Textiles at Aquinas College Adult Ed

I saw this lovely stained glass window in Chester Cathedral today. Very appropriate for an Aquinas College post! Enjoy the Easter break everyone!

Just beautiful 😍 A stitched piece that has evolved over several lessons. Well done!

Interesting range of work tonight!

Interesting colourways tonight!

Who knew what you can create with scrap threads and fabric fragments?:Exciting!

Lots of creative energy in the classroom tonight!

Fragments, threads and stitching. Have a great half-term!

What a creative evening 👌 Well done ladies!

Really interesting use of water-soluble stabilisers tonight!

Nest : Woven

Detail of my work for the forthcoming exhibition UNmaking with

The nest (probably a blackbird’s) was found on my allotment around the time I took the plot on, in autumn 2017. I kept it in the shed ever since, waiting for a suitable way of exploring and celebrating it. Unmaking the nest felt reminiscent of dissecting owl pellets, to identify what the owl had eaten. Now I could see what materials this bird had used. On sorting through and deconstructing the nest, categories of material were identified, leaving some loose and fragile debris. Material strong enough was re-constructed to form a kind of ‘flat pack’ version of the nest.