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Why not make something?
annjrippin:Good thought for a new week. Originally posted on art for housewives : So why not make something? Handwork is a form of meditation. The focused attention keeps your mind from getting caught...
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The Art of Walking
annjrippin:I don’t do much about walking myself, but I know several people who read my blog are interested in it as a methodology, and might like this. Originally posted on The Art Book Review:...
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Battered and bashed and a lump in the throat.
annjrippin:I am sure some of you will have had a very similar experience. Originally posted on Chittle Chattle: Sorting some bits earlier I came across this An old tin. Battered and bashed, but I knew...
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Remembering Heather Hopfl
This is a slightly unusual post today. My very good friend and mentor, Heather Hopfl, died this week and this is a short tribute to her. A couple of years ago, my colleague, Mary Phillips and I...
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Janet Clare Workshop
I was very lucky last week to go to Janet Clare’s talk at Bristol Quilters and then to her workshop the following day. The talk was about publishing her books, and came in a series of talks we have...
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A big 400th thank you
Amazingly this is my 400th post. So rather than writing about my work, I wanted to say thanks to everyone who reads it regularly – and visitors, too. It means a great deal to me when people come...
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Quilted beauty
Just a quick post today. This lovely quilt is my mother’s friendship quilt made by her friends for a significant birthday. She lent it to me for my talk to the Bristol Quilters on Wednesday. The...
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Swapsies
annjrippin:Am I the only person not to have found this blog? If you are a quilter it is a really brilliant resource – a kind of encyclopedia of just useful things. Fantastic. Originally posted on Very...
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Allen Jones doesn’t know what’s happening* – the women Pop artists do!
annjrippin:This is a new blog from a good friend of mine, an art historian from UWE. I know her posts are going to be well-informed as well as fascinating, and would encourage you to have a look....
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 18,000...
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Garden Bloggers Foliage Day – January 2015
annjrippin:I will be back to blogging about my own work shortly. In the meantime, here is a lovely post on a blog I follow which has some fabulous leaves which might provide inspiration. Originally...
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van Gogh Green and Red Inspiration
I chose this slightly less well-know study of sunflowers for my red and green piece: We used straight stitches and then whipped them with contrasting colours. I thought my finished piece looked like...
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van Gogh inspiration purple and yellow part deux
This yellow and purple piece was based on experimenting with buttonhole stitch and detached chain or laisy daisy stitch. I really liked the delicacy of stitching into the buttonhole stitch with...
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van Gogh inspiration – neutrals
The prompt for this exercise was to use cretan stitch in neutral shades. I felt a bit of a cheat as I used some of my lovely variegated thread from Winifred Cottage (sadly no longer available), and...
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Really good news – Professor Marybeth Stalp to visit Bristol
Really good news – Professor Marybeth Stalp to visit Bristol.
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In A Vase On Monday—Snapdragons
annjrippin:This is a blog I follow, and I had to share the glorious reds in this post. It is always a lovely thing to see first thing on a Monday morning. Originally posted on pbmGarden: In A Vase On...
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You win some, you lose some
I came across Carla Sonnheim’s blog as part of a weekly challenge that I periodically dash to catch up with. Sonnheim has lots of ideas for doing art with children as well as stuff for adults and is...
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Finger painting 1
I have signed up for an on-line lunchtime course on finger painting. This is largely because I was so taken by the Richard Long finger print pieces in the exhibition on here in Bristol on his work. I...
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Happy New Year – and this blog revisited
I have been blogging now for quite a bit, and so to get a bit of a refresher, I have joined WordPress’s Blogging 101 tutorial group. The first exercise was to introduce yourself and/or to refresh...
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