A question I am often asked is 'what do you do with the pieces you create'.
I rarely sell my work, the act of making gives me a connection to my pieces which I find hard to sever.
I am able occasionally to part with some pieces if they start life as 'something to sell' but otherwise I keep them.
(something to sell doesn't mean less thought, less time spent, less quality, it just means I am mentally prepared from the start to part with the piece)
That isn't the end of them though, they tend not to languish unnoticed, they are invaluable as resources for my teaching as illustrated here.
These pieces have been laid out, visible to me, for the past few days as instruction and inspiration for 'a sampler's cloth'.
This new online learning programme begins in just over a week and the first videos were made this morning.
I am very excited!!