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







Friday, September 26, 2025

Playing again

 


Hi everyone, thanks for hanging in with me.

Life is still a little 'off' after the passing of my mum but I'm taking baby steps.

My embroidery mojo was missing for a while, it's back but not fully.

I have been sewing but aimlessly, mostly just covering paper patchwork templates, losing myself in thought.

Today I gave myself a talking to and got these bits out to play with, paper pieces, artist book pieces, surface design pieces. 

(they're on my ironing board here, hence the towel you might spot in the background) 

To the girls in my class...you're amazing, supportive, the best.

I'm hoping to have more videos for you in the next couple of weeks and maybe even a Zoom very soon. I'll let you know. 

There are just a few more days now until Typepad is no more.

For those of you who have taken my past classes, I will get the video links for you in the near future.

That is going to be a huge task so please bear with me on that one. 

Also, I am led to believe that the images I copied and pasted here within posts from my Typepad blog will not survive the shutdown. They will vanish.

I honestly can't tell you how devastated I am about this whole Typepad situation. 

Thirteen years of work destroyed for reasons out of my control. 

I do have the images and could upload them again but once more.....a huge task at a time when I have my mums estate to deal with as next of kin, a house, a home to empty and prepare for sale, in a different town 75 miles away. An inquest to prepare for, forms to fill and on and on....

Thanks Typepad.

Anyway....hopefully it's onwards and upwards creatively.

Today is a start. Day one. 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Big hugs Karen, my mom passed in May and I am still off. Hang in there!

Karen said...

Love to you too, so, so sad x