For centuries women have used cloth as a tool of comfort and as an expression of beauty within their homes. Creating cloth for warmth, cloth for shelter, our female predecessors embellished these linens with hand stitch using laborious and time consuming techniques thereby enhancing the functional beauty of objects which enveloped and protected their families. Inspired by these women I hope my creations pay tribute to and recognise the devotion expressed in cloth by our female ancestors .







''the use of traditional often time consuming process alludes to the devotion of a mother''. c K. A. Ruane 2007







Thursday, May 3, 2012

featured

I have been featured on a lovely blog from Iceland!! I have always wanted to visit Iceland and never have but at least my work gets there!!
I'm off to make TWO videos...one for my extending girls, the other for my new class. I will be back later with images of my new piece....

5 comments:

Elizabeth said...

You might not get there but your work landed into some very talented hands!

Enjoy yourself while making your video's.

ersimarina said...

Congratulations, Karen. Your work embellishes any blog or site :))

deanna7trees said...

oh so wonderful.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations, indeed!

Magpie's Mumblings said...

Lovely - you deserve all the accolades you get. I really enjoyed a little peek through her work too and she is definitely a genius with knitting.