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a little look over some trinkets, contained chaos, a sprinkling of frivolity.... >                      a sparkling Moon over a jumbled wood

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2021/02/trinkets.html

I don't understand why I'm drawn to metal, in this instance corrugated tin, when it has peeling and flaking paint but I know I'm not alone in this judging from the most viewed/favourite posts on...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2017/02/why-strange-fascination-for-flaking.html

So to a quilting related mystery, this is an image of a painting, a print of which belongs to a friend of mine, she has not got any details about its painter or of whom the quilter is.  ...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2016/01/mystery-quilter.html

these images are part of a study on tea shops and cafes that I undertook for my BA in Textiles, where hearing threads of conversation made me think of beaded strings, the background layer was...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2015/12/playing-around-with-surface-pattern.html

I found these lovely chandeliers in a small Ludlow Antique and Vintage Shop last year, I especially loved the bejewelled fruit. These photos make my mind girl with images of silk embroidered...

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This is a post box situated at the entrance to a Country and Western venue near Warton in Lancashire, I have always loved miniature things and including miniature houses. I love its naivety and ...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2014/08/there-is-inspiration-every-where.html

I came across this rusted metal, probably a ships container,  thrown up from the sea while it hurled itself about during the winter storms along the North Cornish Coast. These shots are taken...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2014/03/metal-bent-and-rusted-by-force-of-sea.html

I love this crazy carpet, would so like it in my work room. I wonder where, if anywhere you could get it?  The £20.00 note is just there for scale…..I didn't drop it. This carpet is in ...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2014/02/patchwork-carpet-wonder-if-you-can.html

Well it was wonderful being a the Knitting and Stitch Show, with so many great memories of my time there.  I exhibited as a member of the Textile Bursary Group, with 10 of us at the show and the...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2014/02/just-remembering-harrogate-knitting-and.html

.. this mixed media piece was created from derelict teacups, fused into organza with heat and tied with thin but tough wire and made as a reference to the wonderful, older and through ad...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2013/10/some-of-textile-art-i-will-be-taking-to.html

I'm very much looking forward to being able to show some of my work at Gawthorpe Hall in Padiham, Lancashire on Saturday September 14th. Hope to see you there! http://www.gawthorpetextiles.org....

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2013/09/gwyneth-depport-artist-in-residence-for.html

I collect vintage textiles, mainly embroidered table and tray cloths or crocheted items, these photos are of one of my favourite pieces, a fairly small crocheted blanket, just 1m x1.5m. It a...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2013/04/i-collect-vintage-textiles.html

The Platform Gallery is a well respected gallery situated in lovely Clitheroe, Lancashire and I'm very pleased to say that one of my 'Conversation' pieces 'CLOAK' is currently hanging in the Pla...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2013/01/to-letter-exhibition-at-platform.html

I've enjoyed this project so far, I know it will be along time before I feel I have got everything I can from it.  I feel such a great affection for these mills and how they link us to the rich...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2012/11/some-intial-work-from-my-textile-mills.html

Here I am, making woolly gifts for Christmas, I've just finished a couple of crocheted scarves, the purple one in Honeycomb stitch and the red one in Double Treble stitch, (sounds hard but very ...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2012/11/im-mesmerised-by-patterns-in-my.html

I'm often looking up at buildings, admiring their structure, their architects and builders, wondering about the lives that have been lived inside their walls. Lately I've been a little obesesse...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2012/10/some-of-prestons-old-textile-mills-today.html

Whilst trying to squeeze time in for working on my beautiful daughter Rebecca's recycled 'Becky Attenborough Jacket' is like trying to teach my little dog to sing, almost impossible, but all the...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2012/10/ive-done-little-more-on-becky.html

First of all a BIG Thank You to everyone who attended the 'Turing's Textile Workshop' at Manchester Museum on Saturday 8th September, what a fabulous day!       a close up o...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2012/09/thank-you-to-all-lovely-people-who.html

Hi Peeps, Just to let you know that I will be delivering a workshop at the Manchester Museum on Sept 8th and am so looking forward to it. We will be taking inspiration from the Alan Turing exhi...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2012/09/hi-peeps-just-to-let-you-know-that-i.html

Not really understanding why, nor needing to I suppose, I feel very drawn to lobster pots and if I'm ever lucky enough to be near any I feel compelled to photograph them. Perhaps its the 'contro...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2012/07/contemporary-textile-art-from-sea.html

Yep, its Tea again, here is some surface pattern I derived from cups, teabags and strung teabags, the pattern being suitable for fabric, i.e. kitchen blinds, wrapping paper, place mats and ceram...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2012/07/something-else-about-tea.html

The outcome of this fun, mixed media project was to produce a wall mounted board with protrusions. I chose the sea for my inspiration, representing it by a 'close up snapshot' of a fish swimm...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2012/07/more-from-fish-board-sketchbook.html

here is a page from my Fish Board sketchbook..... the starting point is the photo (bottom right corner) which came from an old Aquarium magazine this would be a pattern I would consid...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2012/06/from-source-to-surface-pattern.html

I made this drawstring bag a while ago for the lovely Lizbet, for her allotment seeds. I did forget to get a photo of the complete bag, showing its wonderful dragonfly lining and still intend to ...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2012/06/early-bird-catches-worm.html

Now I'm finished with the Sketchbook Project I needed a new plaything and so have decided to start to recycle/upcycle an old jacket I found in a junk shop. My beautiful daughter Rebecca will be ...

https://textilequeenie.blogspot.com/2012/06/recyling-and-old-safariarmy-jacket-for.html