November sewing

 We have had a very mild autumn. The leaves are slowly turning to show us a last blaze of colour and we have seen a few misty mornings down in the valley. There is a cold front heading our way I believe, so I have loved any time I have been able to be out in the autumn colour and feel a weak warm sun.

In the last few days of October I attended a lovely workshop run by Linda at Creative Threads. The workshop was with Janet Browne. Above is some her wonderful work.

Janet guided us through her process and we all made a shed applique...We had lots of her work as inspiration (in the photo below)

This was mine...

The Red Shed.

and everyone did so well!

On the way home that day I bought this amazing bunch of dahlias from outside a house opposite the village hall. 

Jump forward a week and I am back at the Village Hall near Garstang at another of Linda's workshops.

This time with another amazing textile artist, Corinne Young.

Above are some of the examples Corinne had with her on the day.

We started with looking at a flower, I took a pelargonium as they really are one of my favourites.

Corinne had very kindly made some of the special paper for us to use on the day. We had a little tutorial and then we were off...

I really really enjoyed it, of course I didn't finish, no one did!

But didn't we do well?

I help out when I can for The Yorkshire Cat rescue. They were donated some duvet samples, they would make great cat beds so the YCR Crafters were asked to make some covers for them. I looked at my stash of fabrics and found two pieces of fleece and a lovely cotton print and made five covers for them I hope to do some more but it is getting so busy at school and with Christmas coming up I don't have much time.

So the machine has been put away for now and may not make an appearance for a while...but we will see.