Boy, do I love my postman!!

There was more joy yesterday courtesy of my posty! I received this form saying that both my pieces had been accepted for an upcoming textile open. I am so happy about this, I honestly was so worried that my work wouldn't be accepted for loads of reasons, too big, rubbish photo's, too stiff competition, well I am now on a high, it truly made my day! So these two cloths will be on show to the whole world (well Lancashire) from september 13th. I had better check that the backs are neat!



I got slightly diverted from my creative path again yesterday. I was looking again at the lovely things Jude had sent me, I just couldn't appreciate everything with one look. When I saw these two particular pieces they were just crying out to have sections cut away and embellished.

On this photo you can see where I have cut. I have removed one of the solid areas that has 9 little circles in, edged the cut edge with buttonhole stitch and embroidered the centre with a needle weaving bar. There are quite a lot of images here but I wanted to see how it looked with different colours/patterns behind it.

On this one I cut away the little flower which is more visible in the second photo. I definitely think there are possibilities here to push this further and these little pieces will now go into my 'sketch' (that's a joke) sample book. Oh how I wish I had amazing sketchbooks.

I am working on the second panel of the crazy patchwork cloth and hope to have photos soon and there is also plenty of applique and cutwork going on so that I can expand the first panel. It's a real hive of activity here, but it's all good, I am having a ball!

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