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Kimono Magic is a “Revelation Burning” workshop using a preprinted panel by Kona Bay Textiles and converting it into an individual piece of work. During the workshop we should get one panel completed and then you can go on to finish the others to make the wall hanging as illustrated.

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This is my favourite panel in the series of four, but it would take on a completely different look depending on the organza used or the details you decide to “reveal” Sewing machines and soldering irons at the ready and let’s go!

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Calling all Magpies!  Are you a collector of lace and buttons, if so this is the one for you.

This is a workshop to use up all those beautiful bits that you keep hoarding and adding to! The lace is dyed several shades of purple, stitched to a background and then embellished with treasures. You can bring your own pieces ready dyed or choose from the range of ready dyed packs available. This could be a hand workshop for those who don’t like machine work but it is obviously quicker by machine.

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Close up shows the lace scraps, buttons, bits of chain and fastenings collected over a period of time and now finally given a “home”

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New Workshop for the Autumn

Are you a Magpie like I am? Most quilters are and have a collection of Grannie’s precious buttons and lace just waiting to be used. We have some new “Rich Pickings” bags called “The Heirloom Collection” which will supplement the collections you may already have. This is an opportunity to use some of it up in a Heirloom project which will display your treasures to their best advantage.

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Close up of a section of the piece, showing sections of lace collars and silk flowers to make an antique looking picture.

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This wall hanging was made using the “Revelation Burning” technique and uses a batik panel from Hannah’s Room quilt shop, as the starting point. It is layered with acrylic felt, several shades of organza, and burned back with a soldering iron. It is heavily free motion quilted and embellished with beads. The driftwood is from a Cornish beach, but Polly now resides in warmer climes overseas.

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A close up view of Polly, showing the embellishment of silver thread and silver beads and the background quilting.

Polly was made in 2007.

THIS PIECE HAS BEEN SOLD TO A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

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I bought the main fabric with the chickens on from a French stall at Quilt Expo Barcelona and kept it in my collection as one of those fabrics you just do not want to slice up.I went to a workshop with the late Iris Eyles who taught me the basics of Broderie Perse,and inspired me to want to make several pieces using the technique.”Fowl Play” hangs in my kitchen and the technique proved to be the perfect medium for using up that bit of fabric that I couldn’t bear to chop up.

The background fabric is a printed chicken wire pattern which I quilted to give the backdrop texture.The main chicken in this photograph has a tail made from two layers of the same image which enabled me to leave parts of the top layer exposing the bottom layer which I frayed to create the appearance of feathers.The chickens are densely free motion embroidered using lots of different colours and weights of thread.

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The wall hanging features quite a lot of handwork which is unusual for me because if I cannot stitch it by machine then I usually avoid the project.If you have some lovely fabric that you cannot bear to cut then this may be the solution for you too.

“Fowl Play” was made in 2004