I’ve just added a new date for the Black Magic Workshop, 16th June and a new 2-day dye and print workshop on 4th and 5th August.
Ireland
February 15th, 2010 by ineke
Valentines weekend was spent in Ireland – teaching first in Kerry, then we Nikki drove us all the way through Ireland just north of Dublin, Drogheda. After the long drive I couldn’t wait to stretch my legs and walk to the beach, just in time to see the sun set and to find some gorgeous [...]
SCREEN PRINTING
January 20th, 2010 by ineke
THURSDAY 28 JANUARY at Bromsgrove Rugby Club A DAY OF SCREENPRINTING or half a day for half the price!! If you’re free why not come to Bromsgrove and have a great day printing your own fabrics. Start with plain and go back with lots of interesting textiles . The picture shows what I’ve done with [...]
Snowy Worcestershire
January 14th, 2010 by ineke
It’s still very snowy here and an ice cold wind. Still have to walk the dog everyday and I remembered to take my camera. This is the picture I will use for my January journal quilt. As I’ve been snowbound for a while I’ve had time to make it as well. First of course is [...]
CORNWALL
January 11th, 2010 by ineke
These are a few pictures of the sheer pieces that have gone on show at the Cowslip Gallery in Launceston, Cornwall. This is inspired by St. Ives One of my favourites – a VW sunset As always, tulips have to put in an appearance. Sunflowers in a vase to make you happy! and a landscape [...]
Happy New Year
December 30th, 2009 by ineke
I’m off to Cornwall to celebrate the New Year and also will be dropping off 20 new pieces for an exhibition at the Cowslip in Launceton. It’s on from the 9th of January. Wishing you all a very Happy 2010.
DVD
December 4th, 2009 by ineke
Just a quick update without pictures, to tell you about an exciting day I had yesterday filming a DVD called ‘Inspired Lutradur’ with Talking Threads. The DVD will be available early next year. It will show lots of different techniques and projects all using Lutradur. You will be able to buy copies of this DVD [...]
autumn
October 26th, 2009 by ineke
This weekend I was teaching in Cornwall at the Cowslip workshop in Launceton – a wonderful venue on a farm. We were creating landscapes using all kinds of different sheer fabrics, like organzas, metallic organza, painted different thicknesses of Lutradur, dyed scrim and some lovely hand dyes fabrics as well. This was my first sample, I [...]
august
August 26th, 2009 by ineke
Three days before the Festival of Quilts we ran a summerschool here in Bromsgrove. We dyed with procion and indigo, printed with de-contstructed screens and our own design thermofax screens, then had a go at discharging black fabric and overprinting it and even tried paperlaminating. As you can imagine – a very busy three days [...]
new book
August 4th, 2009 by ineke
My new book is finally here – I’m very excited as you can imagine. I’m having a booklaunch here at home next week Thursday 13th August from 11 am – 9 pm, so if you’re in the area please call in for a coffee, tea, cake or drink etc. Hopefully the weather is nice and [...]
Vendee
July 19th, 2009 by ineke
We’re still in France, weather has been glorious, but last three days a bit off. That means a bit of time to catch up with internet matters and plenty of time to do some stitching, painting and preparing for things at home. Also been catching up with my journal quilts and July here is inspired [...]
France
July 5th, 2009 by ineke
We’re in france – another month, another country. Lots of butterflies and bees and dragonflies. As you can see life is hard, having to sit by the pool and on the beach. I did do some teaching last week, with just one very happy student – we did some dyeing, printing and lots of sketchbooking. [...]
Sea fever finished
June 24th, 2009 by ineke
This week I finally got round to finishing a few projects. One of them is a quilt for an exhibition in Ledbury at the Weavers Gallery next week. All quilts have the theme ‘Sea Fever’, a poem by John Masefield. I put some pleats in giving the quilt some movement. I also made a quick [...]
Denim Bag Workshop
June 18th, 2009 by ineke
last week I ran the printed denim bag workshop at Bromsgrove Rugby Club, the results were fabulous as you can see. Jeans were put back together again, printed with a choice of numerous thermofax screens and coloured inks Then whilst it was all drying, handles, pockets and lining were constructed and by the end of [...]
Apeldoorn
June 3rd, 2009 by ineke
Whilst teaching at the group Tegendraads in Leiden, one of the ladies had made this jacket, cutting up a navy sweatshirt and stitching raw edged shapes onto it, as shown right. One of the nicest ones I’ve seen. I’ve been back a week but only just found time to catch upand have a look at [...]