A Challenge and Chocolate

It was a lovely day at the ERTF conference yesterday and a great opportunity to meet and chat with lots of like minded people. I was particularly excited because I won a prize! There had been a members challenge to make a piece of textile work inspired by an image of a printed fabric taken from the Warner Textile Archive. I had done this and sent it off weeks ago so had pretty much forgotten about it. I haven't got the original image used for inspiration but this was the resulting embroidery.


It was a low relief 3-D piece worked on felt using the embellisher machine and then stiched into quite heavily with free machining which caused the surface to distort. I have to confess that it wasn't that well planned but I needed to get it done in a hurry before I went to Jersey. So imagine my excitement to find I was one of the prize winners especially as I've never won anything like this before. Part of my prize was a set of postcards. These have been made to go on sale at an exhibition of the work later this year.

And the other part of my prize was these....

Which seem to be disappearing fast!

I think I'm going to make the most of the sunshine and work off all those extra calories in the garden this afternoon. And although I'm sure you won't be the least bit interested, I'll leave you with a picture of me working at Art Van Go on Friday, taken by Mavis. I do enjoy my work but it's good to have some time off too!