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







Monday, February 16, 2026

Hand stitched overlays.

 






I have started to add the hand stitched overlays to the pages of my little design notebook.

Little mushroom tags have also been added to some pages.

There is so much more I want to do in this little book.

(notebook measures 6x81/2 inches) 

I have calculated how many more overlays I need to make....thirteen.

I best get going then. 

 

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Patchwork

 


Do you remember these patchwork flowers?

I said I would definitely create more and that I had made extra.

Here is some of the 'extra' and there are more. 

The centres are under consideration.

To add something......or not. 

Saturday, February 14, 2026

A little page play

 


It's been a notebook morning.

Cutting papers, stitching pages, painting pages.

 

Friday, February 13, 2026

The past few days.

 



Tags, embellishments, embroidered and stitched papers, tiny artist book pages....

All ongoing explorations of a design theme.

I'm having so much fun with this.

Now I'm wondering where I can go next. 

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

A table of embroidery

 




I mentioned recently that I lost all public reference to my collection of embroidered sample books because of you know who.....(Typepad)

Insert some unladylike language here.

I also mentioned that I'd try to somehow post a little of that collection here and here we are.

A very brief video show and tell.

If there is anything you would like to see in more detail please just let me know.