Strips of transfer printed fabric bonded onto a background and free machine stitched. Happy New Year everyone!!!  I hope you are all well and feeling suitably rested?? Ha Ha !! Maybe not - but hopefully you all enjoyed the break - those of you that had one.  I taught the 7th session of Experimental Textiles at The Old Needle Works over the weekend. We looked at using metal on Saturday and painted Bondaweb and Tyvek on the Sunday. It was just the weekend group this time - The Thursday/Friday group will have 2 sessions in February, we thought it was a bit much for them to have a session on the 1st and 2nd of January!!! The weekend was a 'students choice'. There are 2 sessions within the 9 when the students can negotiate what they would like to do/learn.    Lots of excitement and laughter as the group arrive - they haven't seen each other since November.    Mary kindly brought in fruit - rather cake . . .  Once the girls had se...