Exploring Creative Textiles......

The variety and diversity of textile arts & crafts continues to inspire me. Last week I took a step away from traditional quilting to explore art quilting when I attended a 2 day workshop with the very creative & talented Lorraine Parker.  Lorraine practices a range of creative textile work and is a very experienced tutor, I recommend a visit to her website Creative Textiles

The workshop was titled “Paint & Free Surface Play”. We began with a blank canvas of white fabric on which we painted our own background colours providing us a wonderful canvas on which to express our ideas with fabric, yarns, threads and any other medium of our choosing. Lorraine shared her skills generously, guided and inspired us as we let the background colours "speak to us". This is Lorraine's beautifully embellished quilt.


Lorraine's completed quilt - our inspiration!



Lorraine encouraged us to approach our design with a free spirit & let the quilt to speak to us as we embellished with a variety of soft fabrics, yarns and delicious threads. She further inspired us by doing a bit of machine work on our individual quilts........... 

Of course in the time available we couldn't finish our projects. While our quilts are still in the early stages of design, what amazing creative possibilities await us as...............

I’ll let the photos tell their own story of emerging art quilts:

Suzanne's quilt




Caroline's quilt




My interpretation




Trish's interpretation

It was a wonderful workshop meeting new people, sharing skills and knowledge as well as pieces from precious fabric & yarn stashes.......... All this colour & creativity is good for the soul!!

May creative energy be with you! Until the next post, K ................