After a very busy summer with a family wedding and lots of company, I am back in the studio. With so much time off I need to re-establish...

On the ferry, crossing to Saltspring Island for the day: to visit Articulation member, Shannon Wardroper's home and studio, to check out...

Articulation members at work; Lesley Turner, Donna Clement, Ingrid Lincoln, Leann Clifford, in the inner harbour. The Empress Hotel is in...

Each year Articulation does study in a special place in Canada. This year they are in Victoria researching the maritime history of the...

While on a 'Girls' Weekend' at the ranch we did some Bengala dyeing. Rose and Kerry tie stones into a tea towel. Norma kneads a white...

A friend gave me 2 lengths of lame-type fabric. One had this label. A search of the name revealed Bucol has been a famous silk house in...

The Fairy Ring mushrooms, lichens and bark had been wrapped in a wool blanket for over month. It was time to take the bundle down to the...

One of the morning exercises was to analyse different patterns and to find examples of different types of patterns to put in our Pattern...

Each day I have continued to repair the bead work on this dress. The weekend started out warm and breezy - perfect conditions for...

The students have spent the past couple of weeks learning how to make repeating patterns, developing their own designs then using them to...

This wool blanket is  special. It was produced in the UK sometime between 1941 and 1952 when the government set strict standards for UK...

For a while I have been thinking about dyeing with fungi and lichens.  When the fairy rings appeared in the lawn I took it as a sign....

In the 2nd lesson of 'Pattern Design for Artists' we begin exploring linear repeating patterns. After making a quick stamp to trial a...

I spent 2 days getting the Victoria College of Art's Lower Studio ready for teaching in this spring term. This is the before shot. Day 2...

There was a collection of other things in the box I won at the auction. A large printed table cloth and 2 plates.... One is a rather...

The 3rd treasure I spied in the box at the auction was this neatly worked Russia icon-like embroidery on a cloth hemmed at one end and...

I had a successful bid at Kilshaw's auction house this week. In a cardboard box I had my eye on 4 textiles in particular - this NW Indian...

Making another in the Synesthesia series. The sample looks right though the ground could do with a little more stabilising. Coming along....

While spring cleaning I gathered up all of the wool threads from pre-owned kits I had collected, having taken the fabric out for other...

Sorting threads and yarns into 24 colour hues. Each pile gets put in its own bin. The stage where things look worse before they start...