 

Then we all tried quilting for the first time, and I began to make the art into actual cushion covers using a fun table cloth I found second hand.

Mary sewing and keeping a nice tension on her running stitch ... She is now 7 years old and very fond of sewing ...

Matty May and Daisy can now all enjoy a new cushion when reading books on the sofa ...

My own cushion receives approval by Salt Ferret herself! so much so she stayed still long enough for a photograph!

And Owls Need Wings!

Goats in Coats ....

to be honest I only iron craft work, never actual people sized clothes!



Natty waistcoats for natty steam-punk goats, with fiddly watch-cogs sewn on with invisible thread!



I think they rather like them, i am quite fond of waistcoats myself!

Yesterday we went to the Library ...

and you can go too if you like ...



An Artwey community project for 2012 is getting a bit of a preview, with workshops and inspiration ... So here is a portrait by Matty to inspire others!



The giant wall will be made up of textile pictures of inspiring people such as these, Daisy made this image, of her inspiring Home-Educated friend!



And even Mary too tried her hand at free-machining and hand stitching, along with the fabric pastels we used too.



You can see our work on the washing line, and find out more about The Giant Wall ...



And we also contributed to the visitors book, and chatted with clare, stewarding!

in my dining room ...

a red themed 'art for the hands' mat ...



a nice cheerful blue one ...



wait a minute, whats that on the calendar?



The little-misses-february, it's us!

these two mats are ready to meet the public at the Sue Ryder Care Art Exhibition at the library for easter week ...

WIP - Art For The Hands ...

do you use your ironing board as a table ?


wow, neat writing on the blackboard, i could have been a teacher! haha ... the girls like my writing and point out how steve's is a bit wrong sometimes e.g. r's with flat tops instead of nice curves ...

mary can count to three, so she enjoyed these three shiney buttons ...



you can see this mat, and another to go with it at the Sue Ryder Care Art Exhibition next month.

cat themed art for the hands mat ....

this is tactile mat number 4, another one for june ...
i hope her friend likes it ....

artwey art trail - the full gamut ...

daisy, matty and lisa trying out the chairs ...



textiles by ingrid ... i will be stewarding with ingrid later today ...



and some of my work of course ...
hello harris !



i bought something nice to take home - and i used it this morning, too !



after or before you visit the gallery, you can walk or cycle on the rod well trail.
here we are, looking back down at the shop from the bridge ...

http://www.fullgamut-artgallery.co.uk/