Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

    Recently, I've created a few portraits and it is always interesting to try different techniques. For a  "travelled" theme exhibition, the Wednesday Makers Group at Timeless Textiles   was invited to create some postcard portraits.    It was a great opportunity to use  "random cross stitch" , a technique I learnt in the textileartist.org workshop by Sharon Peoples.  The cross stitch helps to create a textured skin with subtle changes in tone.  My husband, Jim, is the subject -  here depicted on a trip in Finland ( Finnish forest in the background)  This postcard is  all handstitched and as Jim always travels with a paper map , I added a much loved map in miniature.  The whole collection of postcards by the group captures travel memories of places visited and enjoyed - places like Hawaii, Uzbekistan, Turkey,  Vietnam, Bali, India, Fiji , Latvia, Lord Howe Island, Disneyland, China , Germany, Finland, Ukraine, B...

  Some of you may have heard about  #the100dayproject ... What is it?  Every year, thousands of people all around the world commit to 100 days of creating at the same time. Anyone can participate .  The idea is simple: choose a creative project, do it every single day for 100 days, and share your process on social  media using the hashtag #The100DayProject, connecting with other participants and followers of the project.  This year #the100dayproject started on 13 February and finishes on 24 May ,  if you count consecutive days. Some participants take up to 2 years to complete 100 days of creating!  The first step is usually to decide on a personal project ... this year, I decided to do something simple and late last year,  I purchased a box of 100 pantone colour postcards.  As I am also preparing a much bigger project, based on the "exuberance" of colour, I thought this would be a great way to move gently into the project and practise wo...