Here is more encouragement and advice to help you to make a stitch resist thistle. This one is not for beginners as it incorporates 4 different types of stitching and needs careful manipulation. I have made this design into a rather pretty lamp. This is a step by step guide on how to create a …
Straightforward Steps to Making a Shibori Stitch Resist Thistle Read More »
I held an inspiring and creative weekend indigo workshop recently with a group of felt makers down in deepest Devon. I want to show you the shibori on nuno felt created. It is gorgeous! It makes me want to get making some felt. We started the first day with making a number of small samplers …
What Everybody Ought to Know About Creating Shibori on Nuno Felt. Read More »
Beautiful weather, beautiful work on my latest shibori stitching workshop at Artisan Community Art Studio in Bournemouth this weekend. It is always interesting to see what particular aspect of shibori grabs people and this time it was definitely an interest in exploring stitch resist geometric patterns; circles and diamonds particularly. 6 very enthusiastic participants came …
A Sunny Shibori Workshop Exploring Stitch Resist Geometric Patterns Read More »
A friend was clearing out some of her books so I just had to look into her reject box and I found a beautifully illustrated book about William de Morgan design and his amazing colourful tiles. As so many of his tile designs are stylised natural forms it was a perfect inspiration for trying a …
William de Morgan Design Inspiration for Shibori Stitch Resist Patterns Read More »
Let me tell you about my latest workshop, wonderful and inspiring work was completed and I am just picking out 5 of the shibori design ideas to tell you about to excite and impress you! And hopefully inspire you too. This workshop took place on a Sunday in April at Frampton Village Hall here in Dorset …
5 Superb Shibori Design Ideas from the Latest Workshop Read More »
A month on from the week long fully immersive shibori retreat in Cornwall run by me and organised by Proper Crafty and I am letting you see more of the wonderful and inspiring work that was done. Today I am going to share the fantastic shibori flowers that were made. Ten keen and creative individuals …
5 Inspiring shibori flowers from my Cornish week long retreat. Read More »
Stitch resist shibori lends itself to making natural forms and patterns and particularly to these ammonite shapes. Today I am going to show you 3 different ammonite designs that you may like to make. Two I have created and one that was made on a recent workshop. Different colours dyed with indigo and fibre reactive dyes. …
3 Amazing Ammonites to Create in Stitch Resist Shibori Read More »
Back home in a rather cold Dorset following my week long fully immersive shibori workshop in Cornwall run by Proper Crafty. So much wonderful and inspiring work was done I am going to be writing a few blogs all about this week long shibori workshop to excite and impress you! Ten wonderfully creative, imaginative …
Letting you in on the secrets of a Cornish week long shibori workshop Read More »
As the 14th February was getting closer this year I decided I wanted to show how to create a heart shaped design in sophisticated tie dye stitching. This little design uses miru shibori, a way of working that involves folding the fabric in half and stitching a number of rows parallel to each other outlining …
Creating a Handsome Heart in Shibori Stitch Resist and Madder Dye Read More »
Here is a lovely little design to be made from Shibori stitch resist. I will explain how to do step by step. It involves three types of Shibori stitching, to get technical mokume, ori nui and maki-age Shibori! But reasonably simple when broken down into easy stages. This is quite a fiddle and complicated pattern …
Produce a Sunny Shell to be Proud of in Sophisticated Tie Dye Read More »