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The ladies of Grimsby Embroidery Group were all extremely well prepared for the “Chiffon and Lace” class on a gloriously summery Saturday in May.  Each arriving with their bags made up to the point where the Friendly Plastic needed to be added.  This made life much more interesting as I could offer them a choice [...]

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I have just finished this bag for the class I am teaching tomorrow in Grimsby.  Nothing like be well prepared in plenty of time!  I do have a collection of other bags, but unfortunately they got damaged in a shop window when I was taking a class last summer.  They look fine from a distance, but [...]

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Llanidloes, Powys
Thursday morning 7.30am, ready and packed.  The car jammed to the roof with everything I needed for my trip to Llanidloes and the Mid Wales Embroidery Group.  Three and half hours later and I was in Welshpool having a cup of coffee at the Old Railway Station -  a great place to stop, stretch [...]

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It has been a bit of a troublesome day today, and I won’t bore you with all the details except to say that it involved a large amount of deisel, the house alarm, the puppy, and a fair bit of mud.
All that nothwithstanding, I wanted to share with you the results of the Mask making class [...]

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Tomorrow I am going to help a group of ladies turn their creative fantasies into fantastical masks using some Friendly Plastic, a bit of fabric, and some imagination.  I love masks, they fascinate and apall me at the same time.  I love their decorative posibilities and the fact that Friendly Plastic is absolutely brilliant for creating [...]

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A few things you might not know about Friendly Plastic and other stuff:

Did you know that there is a Yahoo list dedicated to Friendly Plastic?  Click on the link and you can join a list of nutty folk who like to mess with FP.   It is quite quiet at the moment, so needs some livening [...]

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I would never make a proper diary writer, I have already missed two days of writing on the blog, and I only began it a week ago.  My excuse for last night was that I went out to dinner with the family after having spent the day teaching at the Bolton Embroiderers Guild.  I left [...]

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