In this Gallery, we show all the wonderful work by our WOWies including pieces from workshops in all WOWbooks and from Maggie’s multi-coloured WOW Course. Click on each photo for full details. Enjoy!

Mara Webb. I have managed to create a stitched piece that was inspired by my manipulated images of a Physalis (Chinese lantern). Not much resemblance to the plant now but fun to see my work develop. Based on Ros Varrie’s Arty Applications workshop for WOWbook 08.

Mara Webb. I am finding Arty Applications rather addictive. I am not sure how I will translate any of my results into stitch yet and I need to practice some more with the tools in Oilist. I am doing a study of seeds and seed pods for a sketchbook that I have started which is what these images are based on.

Mara Webb. I am finding Arty Applications rather addictive. I am not sure how I will translate any of my results into stitch yet and I need to practice some more with the tools in Oilist. I am doing a study of seeds and seed pods for a sketchbook that I have started which is what these images are based on.

Gillian Gavshon. Part 2 of my vessels! This time I painted the Bondaweb with a slightly thicker paint and also on a piece of nappy liner I did some printing. Waited for them to dry – went to iron it onto the wadding and oh, couldn’t take the backing off!! Stuck, so I was pretty brutal and just yanked it off!! Leaving me with an interesting ‘palette’ to work on!! Anyway, no two vessels are the same but I was quite pleased the way it turned out!! It was fun.

Mara Webb. I have just got to share my first attempt at the Arty Applictions workshop with you. So much fun without any mess. Thank you Ros for this very different workshop. The collage show’s the original photo step one using Colour Pop followed by Oilist. The begonia by the way is over 20 years old.

Gillian Gavshon. Mara Webb vessel online workshop (WOWbook 07). This is my first workshop and what a joy it was. I have been toying with the idea of doing all sorts of online courses but WOW has what I need without having to commit myself to weeks of studying and I can choose what I want to do! I had to compromise on a few things on this project as I am limited in supplies to hand here in Deloraine!

Mara Webb. This piece uses a number of different techniques. I would like to thank Janet Edmunds for introducing me to Caran d’Ache water soluble crayons. The background is a length of screen-printed cotton that was sitting in my failures pile. I applied a band of Gesso and acrylic paint using a squeegee and to my delight this transformed the fabric. For the buildings I used an open weave curtain fabric with Gesso applied to the surface. I drew the outlines then used the paper patterns to transfer them onto the fabric with machine stitch. I then added colour using the crayons. The trees are silk organza embellished with machine embroidery inspired by the work of Hundertwasser but with my own interpretation so that they blend in with the rest of my design. The piece is 60 x 14cm.

Janine Pound. Progress with the ecoprinted papers I made following Caroline Bell in WOWbook 1. I used cotton lawn as a backing since I didn’t have muslin. I have lots of air bubbles on the back and have decided that might be why Caroline used muslin – the more open weave might allow the air out more effectively.

Karen Brooking. To make sure we don’t get in a sewing rut, a friend and I have decided to pick ideas from the Wow books for each other. This week I was challenged to do something based on Hillary Beattie’s workshop from WOW 1. Instead of making a stencil, I made a hydrangea stamp from funky foam and stamped on paper and fabric with fabric paint before washing with procion dye. I finished them off with butterflies.

Karen Brooking. To make sure we don’t get in a sewing rut, a friend and I have decided to pick ideas from the Wow books for each other. This week I was challenged to do something based on Hillary Beattie’s workshop from WOW 1. Instead of making a stencil, I made a hydrangea stamp from funky foam and stamped on paper and fabric with fabric paint before washing with procion dye. I finished them off with butterflies.

Ineke van Fassen. As a child I often drew pictures out of my father’s wildlife books. One bird in particular had my interest and I drew it many times. Inspired by Holly Hart’s article in WOWbook 05 I started drawing again. The beginning of a new textile project. Next step Bird project: adding colour.

Ineke van Fassen. Second bird stitched and cut. One to go. I also made some branches. After finishing the last bird i will make the composition and decide about the background.

Janice Pound. I have been having some fun with ecodyeing on paper and then outlining with some botanical inks made from boiled onion skins and red cabbage as well as walnut ink. First image is just the printed papers and the other two have been outlined. Eco prints from WOWbook 1 and botanical inks from WOWbook 5.

