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







Sunday, October 12, 2025

In progress. Hand embroidery.

 



A large panel, 23x15 inches of white cotton seersucker fabric, applique, sequins, bullion knots and gimp.

This will be the front cover of my latest embroidered sample cloth book.

I've added a few images below of the pages for this book because once again.........

Typepad stole my original post.

(can you tell it still hurts) 

I've been thinking about my embroidered sample books, there are a few.

I may create a page on here dedicated to those.

If I do I will let you know.






 This book started life in my online learning group.

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 Finally....a little video which also dissapeared with my Typepad blog.

 (this video was created some time ago. Discussion here on day to day topics may no longer be relevant)

 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

For the love of cloth, pattern and colour... these are glorious Karen 😍

Rachel said...

Lovely to see all the colour and texture together. You are not the only person I know of who is cursing Typepad..

Magpie's Mumblings said...

The stitching on that lovely textured background looks so pretty. Reminds me of balloons!