Selvedge too!

... and a lovely mention in the current issue of Selvedge Magazine too promoting Select Spring 2013 including a beautiful picture of Louise!

Another pic from our show ...

the travelling bags!

Susi's wonderful bag made by Louise - a Japanese styled shape with faded beauty in the fabric
Here it is in the garden...

and you can see my added button detail - the flame orange vintage twisted silk...

You have seen Alison's bag by Louise - here they are in an unusual place - they travel regularly every week to Save the Children in Bath where both of us volunteer!

bags from the tailors fabric

Here are a selection of bags I have made with fabric from the tailors shop. As you can see I am trying different shapes and sizes!

New and exciting work from Louise Watson...

Another month, another bag for the Brunel Broderers using the fabric from the tailors shop.

The intention is to make one each for each borderer!

This work is for the Broderers 2013 exhibition entitled "Suited"...more to be revealed as the work progresses, each Broderer has an amount of fabric, fastenings, findings, buttons and suchlike from a fabulous tailors shop in Woodmancote that had long lay dormant. We all intend to manipulate, alter, bring to life the wonderful fabrics that tell such stories and hold such history.

Louise has been working on bags, of varying shapes, sizes and patterns, these bags will go on journey between now and the exhibition, who knows where and who with...

Beautiful Boxes!

Here are some of the new boxes I made with my embroidery class Autumn Term 2011.
We had a great time creating them - with inspiration from Janet Edmunds' and Jane Lemon's books on embroidered boxes.

Louise's moths

...beauty in miniature,

fluttering wings of soft powdery moths and vibrant butterflies,

delicate stitching and intricate detail...

new work by Louise Watson...

A peep before the show!

 Just back from our last meeting today before starting to put up our show 'Curiouser?..' at The Silk Mills Frome ready to open at the end of the week! Watch this space...

Take a peep at a few tempting close ups

Linda Babb

Liz Hewitt

Louise Watson

Painswick Exhibition

The Glos Guild of Craftsmen Summer Exhibition in Painswick finishes this Sunday. Last chance to see my collaboration work with Rosemary Cochrane!

Collaboration in Painswick

The work from the Cardiff Exhibition, Material Connections, will be on show at the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen Exhibition in Painswick from July 30th - Aug 21st. Rosemary Cochrane's work and mine will be shown alongside each other, so if you missed it there is another chance to see it! Sketchbooks and E-mail book to explain the developments. I will be there all day on Friday 19th August stitching away so please come and introduce yourself!
This piece sold in Cardiff so won't be there! All details on the Guild's website.

Miniature Gardens

On Thursday 23rd at 12.15 I am going to be on Radio Gloucestershire talking to Anna King about my miniature gardens. Here are some pictures so you can see what we are talking about!

Collaboration Exhibition

Pictures of work from the collaboration between Rosemary Cochrane, a potter from Usk, and myslef.

The Exhibition is at Cardiff in the Bay Makers Guild Gallery. It finishes on the 26th June so do visit if you can!

Birmingham Embroiderers Guild

Louise recently did a very successful workshop for the Birmingham Embroiderers Guild called 'Little Boxes'.

They have a new blog and if you would like to see images and a write up of the day please click
here

Louise's collaboration

Louise is doing final preparations for the collaboration exhibition.

Private View Friday 6th May, Exhibition 7th May - 26th June

Open every day 10.30 - 5.30 every day

Craft in the Bay, Cardiff in the Bay CF104QH

'Curiouser'.....? Louise Watson

Artists Statement for “ Curiouser…..?” Silk Mill - Frome Sept 2011

For the “Curious Drawers” exhibition (May 2010) I made a sketchbook and chest of drawers after studying insects, looking specifically at butterflies. Last Autumn and this Winter I took moths as my theme and my work has pared down in colour and techniques. I have made drawings in pencil and ink developing the concept of fragility and ephemera. The folded creases of a moths wing suggests concertina shapes and possible sculptural forms. I intend to produce a white drawer and a small white chest inspired by moths.

Louise Watson. March 2011.

More on pom poms!

As you see here we are, with fans (the boys), in the Star Anise Cafe in Stroud discovering a quick and easy way to make miraculous pompoms. This is part of the Pom Pom Project that Alison is devising with Textile Forum South West as a way to 'map' where textile people live and to bring people together to share skills and enjoy 'making' together (and chat and have coffee and cake).

All will be revealed for this project at the TFSW Conference in Taunton on Saturday 26 March - see here .Get your ticket now!

As for more pompoms for the BB's - well, it involves a birthday cake and a new exhibition - details coming at the end of this month.

POM POMMING!

Yesterday some of the BB's were in the Star Anise Cafe in Stroud making pom poms..

Alison's idea - so here she is with those we made earlier! More images later and an explanation as well as BB

birthday news..

Collaborations

This is a very small piece, recently finished, called Winters Walk - part of a body of work in progress for the collaborations exhibition beginning May 7th at the gallery Cardiff in the Bay.
Louise

New Work

Thrilled to pieces with this small hexagonal box for my new moth drawer - it took ages but I love it!
Louise

Hookshouse Pottery

I have been preparing work for the Fruits of Change exhibition at Hookshouse Pottery near Tetbury.

Here is my case and a detail.

The exhibition is from Sat 23rd - Sun 31st October, open daily 10 - 5. It is not far from Westonbirt Arboretum

turn at the Hare and Hounds on the A433. It will be signed. For a map go to Hookshouse Pottery

Lots of lovely pottery and things to be tempted by!

Louise