A smashing sample of decorated, painted Bondaweb. I love teaching at Art Van Go , everyone is so well looked after. Even when the team are busy they find time for you. My workshop was a 2 day version of Hot Textiles. My basic workshop for learning how to use heat tools and how to distress synthetic fabrics.  It always amazes me how we start with an empty room, create mayhem, have lots of fun and then everything is tidied away at the end of the workshop and every one leaves. . . . and it's back to an empty room again. It's like magic! The teaching studio/gallery. The workshop was full with a waiting list which is always satisfying.  First of all we painted up all the products which took most of the morning. We painted Bondaweb, Tyvek and Lutradur. Painting the products and making notes. Tyvek drying on the floor of the studio. More painting.   Using Lumiere paints, scrummy. Painted Bondaweb ironed onto black cotton - just fabulous.

A fabulous print. I am slowly catching up with the blog, I taught at Art Van Go last week and am now up in Redditch teaching my ExTex 4 group. So there will be several blog posts coming up in quick succession. So - Design to Stitch for the Eastern Region Residential Weekend at Belsey Bridge conference Centre was booked almost 2 years ago - it was one of those bookings that had been in the diary for ages, and then came and went really fast. The added bonus was that my dear friend Wendy Dolan was also teaching there. We shared the journey over to Suffolk, Wendy drove which as you can imagine was a great relief. And Yes! We managed to get both lots of kit into one car. There some images of Wendy's workshop at the end of this post. Design to Stitch is basically my design workshop with more time to develop your prints with stitch. Painting the Journeys    Discussing the Journeys. The Journeys all lined up. A detail.     A selection of the exp