One of the wooden printing blocks we will use for  the metallic printing workshop. This time next year I will be at Heathrow airport ready to fly to Jaipur.  Whhooo hoo!! it is VERY exciting! I am going back to Jaipur, India, to be inspired by the remarkable textures, patterns and colours.  While I was wandering around this amazing city in on the Colouricious Textile Holidays in September 2016 and again in January 2017, I kept thinking to myself this would be the most incredible place to teach my journey design exercise. Everywhere you go there is something beautiful, interesting or just plain incredible. The palaces, the gardens even the roadside has inspiration at every turn. So - I approached Jamie Malden, owner of Colouricious Textile Holidays with my idea and she Yes! - immediately. Just like that. Isn't a good feeling when people have faith in you? I am leading The Jaipur Journey textile holiday January 8th - 18th 2019  Fancy coming with me? Here is

 Cutting Edge Textiles A very hard working and exciting group based in Ngaruawahia.  I had been looking forward to seeing Margherita Alan again. We first met when she attended one of my classes at the excellent Quilt Symposium in Palmerston North in 2015. Since then we have be organising this workshop and the one following.  Finally we are here - and it has happened - what a fabulous 2 days we had. The workshop was The Journey into Printing Blocks.  Just look at the size of the room we had to work in - and all the materials and tools were so organised, just brilliant.    Margherita is on the far left of this photo - she could hardly contain her excitement over the 2 days - she was a joy to watch.  The group getting stuck into The Journey.  Starting to build up the lines and marks.    Admiring the finished Journeys all lined up together.   The Journeys.  The Journey is my own design exercise that I developed teaching Experimental Textiles. I