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
now I am basting and backing, Sewing on the machine, tiny stitches, a nightmare to unpick should I have to. I have done this so many time before but always at the back of my mind I am terrified I will turn my work the right side out and it will be uneven, no straight edges, cock eyed for want of a better expression. Wish me luck!
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I'm wishing you loads of luck! And thank you for your help once again.
I know that feeling so well. Just earlier today I was rounding and backing the spine of my competition book and giving it a little edge treatment. All of them are things that I've done tens or hundreds of times, but I was still freaking out. All went well, and now my husband has a permission to talk out loud again.
I'm wishing you the best of luck!
Oh Karen, I know just what you mean. This is so utterly breathtaking to watch.
Have you thought about marketing this sort of thing for a mother to give to her daughter as she marries? I know your post about them and the tradition behind them speaks of babies, but mum's and dad's preparing for their daughters wedding just may be market ready to tap.
You probably have, but well, for what it is worth.
Unpicking silk headbands can be painful too! In the end I just cut the whole thing off. Life goes on. And now I've got a pretty headband on my competition book. An headband. Now I need to make another as pretty as the first one...
You make my day every time I read your blog. Thank you for that! There's a little award waiting for you in my blog!
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