Wonderful weekend (part one)

What a lovely weekend I had last weekend.

A whole two days of loveliness!

At Hope and Elvis on a Janet Bolton Workshop.

And as if that was not enough I stayed with the delightful Diane from Heartshaped on Saturday evening where she played the perfect hostess!

I think because of it being such a BIG event I might have to split this post into two and do a part one and a part two.

I drove down early on Saturday morning.
The fields were glowing red with poppies.

The lovely Janet talked first about how she started in Textiles, and although she lives in London now she still has a lovely Lancashire accent.

Then she explained about building the canvas to work on.

And then play with shapes.
Here are a few of the others,

There are some very talented ladies out there.

Janet showed us how to do needle-turned applique.

 Her work is so small and detailed it made my sheep look like it was on steroids!

 It was stiflingly hot though on the Saturday but Louise had a treat for us!

Then at about 3pm it started to spit and we all rushed out to stand in the cooling rain....then it got heavier and heavier and then the rain turned to hail....BIG hailstones were bouncing into the room through the open doors!

Hailstones!

And before I knew it....it was time to leave. But for once I was not sad because I was off to stay at Diane's house and have a lovely evening with my friend and I was coming back to Hope and Elvis the next day!
Part two to follow.............