Giveaway Winner and SPRING arriving in our Garden

Tomorrow marks the beginning of my new class

at Creative Workshops

Fabric Lace book / Journal "Peaceful and Pondering"

http://creativeworkshops.typepad.com/blog/2015/07/peaceful-pondering-fabric-lace-book-suzy-quaife.html

 

Although the class opens tomorrow you can join 

anytime you wish as it is open ended! 

 

  and I just wanted to announce the winner of my Giveaway related to celebrate my first on-class at Creative Workshops

and it is Freda B at
Freda B (SewWhatsNew blog)
Freda will win this collage
Congratulations Freda!!! 

 Freda's area of expertise is Crazy Quilting so go over and visit
her and view her beautiful stitching.
Freda please give me your emailing details and I will get this
off to you pronto!
♥♥♥

This beautiful season of Spring in Australia
has been long awaited so I can now
share some garden images
of what is just opening up.
It felt so wonderful to throw open our doors and let the
beautiful fragrance from these blossoms enter.

 

 

Oh these glorious Magnolias are growing sky high!

 

 

 

 

and

feeling very blessed to be surrounded by the beauty
these provide!

I have a new journal to share with several pieces of my
loganberry died fabrics and laces - coming soon
and 
in the meantime am working on a new project
and 

I will see where it leads me!

Stitching, stenciling and felting!!! 

Thank you all for your continued support and interest
in my artwork. I do really love to hear your
comments and I appreciate so much
that you take the time
to visit here.

Love to you all!
Suzy xox

Simply Neutrals Tuesday Party No. 1

When the wonderful Wen Sylvestre of
www.appleapricot.blogspot.com 
decided to have a linky party

 

where participants could post anything in neutral colours,
be it cream, white, grey, beige, and heck even silver and brown are allowed!

 I decided that I would join in with some of my favourite
loved items that I have collected over the
years and, many of which,
I love to create with.

Not being able to decide on just one thing I created
this collage of items.

 

 

A French vintage face powder box - Ocre Rosee

 

 

 a beautiful piece of unfinished crocheted edged linen!

 

some vintage cut-lace doilies.

 

this biology specimen box with layers

of glass slides!

 and finally some tarnished silver  - like
this tray and

 

 this little silver trinket box I have owned for more than
50 years! (Oh my goodness - did I say that!!!)

 

might just fit the bill.
So go over to Wendy's blog (link above) and join in.
She would love to have you share all of your
neutrals with her and everyone else.

♥♥♥♥♥
Also a little reminder to join in my GIVEAWAY
(see my previous post)
where you could win this collaged wall hanging.

created by me!

One More Giveaway and One More Winner!

As I promised I have one final 

GIVEAWAY 

 for you to enter before my on-line class begins in a week's time

as well as announcing the Winner of my last Giveaway -

one free on-line class to create your own Fabric and Lace Book / Journal

"Peaceful and Pondering"
at Creative Workshops with our wonderful Co-ordinator,
Gail Schmidt. Click the link:

 http://creativeworkshops.typepad.com/blog/2015/07/peaceful-pondering-fabric-lace-book-suzy-quaife.html

 So firstly, the Winner for free admission to my on-line class is:
Lesley UK
(No.6)

Lesley doesn't have a blog but she has been following mine
now for a number of years to I'm thrilled to be able
to make this class happen for you Lesley.  
***Please Lesley email me now with your details.
♥♥♥♥♥ 

And for those who would like yet another chance to be inspired
to join in the class I am offering this fabric collage 
wall hanging.

 

Layers of delicious laces, doilies, softest chiffons, flowers,

embroidered silk and sari ribbons

with some little added pearl 

buttons and chain.

 

 

  Once again just tell me that you are following my blog 
and
leave your name, blog and email details so
that I can contact you when
I draw a winner which will be 
Sunday, 13th Sept. (here in Australia)
approx. 1 week away when the class begins. Yeah! 
I know some of you have been waiting what seems forever
to begin but now it is just a matter of days!!!! 

Thank you so much for coming to visit and for showing
so much interest and enthusiasm in this coming venture.
Your comments and thoughts have been incredibly
supportive and appreciated!!!
♥♥♥  to all,
Suzy 

An Experiment with our Loganberries

Recently I thought I might try

using some of our Logan Berry juice from last Summer

(we still have some of our own stewed frozen berries that we grew

and picked about 5months ago)

to dye a few bits of lace and cotton that I was wanting to use

in a new book which is now almost finished.

So here is what they looked like boiling in a stainless steel

pot on top of our slow combustion stove.

 I poured off about 1/4 cup of the juice from the stewed berries,

then added this to a cup of water and boiled these

bits of cloth and lace pieces

for approx. 30 mins.

Because I was wanting to achieve a less bright and more muddy

colour I decided to add a few sprinkles of Dylon black

to the liquid.

I was quite happy with this colour

 

 but still playing I then popped the pieces into a pot

of diluted Parisian Essence.

My preference would have definitely been to use the

eco-dyeing method but time did not permit me

to experiment this time.

 

 I was quite happy with these results!

A potpourri of of altered shades of Loganberries and

this is how they are starting to look in combination with

other shades and colours in my new book.

 

 

 A blending of some favourite colour combinations
which I will share in my new journal soon!

 Yeah the sun is shining and the air is starting to warm up again

as Spring is waking up here.  I hope you are having some

lovely weather still where you are too!

Enjoy!

 xox Suzy