Jennifer Archer. Leamington branch of Embroiderer’s Guild had their members day last Saturday via Zoom and we had to make something from one of our many books. I chose Wowbook 4 – Amanda Hislop’s ‘Unfolding Story’. I’m not keen on mustard yellows and greys so chose purple and blues like David Hockney’s paintings. When I finished it I cut it up and made it into greetings cards.

Mara Webb. I was browsing through the back numbers of WOWbook at the weekend and No. 4 inspired me to have a go at Amanda Hislop’s workshop. I have put my own interpretation on some of the techniques but here are the results.

Mara Webb. I was just reviewing my WOW books and was inspired to create by Isobel Moore in book 5. I love Isobel’s colour pallet but as I don’t have those colours in my stash I just used what I had available. I used my embellisher to make the felt, applied it to a background of black Kunin felt then embellished from the back.

Mara Webb. A by-product of reading through Lynda Monk’s latest course. Transfer dyed luggage tags. Prepared transfer paper and tags both from my stash. More results to follow, just waiting for things to dry.

Wendy Burgess. I made many poor decisions with my wonky blue pot but am happy with the way it looks now. I used thick jute from my stash that looked like it would work but it was not one thickness and as I stitched it flattened out making the sides weak and uneven. Not wanting to start over I covered it with tissue paper which was a good decision and made it strong. Then I tried a peeled paint effect with blue and orange that ended up looking too even, like dots. I covered that with a white wash and it was too bright. My final good decision, was to spray it with brown dye to make it look like an aged pot. The maroon pot is an old fabric covered, hand stitched one that I just painted over and now love its more modern look.

Marie Bear. I was pleased with how my attempt at Amanda Hislop’s Tree project in book 4 turned out (posted Feb.) I decided to try and adapt it to a larger piece of work 20in x 30in.

Mara Webb. When I was looking for tissue paper I found some posh tissue that I had applied the momigami technique to ages ago. I use baby oil. It seems to work well and smells nice. So here are my samples using various papers and colours. I have given the tags shown in my previous picture a coat of acrylic wax. As an experiment, I ironed them between baking parchment and to my surprise the colour turned much brighter. The middle tag is covered with tissue coloured with transfer dye.

Deirdre Briscombe. I took up Maggie’s challenge back in January 2018 when I read about it in that edition of WOW. I listed what I had in the stash(an amazingly long list!), divided the items into 6 categories (written on little pieces of paper) and randomly chose one from each section. I ended up with – sari silk strips, Form-a-Foam, foils, gold acrylic paint, wooden stamp block and flaked gold leaf. I wove the sari silk fusing it at the junctions so it wouldn’t fall apart. The medallions were made from the Form-a-Foam, some painted and some covered with foils and gold leaf then stamped with the block to give depth. I also stamped straight onto some of the junctions with the fabric paint.

Janine Pound. I have finally found what to do with the hellebores I made when following Holly Hart’s section. I have been following some of the workshops put on by Sketchbook Revival and loved Karen Stamper’s Wild Gardens. I made one on fabric rather than paper, sealing the charcoal with acrylic wax.

Wendy Burgess. I have had a lot of fun experimenting with Lynda’s module 1 from WOWbook 5 over the past week. I printed a lot of images on different tissue types to see what I liked best. I used dress making tissue for the blue/green book cover. The white book cover is not finished but I think I may leave it as is. The postcards were great ways to try out some of the various techniques. I have so many more ideas now. Thanks Lynda for a wonderful course full of techniques and inspiration.

Jill Hill. I have now finished the first four months of my project with the sublimation printer and heat press. I am really enjoying this.

Maggie Grey. I’ve made a start on Lynda’s course. I have been collaborating with two of my cousins, who live in the USA, on our family tree, especially the time that our grandparents lived in India. I thought I’d make a folding book for each of them while we are in lockdown. Working from Lynda part one I painted some papery interfacing with tea and Brusho – keeping the colours light. Bondaweb was ironed on top. Then came a scanned greyscale photo of my grandma, printed on tissue paper, as instructed. A lightly used piece of foil was scrunched and ironed to the Bondaweb and the tissue pic was glued on with Matt medium. Really pleased with the result.

Janine Pound. I have been trying out a bit of Holly Hart’s section in WOW5. I outlined in India ink and used acrylic ink to colour. I have yellow, cerulean blue and crimson inks so I am somewhat limited in my colours! Is acrylic ink any different from watered down acrylic paint – perhaps a higher pigment? Going to do another flower and will add stitch as Holly shows.

