Inside the studio

At the moment, the studio is still a bit of a mess until the walls and ceiling go in but that won’t be until the electrician has been in next week. I thought of every reason why I’d need an electric plug – sewing machine, commercial overlocker, domestic overlocker, light box, iron, kettle, lap-top [...]

Another view of the studio and signal

This is another view of the studio showing how low the patio roof is compared to the wall of the building – it will have to go – this shot also shows Eddie’s railway signal which is the reason I got the studio in the first place. I wanted to move to a bigger [...]

Side view of Studio

Another view of the studio frame although it doesn’t look very big in this photo. The long window is on this south side looking into the garden while the door and smaller window face into the patio.

Studio – Work in Progress

I took this photo from our patio at 6 o’clock this morning to show the work in progress on the studio from when the two guys arrived at noon and left at 5pm. This photo shows the proximity to the end of the patio so that I can walk out the family-room door and [...]

Day One of my Studio

The two guys got to my place at lunchtime yesterday and this is what they acheived in just half a day. It was so exciting watching the girders and framework being put together. They arrived back at seven o’clock this morning and the sliding door is in place and they are working on the front [...]

My BIGGEST UFO quilt

This would have to be the BIGGEST UFO imaginable. I started making the hexagons in 1995 while on a plane between Australia and England and took lots of cut-out paper templates and pre-cut fabric shapes with me to work on while on holidays. I made the mistake of measuring the quilt from the floor [...]

Hexagon quilt UFO

This is another view of the quilt from the side of the bed. This photo shows the small area where I have begun to hand quilt each hexagon. It’s not particularly hard work, just awkward because of the large ring I am using to hold the quilt taut while I quilt. The quilt measures [...]

This is the meccano set which hopefully, one day…

This is the meccano set which hopefully, one day………sigh………might become my studio. At the moment it just consists of the welded wall frames and roofing trusses, roofing metal sheets, weathertex slats for the sides, gutters and downpipes and a box of bits which bolt it all together. This all arrived three weeks ago but [...]