It was only a short drive from Bickerton to Whitchurch where my delightful host Jane Rylands lives. I could not quite believe my eyes when we pulled up in front of her house, and you can see why: It is more than 300 years old, timber framed and simply glorious with all sorts of nooks and crannies inside, [...]
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Cheshire Borders Embroiderers Guild Part 1 – Lace
Posted in classes, friendly Plastic, Lacework, Other Peoples work, Teaching and Talks, tagged Cheshire Borders EG, classes, embroiderers guild, lacework, teaching, workshops on April 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This week I spent a wonderful couple of days with the Cheshire Borders Embroiderer’s Guild in Bickerton between Nantwich and Wrexham, a part of the world I have never explored before. Tuesday morning was their regular meeting, and I gave a talk about how Friendly Plastic and my textiles have been woven together over the years, and [...]
PlayAway 2012
Posted in Bead Making, Book Making, Events, fibre art, friendly Plastic, Just Stuff, PlayAway, Polymer Clay, tagged Adrienne Goodenough, adrienne wood, annie mackay, mary whittaker, neet hickson, PlayAway, tenbury wells, wendy kirk on March 10, 2012 | 8 Comments »
I can’t believe that I have just spent 3 whole days away indulging myself in good company and creativity at an experimental PlayAway in deepest, darkest Worcestershire. As you can see from the photo below, it was a select group of 6 (Annie Mackay, Mary Whittaker, me, Neet aka Anita Hickson, Wendy Kirk and Adrienne Wood) [...]
Friendly Plastic Beads and Farewells
Posted in Bead Making, Collaboration, Colouring FP, foils, friendly Plastic, Gloss Coatings, jewellery, Linda Peterson, recycling, tagged beads, envirotex lite, gloss coating, Linda Peterson, pandora beads on January 26, 2012 | 14 Comments »
Sadly the fun has come to an end. I took Linda and Mariah back to the station today so they could return to London. I was sorry to see them go, we had had such a good time, tried out a number of different things in Friendly Plastic and Polymer Clay (Linda gave me a quick [...]
Hotel Chocolat, Primark and Friendly Plastic
Posted in Bead Making, Collaboration, Experiments, friendly Plastic, jewellery, Just Stuff, Linda Peterson, Other Peoples work, tagged beads, envirotex, hotel chocolat, Linda Peterson, pandora, Primark on January 24, 2012 | 7 Comments »
It is absolutley fabulous to have Linda Peterson and Mariah, her daughter who are over from the States share my studio and collaborate on new ideas for Friendly Plastic. We have been working on a number of ideas, but most of the drizzly dark day has been taken up with perfecting our technique for making Pandora [...]
February Friendly Plastic Class
Posted in classes, friendly Plastic, Husqvarna, Nolitex, Teaching and Talks, tagged book, class, coles, easton walled gardens, little book of secrets, paper, secrets on January 17, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Do you fancy a bit of messing about with Friendly Plastic on February 11th? I only ask because you can have a play about with FP in my company at Coles Sewing Centre (formerly Husqvarna Studio) in Nottingham. We will be making a Little Book of Secrets using a nifty folding technique and some fun [...]
Fine Lines and Website Issues
Posted in friendly Plastic, Information, Rare Bird, tagged curls, email, fine lines, patchwork, plane, stripes, web site on January 12, 2012 | 9 Comments »
It has been hard to get back in the studio after Christmas and New Year, not least because all every time I pick up something, particularly a Craftynotions product, it reminds me of Sarah, and then I spend my time thinking and not doing. However the other reason for not getting cracking is the totally chaotic [...]
Boundless Beads and Just Jewellery
Posted in Bead Making, classes, Colouring FP, Focal Beads, friendly Plastic, jewellery, Other Peoples work, pellets, Teaching and Talks, tagged beads, classes, coles sewing centre, husqvarna studio, jewellery, peeloffs, rubons, tubeads on October 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It was only a couple of weeks ago, but it feels more like months that I was teaching two classes at Coles Sewing Centre (formerly Husqvarna Studio – same people, same everything, just a different name) In Nottingham. The first day was dedicated to learning how to make a variety of Friendly Plastic beads, round [...]












