{"id":1095,"date":"2014-05-05T21:44:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T20:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbieanne.com\/abblog\/?page_id=1095"},"modified":"2014-10-13T07:54:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T06:54:55","slug":"this-is-me-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/abbieanne.com\/abblog\/?page_id=1095","title":{"rendered":"This is Me!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Me\u2026\u2026.. I\u2019m Abbie Searle, also known as Abbieanne.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I patchwork and quilt. I paint and I play. I manipulate fabrics and ask you to use your own imagination. I teach and encourage others. I love colour and fabric. I like to laugh. I\u2019m also very nosey\u2026 I like to see others\u2019 work, discuss what\u2019s occurring and try new things. I\u2019ve always loved anything to do with art, the bigger, brighter and more tactile the better, although I can appreciate traditional as well.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I found patchwork and quilting lots of years ago (!) when I was on an economy mission to make a quilt for a present. I saw one in a shop, didn\u2019t like the colours and decided I could do that\u2026\u2026.sooooooooo, that\u2019s when the obsession started!<\/p>\n

I could fill pages with guff about what I do, but I would prefer it if you look at my work and make up your own minds. I will say that the obsession led me into getting some C&G qualifications in Design, Patchwork and Quilting and Embroidery, these on top of my art qualifications and many years of just messing about in any artistic material or medium I could afford at the time! I\u2019ve won a few art based competitions, I\u2019ve displayed quilts at the Quilts UK show at Malvern and The Festival of Quilts at the NEC, I have also taught at the NEC. I have had projects published by magazines and produce unique patterns for sale.<\/p>\n

I also work in a fabulous art supplies and crafts shop just down the road from me, it\u2019s like going to play in a sweet shop every day! (Artycrafts in Wadebridge, Cornwall\u2026\u2026.\u2026) I teach basic & intermediates hand patchwork & quilting classes. I teach requested craft workshops in a range of techniques, not just fabrics. I trundle my quilts, some by me, some not, around to group meetings and stand talking at people about them, local WI\u2019s are getting to know me well! I have a wonderful time meeting people and hopefully inspiring them to do a bit themselves. I take commissions: quilts, wall-hangings, pictures, whatever anybody wants, so long as I can figure out a way to make it, or,: You design it, I\u2019ll make it \u2013 for a small fee of course!<\/p>\n

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