Betty Smythe. I finally got some time in February to get back to WOW stuff and general messing about. Our local group planned a day rusting cloth & paper using assorted methods. I had tried the Carol McFee method a couple of days before, but on the day had a lightbulb moment. I wasn’t planning to embellish it, but was so pleased as it was just a quick trial.

Mara Webb. I picked up my onion skin ink (Alice Fox) yesterday and found that it was going mouldy. Not wanting to dispose of it yet I decided to look at the work of Holly Hart, also in book 5. This is the result. The poppies were painted with onion skin ink with bicarbonate which gave me the lovely reddish brown colour. I also had some iron water tucked away. Thank you ladies I am really pleased with this piece. Probably worth looking for a frame.

Janine Pound. have been having a play with onion skins. I used red onions having used yellow in the past. Firstly, I layered some flowers and a few leaves between papers, threw in the onion skins and boiled it all for about an hour. When the onion water was cool, I mixed a little with bicarb of soda, vinegar and added rust to some more. Then I boiled it again to reduce and darken and then repeated the adding of bicarb and vinegar. The photos give an idea of what I achieved. The ecodyed paper. The orange specks are lily anthers, yellow are pink rose petals(!) and the blue are red chrysanthemums . The pink lilies didn’t leave any colour.

Wendy Burgess. I love the articles in Wowbook 5. My first experiments were with the discharge technique in Mary McIntosh’s article, Lifes a Bleach. I haven’t done this before and it was a lot of fun. The blue circles was my first attempt. I quickly learnt not to apply to much discharge paste through the stencil and to be very fast with the iron when doing the bleach. My second one on the black was not layered but more of a test to see how much control you could have with the design. I think I will be doing more of this in the future.

Annette Turnbull. I bought a heat press last year after attending a fab workshop at Leicester Print Studios. These are some of my experiments/happy accidents. The chickens were done with transfer wax crayons on top of a background of patched gelli printed transfer paint squares. The lace was used as a resist initially but as the transfer paint coated the strips of lace I re-printed with them and got this lovely background which is begging to be stitched into. The tulip flowers were painted picture like onto paper. Some of the leaves were printed from real leaves and some were cut from painted papers. Lynda Monk’s workshops have given me so many more ideas – I can’t wait for my broken shoulder blade to heal so that I can get pressing………

Mara Webb. Just had to do a quick experiment with my onion inks. I love this technique of creating art. For anyone who hasn’t come across it; dip a length of string into the ink, carefully lay the string down onto blank a page in your sketchbook, ends of the string protruding. Close the book, hold the cover down firmly then pull the string out. The resulting shapes are just amazing and always a surprise. Anyway, I’m done now. Back to course work.

Jill Hill. WOWbook No 5 arrived this morning. May have to take a few hours off! Following on from my flower a month in 2018 and a bird a month in 2019′ this years month by month project is fauna on the farm, machined animals on calico, appliquéd to a painted background. Imagine my surprise when I opened up to Holly Hart’s contribution!

Jan Andrews. I had some leftover paper strips from painting papers for the Laura and Linda Kemshall sketchbooks, WOW Book 2. I also had some painted papers left from the Amanda Hislop workshop, WOW Book 4. I combined them with a bit of stitchery to make a sort of story book with no words, just imagination.

Wendy Burgess. My inspiration for this artwork was an aerial photo I took from a plane window as I crossed Australia. I could see a line of brightly coloured salt lakes below amongst all the square farmlands and thought it was a great pattern for textiles. I started out with the pressure stencils from Maggies Course, module 4.The stencilled lakes didn’t work too well so I covered them with coloured metals. I did do the cut back applique for some of the fields. Later I added more colour with pan pastels because I wanted more rectangles to contrast with the circles. It is not as abstract as I was going for but not realistic either.

Sue Baxter. Carol McFee I have had my piece on the wall for a couple of weeks now and thought it was about time I posted. It is nothing like a book cover but I have used your excellent workshop ideas. I am now trying to combine rust, Katy Sue moulds and ideas from CCA …. should be an interesting result…

Mara Webb. Having recently treated myself to an embellisher machine I have been doing lots of experimenting andI remembered that Maggie Grey had posted a video in Wow book 3. My version isn’t quite like the one that Maggie made but the principle is the same. I started off with a long piece of chiffon. I didn’t want to add felt all along the whole length so I just ran the embellisher over the chiffon fabric. Here is the result. Interesting!

