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







Thursday, February 26, 2026

My current embroidery hoop and another type of overlay.

 



My current project is all consuming. 

I am not working on anything else. 

A reminder, there's a wrapping cloth and a design notebook. 

More painted cloth is being embellished for the wrapping cloth and 'different' overlays are being created for the design notebook.

There are plans for more hand made embellshments for the notebook to accompany my little mushroom tags. 

Can you tell I am enjoying this? 

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3 comments:

Rachel said...

Oh, we can definitely tell you are having fun!

February 26, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Jillayne said...

I sure can tell and it looks fabulous - that new overlay is wonderful!

February 26, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Magpie's Mumblings said...

I feel sorry for those people who don't worth with threads and cloth - they are missing out on all our fun!

February 28, 2026 at 2:16 PM

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