Bradford Textile Society!

I was very fortunate to receive another commendation from the Bradford Textile Society! A van load of us travelled from uni leaving at 6 in the morning to get there for the registration. It was a great day, the entries were absolutely brilliant and as this was my third year of attending the ceremony I really noticed the quality was even higher than last year.
I entered the British Wool Board category with my tea cosies!!!

I used dried plants to hand dye the mixture of wool, cotton and bamboo. This was very time consuming but produced wonderfully bright colours.  The tea cosies are a mixture of hand and machine knit and were a collection I completed last year which was my second. The image above shows one of my exhibition walls!

I also used family photos to inspire the textures and pattern....