Wendy Burgess. I needed to create a book cover so went through Wowbooks for inspiration. I ended up using the ideas from Annette Turnbull and Pam Bailey in the Wowies Top Products article that was part of the online section of Book 2. I stretched some Kozo bark out, covered it with water soluble paper making a few holes as I went and spraying on colour. When it was dry I hand stitched it to a piece of fabric and used the washer idea from Pam for decoration.

Jan Andrews. Here are the sketchbooks inspired by Laura and Linda Kemshall, WOW Book2. I tried out some new ways of binding using just one pierced hole and ribbon and another using tabs cut from the covers to secure the inner pages. Both methods were taken from an excellent bookbinding book written by Rachel Hazell.

Linda Burgess. It’s all about moths for me too at the moment. After many, many weeks of learning new printmaking skills I needed to get back to sewing for awhile. No gum arabic transfer with these moths (they’re waiting in the wings (get it – wings!)) but simple discharge paste and appliqué. Boy does that discharge paste STINK!!

Wendy Burgess. Margaret Beal’s workshop from WOWbook 3 was a lot of fun. I bought her book last year so I have had a bit of a play with the soldering iron before. I decided to see how fine and intricate I could go with my sampler. All the fabric is held in place with the soldering technique. I used a metal stencil to trace the dragonflies and butterfly using a fine tip. Any stitching is purely decorative or to hold on the beads and embellishments.

Karen Teal. I am new to Wow books but I am making up for lost time and now have all 4 and working through them when I get a moment in between life things……….at the weekend I played with Wow book 1 Caroline Bell Eco printing on a variety of papers, silk and cotton. I have tried it before but never been that successful but following Caroline’s instructions there was a eureka moment … had a great time walking the dog and collecting leaves.

Liz Swinbank. Hurrah, after much trial and error of trying to print useing Sue Browns tecnique in the latest WOW book i have finally cracked it and got results. I must admit i was ready to give up as i was getting nowhere despite having everything i needed. After trying to alter amounts of everything I finally decided to see if there was more than one type of Linseed oil and there is, and that was where my results were falling down. I had one that could be mixed with oil paints/inks but was water based, i bought an oil based one today and yippy i have results. Just need to perfect my tecnique now, but one happy bunny. Thank you Sue Brown for your support. I also discovered that you can get at least two prints from on photocopy, think i might have been pushing my luck here.

Linda Burgess. Having a go at Gum Arabic transfers today. These were the best of the bunch. One on cartridge paper, one on a piece of previously Gelli-printed linen and my favourite (bees) on top of a collagraph print that I’d done some time ago. If I’ve had some failures it’s not the process, it’s my poor judgement of trying to print on a background that was probably too dark. I don’t think I’ll live long enough to become anywhere near as good as Sue Brown.

Betty Smythe. I’ve just finished the distorted image piec. The image is OK, but I’m delighted with the background! Black watercolour paper crumpled, the peaks brushed over with gold wax and ten the whole thing sprayed till it pooled in places with aqua Starburst spray. I’ve always had trouble in the past with these pooling – not a problem here!

Wendy Burgess. I haven’t even finished with Wowbook 1 but have completed my first project from book 2, Sue Dove’s Collage. I chose to only do a little stitching as I liked the fabrics too much to cover them. I thought it was a fun technique and love the thick outlines so will probably do that again.

Mara Webb. Up a gum tree is the appropriate phrase as I didn’t have all the appropriate materials for this sample. Not to be defeated I used what I had in my stash and as a consequence, missed out some of the elements. I am reasonably pleased with the result but feel that it is a bit bright and next time I would like to acheive a more natural look. I didn’t have any coffee pods so my husband suggested that I use tea light holders of which we have loads, including the deep ones. I coloured them with cheep nail varnish. So on to the next project …

Anne-Marie Bates. Love the WOW 2 book – first book in ages I’ve read cover to cover! Trouble is, I’ve got too many ideas from it bubbling around in my brain. Couldn’t wait to do Clare Bullock’s nuno felt so I tried printing on a random bit of felt – it works! Was thinking Aborigine on these (with apologies to our Australian people).

Geraldine Mussell. Finally finished – I think – the mushrooms from Marian Jazmik’s workshop. Gave up as I didn’t like them then came back to them.

Mara Webb. Inspired by Jan Beaney, WOW book 3, I though that I would have a go at a bit of pen and wash. As usual there is too much wash but with the help of Photoshop Elements and Publisher I ended up with an acceptable repeat pattern for my Advanced Stitched Textiles design book. The images are based on photographs that I took in the Plantation Garden.

