Using dyes from plants, flower and vegetables
Discover a whole new use for the plants and flowers from your garden and even the vegetables from your kitchen. Angela shows you some of the results from everyday items. For example, daffodils, tulips, onion skips and rosehips, that give her fabrics t...

Simple dyeing in jars
Angela loves to use items from the garden, the hedgerows and her kitchen to create her lovely hand-dyed fabrics. Madder root, which is used to create a turkey red colour, is her particular favourite.
You will see how easy it is to get the fabric to mellow in simple kilner ja...

Not only does Angela guide you through this delightful papercraft, but you get a short monoprinting workshop too, which creates the background fabric.
Angela loves to use up and recycle not only her magazines but would consider creating this with recycled textiles too.
She guides you through the ...

Make your fabric truly individual
Angela takes us through how easy it is to create a wonderful, individual piece of fabric, in your own kitchen from something as simple as a pile of dried tulip leaves.
About Angela Daymond
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In her dyeing workshop, Angela uses Brazilwood to give the fabric a ‘pink’ color. She uses string to give this lovely shibori effect. If you are old enough to be a ‘flower child’ , we would call it tie-dyeing! As a bonus, don’t forget that the string will also pick up some dye color so you can us...

Angela shows us a range of ways to create dyed fabric with that tied look. She does this with the help of some simple spices from your kitchen cupboard. In this particular workshop Angela has used Turmeric and Paprika, plus some pegs and rubber bands; there is advice on how to wrap the fabric and...

Angela loves her hand quilting and she makes it quick and easy with these big stitches. She guides you through the thread options, needle options, guidance on quilting patterns that you can use and/or be inspired by; shows you how to put the quilt correctly into a hoop and also how to handle the ...

This little bird decoration in traditional Kantha stitch finishes at approx 3.5″. As you can see Angela has finished by putting it into a little decorative hoop, which displays it beautifully. How great would several of these look hung from your tree and branches.
As a bonus for subscribers, Ange...

This little workshop has been extracted from a longer piece that Angela did for us creating a textile bird picture from newsprint and magazines. However, we thought this piece stands on it’s own and you can see how easy it is to create a unique piece of fabric on your table top, utilising items t...

Angela talks you through how to create this project. She likes to use woad dyed fabric, which she creates herself.

In the workshop she talks about the styles of stitching, the regional differences, what threads she prefers, together with the relevant needles.

Traditionally this work had no ...

We are going to start with wandering round the West Country Quilt Show, which we did a back in the autumn of 2018. And as well as nosing around lots of other interesting stands and displays and looking  at some of the remarkable competition quilts, we meet super-talented textile artists Fran Holm...

Angela uses these inktense pencils to create wonderful landscapes for her kantha stitching. In addition, she suggests to colour in your pre-quilted designs - even a feather wreath.

Anyway, back to the pencils - with the addition of water or aloe vera gel, the inks in these become really vibran...

Angela selects four different products to use to create the colour in her fabrics, which are both cotton and silk;  she uses onion skins for a soft beige colour;  walnut husks for brown;  wood chippings for purple and madder root for red/pink.
Sometimes you need to pre-treat the fabric with a mod...

Angela and Paula continue to share with us their varied approach to producing this classic favourite.  Both enjoy using different threads and stitches. Angela explains (and shows) how the different thicknesses of thread make a difference. You can use  some of these on the sewing machine, others m...

Crazy patchwork continues to appeal. Angela and Paula show that you can take different approaches to achieve a similar end result.

By sewing the pieces onto the foundation fabric by hand, with a simple running stitch, it remains very portable;  Angela suggests using up old tray cloths or lace ...

This interview took place on our stand at the West Country Quilt & Textile Show in Nov 2016. Angela shares Fay and us her love of dyeing  with natural products. For example, things she can find in her garden, the hedgerows and even in her kitchen cupboard!
Also she loves to sew particularly using...