Tuesday, December 1, 2015

"Seeds from my Textile Garden" ...


This evening I'm giving a talk to a gardening club (specific details will be uploaded soon when my computer has come back from being upgraded!).


You may start to wonder what have textiles & gardening in common? My first thoughts were germinating on COLOUR (click this link to see what I mean) & secondly, what can be made using a variety of 'textiles'? Being near to Christmas, ideas were not short in appearing in my head!!! The next step was to gather existing samples together, make some examples appropriate for the evening 'project activity', decide on the 'goodies bag' contents (eg. ribbon at left) & give the evening a title. Predominantly inspirational, I decided on:
"Seeds from my Textile Garden"