Mandy Pattullo and The Hearth

Last week, I set out on a beautiful cross-country route through County Durham to The Hearth Art Centre & Cafe in Horsley, Northumberland, in order to meet up with textile artist Mandy Pattullo.  The Hearth is a former manse which has been sympathetically converted into artists’ studios, with a cafe located in two ground-floor rooms.ContinueContinue reading “Mandy Pattullo and The Hearth”

The Crocodile and the Crazy Birds fabric

This week I have had a lot of fun designing a fabric for my Spoonflower collection. Each week, Spoonflower sets a contest design brief and the most recent was this: “Inter-species animal friendships” which got me thinking.  I remembered from somewhere back in the past, that crocodiles have a symbiotic relationship with a certain bird.ContinueContinue reading “The Crocodile and the Crazy Birds fabric”