Exhibition Days Away 2

In my previous post we had arrived in Ruthin.  The next morning after breakfast at Wetherspoons we had a wander around the town.

 

 

We were amazed to find that the public are allowed to wander freely around the grounds of the Ruthin Castle Hotel.

The Gatehouse

We moved on to the Ruthin Craft Centre to see the exhibitions there.  There was one room dedicated to the textile work of Matthew Harris.

And in a much larger space the exhibition Natural (Re)Sources which had work from 14 artists using a variety of different materials.

Work by Claire Benn

We then travelled to Ellesmere.   We had visited the town once with my parents but only remember viewing the Mere.  This time we walked along the canal and into the town.

After lunch at The Boathouse overlooking the Mere we drove towards Whitchurch, visiting Grindley Brook Locks on the way.

 We had a little walk around Whitchurch.

And then we drove home.

We packed a lot into our two days away!

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

FOQ Preview

It's almost time for the Festival of Quilts 2023.  It starts on Thursday but there's still time to get tickets.

In the Creative Textiles Studio, I will be showing and talking about my fabric books on the afternoons of Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.  I'm working at the Sales Table on Friday morning.

If you are a regular reader you will already know about my fabric books.  Here's a taster of what I will be showing.  Watch on YouTube if you need subtitles.

If you do come to the show do please introduce yourself.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Scroll book update

In Don't Scroll Past I showed you how far I had got with the scroll book I'm making.   I had started to stitch in random places.

One of the problems with deciding vaguely what the finished piece will be, is that things don't always fit.  I knew I was going to put a piece of wood at the top for the fabric to wrap around, but wasn't sure what that wood might be.

Then I remembered that I still had some bobbins in a drawer.  However when I got one of them out it was just to small for the width of the fabric.  It wasn't possible to make the fabric narrower unless I undid quite a bit of stitching.

Thankfully I have a very amenable husband who was willing to sort it out for me.  In the photo below, the top bobbin is the original width.  The middle one shows where he cut 1 centimeter of the spindle out and glued the bobbin back together.  He inserted the centimetre piece into the middle of the bottom one which is now the right size for the fabric.

I usually print on the fabric before I start stitching but I thought I would experiment with using the thermofax screen over the stitching.  It was more difficult than usually because of the lumps and bumps but not impossible.  You can find the words of the poem on the thermofax screen here.

I have attached the fabric to the bobbin.  I could continue to stitch the piece if I feel like it.

Fabric bonded to itself around the bobbin

Bonded to the bobbin

Partly rolled up

Completely rolled up

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice