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...

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 ...

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 i...