Home Comfort Wool, cotton, plastic; hand knitting. Chrome Island as seen from Blue Shift's deck 2 years ago my husband and I took a month...

During the Vancouver Island Surface Design Association (VISDA) 'Pathways' exhibition in the Portals Gallery, Duncan, a member sat in the...

This new work began when the Vancouver Island Surface Design Association put out a call for entry. They were looking for an...

Sarah and I are so looking forward to the January 12 opening reception for our exhibition 'Colour: A Personal Response' at Places des...

Sarah McLaren and my 'Colour: A Personal Response' exhibition is on the road again. The day before we loaded up the car...it was really...

I got a new sewing machine for my birthday.  It is a Heavy Duty Singer that can sew thick and fast. My new Bernina 780 is not up to...

Sarah McLaren (website)  and I taught our new 'Mindful Colours' workshop to 24 people.  It was important to have 24 people because we sat...

Ready to teach our workshop on colour. 'Mindful Colours' by Sarah Mclaren and Lesley Turner  But before that, there were many hours of...

Opening Reception of Colour: A Personal Response - Lesley and Sarah. Thank you, Louise, for thinking of and taking a photograph of the 2...

Sarah unwraps her artwork. The first task once we got access to the gallery at 6:00 Sunday evening was to set up tables to work from. We...

For the past 2 years, Sarah McLaren and I have been producing bodies of work based on how we feel about specific colours. I have produced...

Tony Bounsall -  Tony Bounsall Photo Design  came to the Green Shed for a photo shoot. Tony has been photographing my work for years...

Eco-Threads is a juried exhibition put on jointly by Vancouver Island Surface Design Association and the Coast Collective in Colwood, on...

I continue to work on my Synesthesia colour studies. I used lots of thread on this one. For each colour, I also work in paint and fabric...

This is my new Reliable Velocity iron. I am hoping it has kept the best features of the older model and improved on others. New on the...

"Our sense organs can function only by means of comparisons. The eye accepts a line as long when a shorter line is presented for...

The annual Vancouver Island Surface Design Association Currents Threads exhibition will open on April 15 and run until April 30, 2017....

Every day I am in the studio I stitch into this work for an hour or so. After the tree added its wind drawing I am responding by marking...

This work began with a cloth that was buried in the soil beside a Douglas-fir tree. Before the cloth began to decay I dug it up. It was...

When the family checked into the Amalia Delphi Hotel in Delphi here , while touring Greece early this year, the 20-somethings commented...