I used a framework of withies, hessian strips and reclaimed copper wires. The elements will be alligned with these as the work develops.

Laying it out
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May 6, 2016 | Categories: artwork, craft work, Exhibition | Tags: Angus Open Studios, arts, Arts Worker, Broomstick Crochet, bruges, Collage, craft, crochet, crochet buttons, ellie, Ellie Fiddes, exhibition, freeform crochet, granny squares, Hairpin Crochet, hessian, irish, Irish Crochet, jute, mixed media, new work, organic, original artwork, resources, vintage, wall hanging, wall hangings, yarn | Leave a comment
I’m going to the AOS meeting tonight. This year’s directories are ready, looking forward to finding what they are like this year and to handing them out. For more information and directions to find my exhibition please see my AOS page at
http://www.angusopenstudios.com/artist/45
Thank you!
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April 7, 2015 | Categories: artwork | Tags: Angus Open Studios, Art, Artist, arts, Arts Worker, Broomstick Crochet, bruges, Collage, craft, crochet, crochet buttons, demonstrations, drawings, dressmaking, ellie, Ellie Fiddes, examples, exhibition, exhibitions, fiddes, filet, flowers, foliage, granny squares, Hairpin Crochet, Hobbycraft, irish, Irish Crochet, Kirriemuir, Kirriemuir Artists, knitting, lacemaking, mixed media, NEOS, new work, organic, original artwork, paint, prints, resources, teaching, tenerif, vintage, wall hangings, yarn | Leave a comment
Have been working on a bit of free form crochet. Here’s one result, a wee wall hanging with jute and shells.

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January 25, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Art, Arts Worker, beads, crochet, crochet tutor, ellie, Ellie Fiddes, examples, exhibition, fibrecraft, From Ellie's Hand, mixed media, new work, organic, original artwork, Shells, wall hangings, yarn | Leave a comment
Hi Everybody. This year has started quiet. I have been happily working away at new pieces of crochet work.
Meantime, my trusty computer friend had been quietly languishing in the Pooter Hospital 😦 awaiting a delicate operation “upgrading the hard drive”
I did not realise how much I depend on it till it isn’t here! I am without the technology to upload new photographs from my camera until at least next week. In the meantime here is a photograph of an older piece of work “Connections” whilst on display at Hallgreen Castle.
This work was inspired by my favourite tree, a dead coppiced elm in the Nature Reserve at Kinnordy. “Dead wood” is such an important item in a natural woodland, providing food, homes and shelter for many living things, and without it so much is lost from the natural environment. There is just so much life around this “dead” tree.
Enjoy!!
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January 13, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Art, biodiversity, Broomstick Crochet, crochet, ellie, Ellie Fiddes, elm, exhibitions, fiddes, Hairpin Crochet, Kinnordy, mixed media, NEOS, organic, original artwork, wall hangings, yarn | Leave a comment
A moody seascape, a far shore …..

Oils on card, framed with plain wood behind non reflective glass.
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November 15, 2014 | Categories: artwork | Tags: abstract, Art, arts, Arts Worker, Ellie Fiddes, landscape, oils, organic, original artwork, paint, seascape | Leave a comment
Got carried away with a bit of freestyle working!

On an October evening by the fire … …
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October 25, 2014 | Categories: artwork | Tags: abstract, Art, arts, drawings, Ellie Fiddes, new work, organic, original artwork, pen drawing, plants, psychedelic, retro, Shells, shepherd's purse, Spider web, vintage | Leave a comment
Another variation in colours – again drawn from a real leaf.

“When lyart leaves bestrow the yird …..”
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October 24, 2014 | Categories: artwork | Tags: Art, arts, Arts Worker, drawings, ellie, Ellie Fiddes, grey, organic, original artwork, psychedelic, sycamore, sycamore leaf, sycamore leaves | Leave a comment
Autumnn is here. Colourful ideas developing 🙂
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October 14, 2014 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Art, colours, flowers, foliage, gossamer, mixed media, organic, original artwork, psychedelic, spiderweb, web | Leave a comment