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
I have also been titivating again. I got my fabric but as yet haven't made my curtains, tomorrow hopefully and I bought a little glass cupboard for the wall which is up but at the moment is empty. I tried a bit of imaginative draping of fabric next to the cupboard yesterday to give you an idea but the pictures were naff so I will try again when it's finished properly. My tumble dryer has broke, insert loud, blood curdling screams here, it was my freezer last month!! I am totally lost without it so need to go on a tumble dryer hunt which means visiting those huge shops where someone jumps on you the minute you step over the threshold. As for sewing....I don't know what to make next, terrible I know. No meaningful, inspirational forward thinking or planning has been going on, a sad indictment of me as a creative whizz. Something will probably come to me when I am fighting my way through all the damp washing that is lying around my house. Is it just me or do your neighbours come in the middle of the night and add to your washing pile too?? I swear it's breeding...
15 comments:
Beautiful! I've already said before, i love that pink.
(many times my English isn't enough to understand everything: what do you mean by prairie points???)
I love those hits of raspberry with the pink gingham. Delicious!
Delightful as ever, Karen!
As for the washing - if you've had as much rain as we've had you've been putting it off...!
love the raspberry circles making a path down the hexagon tiles. I invision a garden with hexagon tiles and raspberry circles in amongst the flowers. wouldn't that be grand. just go buy the dryer and soon it will all be over. I know how you feel as I just did that just a few weeks ago.
Very pretty. The raspberry silk looks just like buttons
Chop up some boxer shorts and make a bag, hee hee ..love Jan xx
:)
Thanks, Karen!
You have neighbours adding to your washing pile and I have gremlins that steal things in my studio. Must be a conspiracy! Seriously - I'm not a huge lover of pink, but I do like this piece. Must be that dupion silk that's doing it!!
I love this piece! It is wonderful. So aren't appliances a pain! I hope you are able to easily find a dryer... :-(
Sooo girlie - must be the influence of having your baby at home x
Glad you had a good time with your girl:-)Hope you find a dryer fast
Beautiful embroidery,just love the way you photograf your work
I know exactly what you mean about the washing! It appears from nowhere.
I so love the colours in your piece.
x
That gingham works so beautifully as hexagons; the directional variation of the checks is so effective.
I love your phrase 'leave room for the future'.
There are only two of us in the house, and the washing basket seems to be permanently full. I've often wondered how that happens. It hadn't occurred to me that it might be the neighbours...
this is just so beautiful, the perfect shade of pink!!! loveliest thoughts
Love the pink-even though I am a blue fan-this is stunning. You must like gingham as much as I like polka dots!
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