Sandra McKenney. This ismy version of Laura Edgar’s project from WOW #1. I am really happy with it. It is about an A3 size and has West Australian fish leather in it. When I showed my husband (who is a great supporter) his comment was there is a little octopus trying to run away on the left of the picture (that was the fish leather!) He is always good for a laugh… Thanks to Laura for the inspiration and of course the WOW team for making that inspiration accessible.

Sara Hansson. Hej! After a hectic winter and spring with courses, exhibitons and open studios I have now managed to do some stitching for myself and absolutely loved the Ruth Norbury workshop. Brilliant! Although not great, here are my samples and trials from the workshop. Definitely worth taking forward thinks me!

Betty Smythe. Module 1, Part 2: Texture. I ended up doing the centre panel on calico but then worked from the back when I realised I liked the effect better, the effect is paler. The heavy gesso is clearly raised but merged with the background colour. Braids are sari silk threads, tiles are cast paper, finished off with 3 buttons from the inherited button collection.

Jill Hill. I have now finished the first parts of the letter and motif section of Maggie’s course. Auto embroidered the letters on to felt and cut out with a soldering iron. The feathers are painted vilene and the background spray painted silk with loads of whip stitch over bump and backing to give the undulations.

Wendy Burgess. I have been doing a few different things from each WOWbook. This is one of the completed pieces from Hilary Beattie’s lesson in the first book. I did make the gum leaf stencil but got lazy with the other prints and used commercial stencils as I have a lot of them. I really loved the idea of colouring in the stencilled area with pencils for extra shading and colour. I did add hand stitchng as well as the machine work because I like that more.

Lynn Collison. I had another go at Caroline Bell’s eco printing from WOWbook 01, this time on fabric as well as paper. Slightly different method as a soaked the paper and fabric in the diluted iron water before adding leaves and onion skins. Looking forward to having another go with green leaves and flowers next year.

Wendy Burgess. My version of Maggie’s little bit more from Maggie’s multi-coloured WOW course. I have only just last month made a booklet with cutouts so chose to turn my experiment into a wall hanging. I had not heard of Archibald Knox but am really in love with his work, partly because I love lettering and also the art nouveau and art deco periods. Thanks Maggie.

Jen Skedd. Tried Sue Dove’s Collage project from WOWbook 02. It was such fun – I loved it. I used her design from the book for my first example, then did my own using these amazing sunflowers I was given. But it’s been so hot today, my oil pastels are melting! I’ll correct the proportions of the over-large vase when I do the stitched version.

Wendy Burgess. The second motif piece from Maggie’s course. I used up some paper that I had previously created with wax and dye during an Els Van Baarle workshop rather than making a new background. I did initially add some stitched ripples but didn’t like the way they looked so I unpicked them. It has left the marks in the paper that I don’t mind. They are much more subtle than the stitching was.

Mara Webb. Having taken something like 160 coffee pods apart I thought that I had better do something with them. This is a collaboration piece influenced by WOWbook 02. A background of Nuno felting with a bit of printing, Clare Bullock. A bit of needle felting to add texture and then coffee pod leaves Alysn Midgelow-Marsden. Finally in the foreground a few umbelliferers made with kozo.

Chris Yates. Eco printing – Caroline Bell’s workshop. I left most of them with the flowers on until they were completely dry this morning. The colours have faded a little but am still pleased that there is a little of the pink showing from the fushcias. The larger darker pieces are my first batch and were baked for 60mins in just water and vinegar. The smaller pieces with lime/yellow are my second batch baked for 30 mins in water and vinegar and about half teaspoon of turmeric – I just have to experiment – I can’t help myself! Want to do more with maybe some paprika too and definitely some fabric bits.

Betty Smythe. Working hard to try and catch up on the distorted motifs exercise from Maggie’s course. Ended up stitching rather than a paper exercise. (Also forgot to put a partial frame in and had the motifs to far apart – so yes plonked!) However I did find some useful thngs 1) There is another Photoshop filter “Twirl” that works well too 2) If you’re lazy and just want to get a smallish bit into a roller frame to lightly tension, you can quickly secure it to the tapes with small safety pins 3) The overlay on this was strips of distorted gauze and I want to just stick it in place – I was pretty sure Vliesofix would show. So I spayed it with Freeze Hold (strongest) Hairspray. Probably only good for temporary stuff or an exercise. I have also used it in the past to secure the surface on copper patinated with ammonia. Anyway “Its Life Jim, But Not As We Know It”. Background – batik patchwork material; Life & overlay ice dyed.

