Painted Vilene Spunbond CS 800 with Bondaweb ironed onto the back, cut with a soldering iron and ironed onto black cotton - basically applique - just using a soldering iron to cut the fabric as opposed to scissors. This technique can only be done with synthetic fabrics - soldering irons will not cut natural fabrics. After the joys of the Creative Fibre Festival  (www.fibrefestival2012.blogspot.co.uk do have a look and scroll right down) I taught a 2 day workshop - Extreme Surfaces for Stitch - Because some of the students weren't aware of some of the basic techniques we started right at the beginning so we ended up with more of a Slightly Less Extreme Surfaces for Stitch. The main thing is the students got the information that they needed.  Painted Bondaweb and various weights of Vilene Spunbond drying .  I thought Alison's plastic apron was particularly fetching - on the right . Denise my minder mucking about for the camera on the left and Christi

One of the many beautiful rocky beaches along the coast road from Christchurch to Blenheim as the sun goes down. I will have to make this a three part post, I have so many images to show you they won't fit into one. I had so much fun with the wonderful ladies that took part in this festival that I forgot to take some general photos of the festival - to get a flavour of this amazing event go to their blog and scroll right down. fibrefestival2012.blogspot.co.uk The Fibre Festival was a very well organised event by a team of very dedicated volunteers. The ones I can remember are Joan, Chris, Christine, Jan, Nancy, Judy and Wendy - I think there was one other lady and I apologise - I cant remember your name. The team all had their various jobs to do and I think I can safely say I have never been to such a busy and very exciting event that ran so smoothly. I flew into Christchurch on April 25th and was met by Denise. We had never met, but go on immediately - she