Designing and Making a New Textiles Bag
Sewing a New Bag
Opposite: A close up of the detail on the front of my old bag. I've had my current bag for about 6 years now and I feel like it's time for a change. I'm about to become a new parent so I think I want something bigger and with pockets but I also want it to look fabulous and artsy too. I'm also not sure I want to be lugging around a bag with a heavily pregnant figure on it when I'm heavily pregnant. I'm probably going to come up with my old original pattern but in the lens below I've also co...

Fabric Stash Burning 2011
Using Up What I Have
If you've visted some of my other lenses you might have seen that I'm interested in using up a lot of what I have and decluttering my home. I spent last year sorting out my book collection which was crazy and driving me around the bend! I had so many books that I hadn't read (and I'd owned them for years) that I often found it overwhelming to choose one to read. Well, I got my book collection down to a good size of very cherished books and now I'm ready to tackle my next huge area of clutter...

The Melted Fabrics Book Store
Books about Textiles
I've written 5 books about textiles and the techniques I use (and 2 more books that are half finished) so I figured it was about time I made a lensography for them. I used to sell my e-books as pdf files on CD but now I sell them as downloads on Lulu.com - it's much quicker and cheaper and uses fewer trees! Melted Fabrics was my first book (named after my website and that I melt fabrics!). This book has all the info about the melting techniques I used when I was starting out experimenting w...