Christmas Books

The time since Christmas has been flying by so fast, that I am only just

 posting about the books I received this Christmas . I think that books

make excellent Christmas presents, and  really look forward to reading them/

looking at them at Christmas. The best thing is that then they stay with you, and 

you have time to browse them at your leisure. At the moment, as I

am studying drawing and painting classes, my favourites are these new ones.

A Short Book of Drawing by Andrew Marr

A Shetland Notebook by Norman Ackroyd

Hockney's Pictures published by Thames and Hudson

Christmas Books

Christmas is always a good time to get new books, and I always enjoy the feeling of having something special to look at for the rest of the year and beyond.

I had two new textiles books as presents for Christmas, both of which were on my wish list!

Approaches to Stitch edited by Maggie Grey is a compilation of work by six well known textiles artists, Ro Bruhn, Elizabeth Brimelow, Ruth Lee, Sian Martin, Olga Norris and Beryl Taylor. It is available from D4daisy books. 

Sew Wild by Alisa Burke also includes a  DVD, and is full of ideas for ways to produce your own original fabric by dyeing and printing.