Sweet and Dirty

I haven't posted for a while about Dirty Denim - I have been stitching away in the studio making my denim patchworks.  The plan is that my second large work will be finished this Friday!  Stay tuned.  The exhibition will be going up on the 1st of December - Verity and I are now putting together some sustainable textile workshops to take place later this year.

Verity has some show and tell teasers!  She has been working on some gorgeous denim purses to sell.  Completely handmade from reclaimed materials.  She has used her distinctive and alluring screen printing design - I really love her design style.

Plenty of dirt on this patch

I do love sewing - although right now I am just not focused on getting things completed.  More kinda like I am plodding over old ground and scrambling for some rainbow rays to hit me and light my way.

This work below is a shot of work in progress for Dirty Denim.  Again using English Paper Piecing - usually I use Horse Hair - but for Dirty Denim I am using reclaimed denim! So many tones to play with.

 

This will be a large quilt stuffed with dried grasses (rather than a man made quilt lining) - and where I am wanting to go now is to use a previous drawing from a sampler pattern and transpose it into a large wall piece using the larger squares.

Perhaps I have a rainbow now - top of the season winter weather here - not a rainbow in sight.  Kinda like it is  spring already.