Light-shade 3

Bamboo frame covered with printed cotton cloth and velvet–about 45cms across.

Lamp-shade 2

Wrinkled tissue paper pressed and glued to parchment and stretched over a bamboo frame, with velvet trim. This was a good project if you like tying things together. It is about 50 cms across. The second shot shows light inside.

Arts and Crafts

Bamboo frame with calico stretched on it and then velvet patchwork–acrylic on calico centrepiece–about one metre wide.

It takes longer to stitch real stitches than to paint them but you cant beat the tactile texture of textiles.