Kerri McArdle. WOWbook 3 arrived so thought I had better get to and finish this project that uses the bottomless vessel & kozo tree workshops from WOWbooks 1 & 2. I’m naming this resolved work “Birdsong”. Inside of vessel painted to symbolise earth/dirt/ ground with the outer side painted blue for sky & green for foliage over musical notes printed on paper; birds and leaves then stitched into the outer side. The kozo tree sits loosely inside the vessel with tags stamped with the word ‘tweet’.

Wendy Burgess. I thought I would share the book I made from the eco-dyed papers from WOWbook 1. I used procion dye on some of the paper instead of the iron water expecting it to dilute during the process. It didn’t so the colour is a lot bolder than I thought it would be. Initially I outlined some of the leaves with coloured pencils but later decided to add more lines and doodles for more contrast. It has been an ongoing project but is now complete.

Anne-Marie Bates. Thought you might be interested in how it turned out. Had a problem as I’d used the only photocopy of these ducks that I had and couldn’t find the original ! had to “wing” the free motion machining, hoping it looked something like. Found the transfer wrinkled a bit so doodled over that. I learnt a lot – will make two copies next time!

Wendy Burgess. I recently finished my Brusho landscape for Maggie’s course. I learnt a lot during my first experiments with the Brusho. Number 1 was to wear rubber gloves when you open the containers because that pigment stains hands for days! I chose to hand stitch this one as a way to unwind in the busy lead up to Christmas. Love Maggie’s technique for printing the designs and this has already lead to another three landscapes. I can see so many possibilities with other paintings I have thought would make good stitching backgrounds.

Lou Threapleton. I finally had a go at something (bought all the books of course!) Clare Bullock Nuno Felting in book 2. It takes some work but I think it worked! Just silk I had and next time, less stripy. It’s very soft.

Tracey Fernandes. Miles behind as always but I have enjoyed making this little book, the cover of which is based on the technique shown by Lynda Monk using Tyvek (if you can remember that far back!).

Birgit Friese. I had much pleasure in working “distorting scripture”; three small works and one large work were created. Here’s a sample: Business – Scills – ‘Leidenschaft’; font distorted and curved with Photoshop Elements, Vilene S80, Gesso, Gloss Medium, Pebeo Moon Hammered Effect. People: felt background: spunbond on acrylic plate.

Wendy Burgess. This is Module 3 Part 1 of Maggie’s course that goes with Wowbook 3. I must admit I did groan when I read about the mark making but it’s been a while since I altered a book and I did enjoy it, even the mark making. I used Brusho (my latest obsession) for the colour and ended up with water and colour going through the book so I will be more careful in the future. I used pen only for these but will try other mark making tools too.

Mara Webb. I am fortunate to be the keeper of my mother in law’s artwork from when she was at St Martins. She was Margaret Timmins then and unfortunately, her studies came to an end at the outbreak of the World War II. I am now looking at using copies of her designs whilst following the work of Cas Holmes, Stitched Stories and Found Objects. Using the technique in Maggie Grey’s video, Wow book 3 I have transferred a couple of photo copies onto a piece of old cotton sheeting. The next stage will be to add some stitching and incorporate them into a bigger piece of work so this is work in progress. This shows Margaret’s orignal artwork, photocopied and transferred onto the sheeting.

Wendy Burgess. I recently had a go at Dale’s Paper, Cloth, Transfer, Stitch workshop that is in the online WOWbook 3 Members club. I haven’t made silk paper that way and was pleasantly surprised at how thin and strong you could make it. I used an altered photo of the Forest floor piece from a previous WoW edition for the transfer. I added hand stitching as well as the machine work and joined it together with large jump rings.

Lynn Collison. Had a go at Clare Bullock’s Felt Print Stitch from WOW 2. I used sari silk and some odd bits of silk fabric but some of the thicker bits did not felt into the fibres as well as I hoped. I have to admit wet felting isn’t my thing and I’d rather be using my embellished machine! I decided to add lots of stitching to secure all the silk and used the end result for a card. Will try again making sure the silk is not too thick.

Wendy Burgess. I had already done the cover for my journal so I used Maggie’s technique from Module 3 part 2 to make this mixed media piece. I added colour and a few beads but other than that, the technique is the same. I haven’t used a lot of dissovable paper before and am now a convert. It adds so much texture!