Sarah Appleton - Textile Artist Blog

Howzabout my new range of birthday cards designed especially for nerds (it's OK for us to use that word to each other): Pink Power Ranger Zubat Ivysaur Krabby Caterpie My favourite of course being the Pink Power Ranger Kimberly Hart! Girl Power! V These are all unique, single items available in my Folksy shop . I can cardly believe how fun they are!

Ello Poppets! For those of you just joining us I attend a weekly craft club on Saturday mornings; so here's the latest projects I've been working on there: Flag Queen For the Jubilee we made Union Jack flags using applique and a stencilled cameo of some lady (if you want to read about my stencilling technique it's best described here ). I left my edges a bit rough and ready because that's my style. Then I wasn't entirely sure what to do with it next, so I gave it to my mum. Aww. Hippo to be triangle Nextily we worked on some bunting - we are lucky enough to be partially fuelled by donations from local people who no longer have a use for their old supplies so three of the fabrics I used were vintage ones picked out from our hoards! I used orange binding tape because I liked how it picked out the oranges of the fabrics and contrasted with the purples and blues. Yeah! Then I used some purple ric rac which I scored at a charity shop a few weeks ago on top of...