Crafting and past projects

Arty Farty

A summer at French Woods

Double knitting with one of my best students - This was her first experience knitting!

Greenwich Village Weaving Studios, New York

Making friends with the George the Alpaca - then using the amazing wool!

For the love of liberty

Quilted Handbag 

Laptop case in Strawberry Thief print - William Morris design

Liberty brick quilt

You can never deny oneself a liberty grandmothers garden quilt

Love is in the air...

Patchwork Purple

My crafting friends 

Sandrine the singer

The most beautiful box of thread one could ever imagine

And can't forget this one... Maddy loves a good crafty project! 

Chapter 1

My love of art stems from a childhood surrounded by an abundance of the arts. I have been brought up in a family where appreciation of the arts has been encouraged, stimulating a passion to be a part of the arts sector. I have been very lucky to have grown up in an arty family that loves to travel. This opened my eyes to different cultures from a very young age. Galavanting all over the world showed me designs beyond my imagination. Stemming from mosaics at the Alhambra Palace - which fuelled my creativity with regard to patchwork, The Kunst House in Vienna - expressing design, and modern art - at the Moma in New York. 

In the summer of 2013, I worked as a Visual Arts teacher at French Woods Festival for the Arts in New York. I taught with unique skills that I acquired from experts in the field, particularly in the fibre arts department. This experience enhanced my awareness of the extensive range of Art available and furthered my skills, as well as fuelling my creativity. This experience allowed me to witness the application of the arts in different aspects of society and enabled me to bring back ideas, and new projects that I have been able to pass on to students in Wales.. 

My desire to ensure that a creative culture prevails motivates me to write this blog, and to encourage others to get involved in art.

A new chapter

I'm Alice and today I decided to start a blog. I want to fill it with my hobbies, particularly sewing, knitting, crochet, photography, quotes and design.

So, I finished my law degree over a week ago. After 3 years of reading law books, I feel that it is about time I organised the books that I truly love reading, and start to create things again!

                                                    Where to begin you may ask? 

When it comes to buying fabric for crafty projects...it always has to be Liberty Tana Lawn and nothing else! So here is a picture of my liberty den...I adore quilting, scrapbooking, and collecting vintage and contemporary liberty pieces. I may have accidentally bought all of the liberty vans range... whoops!

You can buy it here:- http://www.liberty.co.uk/fcp/departmenthome/dept/fabrics 

This is what my life has looked like for the past 3 years... and I'm sure you will agree, it's time that all changed.  

In this blog I hope to provide tutorials, inspiration and fun for all you crafty souls out there. As after all being creative is a way of life, not just a hobby!