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Happy Christmas!

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View to Falmer, Brighton. Hello, Happy Christmas!!! I am baking cakes, making a huge trifle and an even bigger pavlova. I'm sure you are all doing something similar. This is a short post to wish you all a very Happy, Restful and Enjoyable Christmas - I hope Santa brings you everything you wished for. For most of us I think it will be the rest that we look forward to - and the odd glass of wine and mince pie!!!! nid-noi.com is closed for the holidays now until January 1st. There will be a short window in which I can get orders out as I will be flying to New Zealand for three weeks - to teach - on January 7th. Sooooo - orders received between now and January 5th will be posted on January 6th at the latest. After that - no orders will be posted until February 2nd. You are most welcome to order products while I am away, but they wont be posted until February 2nd. I hope this doesn't inconvenience too many of you. That's all for now - the cake smells as

Kim's Open House December 2014

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My lounge, full of Lindsey Gibson's beautiful felt wall pieces. It's that time of year - we are all belting around - getting ready for Christmas.  Here in Brighton we have the Christmas Open Houses, we are about to have our second weekend.  This will be my last Open House in Brighton as I will be moving to Redditch in the Spring. The house is full of stunning work, It is worth all the clearing out to show off all this beauty. The website is - www.one2six.me.uk , how to find us is on there too. More of Lindsey's work . . .  and some of Annie's stars and angels . . . We have quite a variety of work . . .  Watercolours by Emily Jolley . . . Jewellery by Fenn and Co. . . . Stunning glass by Annie McMullan . . . .   Textiles for the wall by Sylvia Lynton . . . .   My friend John Culligan from France has sent over some gorgeous turned wood bowls . . . . This is one of John's yarn bowls - you put your ball of wool in the bow

Experimental Textiles - session 6 Colouring natural and synthetic fabrics

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  A cake and flowers for my birthday.   . . . and then another cake . . . !!! We are now over halfway through Experimental Textiles, this session was the sixth of nine. I have only ever taught one group at a time before, this year we are running two groups - a Thursday/Friday and a Saturday/Sunday. We will be doing the same next year. It is very interesting teaching the two groups side by side - they are both strong and are producing some excellent work. One thing that I hadn't considered was the air of competition creeping in between the groups. It is light hearted - but very definitely there!!! One of the benefits of having two groups - when the tutor has a birthday - you get two cakes!!!  When we are all settled with coffee (and cake) first thing on day one of the session - we look at what has been done for home work produced to reinforce what did on the session before. On the previous session we had looked at constructed textiles - felt, knit and weave, and how

Reclaimed Papers at Art Van Go November 11th & 12th

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 A very sensitive and subtle piece. This would make a beautiful cover for a tall night light/candle holder. You would just need to stitch a back seam to create a tube.  (Decovil 1 iron on interfacing, colourwashed with paper additions.) So, a busy week this week . . . .  Tuesday and Wednesday I was teaching a 2 day workshop at Art Van Go - Reclaimed Papers. It is great fun - you don't have to make anything that looks like anything - it is a great process. Just tearing and layering.  The group all cracking on. I love teaching at Art Van Go www.artvango.co.uk . It's a great space to teach in, plus I get to see Viv, Kevin and the team. This was my last workshop this year - and is was fabulous. The group worked really hard, and Viv and Kevin were on great form. Torn, painted newspapers torn and layered up with painted Bondaweb. This process is featured in my book Reclaimed Textiles - it's called 'Pretties and Background'. Once the pape