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, July 3, 2026

It was a plan.....

 



Yes, more patchwork, more Grandmothers flower garden.

If you look at the first image there is quite a large piece of patchworked hexagons, it looks a little bit like Australia to me!

It's at the top of that image. 

A little while ago...OK.....quite  along time ago I had a plan for a single bed size patchwork coverlet.

That's as far as I got.

What can I say, distractions, daunted.....

But, last night, looking at my recently pieced Grandmothers flower garden patchwork it occurred to me that I could add them to the Australia piece.

Nothing would match.

It would be a mishmash of all sorts.

What do you reckon? 

"Mishmash" (a confused mixture or jumble) 

(I'm sure you know what mishmash means but I do love a definition) 


1 comment:

Jillayne said...

It's a beautiful mishmash (a word I seem to use often!) and I think they will all go together just fine - mixed florals are a wonderful thing!