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







Showing posts with label balls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label balls. Show all posts

Thursday, December 9, 2010

edges...


Back to front images today, kind of. The first picture is how the second, third etc picture looks now. I put this piece together to fill and edge where one piece of the throw doesn't meet another piece. I don't know if I should really tell you that though. It makes it even more obvious that I don't know what I'm doing, or that I am so disorganised I don't know which piece fits where! Me thinks this will happen again. It doesn't matter though, not to me anyway because I love this little edge a lot. So here it is pinned together ready to go....

These little balls are so pretty. I bought this fabric (a fine cotton lawn) at the show in Harrogate, a fat quarter, but I am so tempted to get on their website and order some more. I can resist anything but temptation so it's a definite I think!! This is quire narrow, around 3 inches and 12 inches long. I don't think I will add it to the throw yet, I want to keep it seperate for a while so that I can constantly touch it, look at it and let it feed more edges.

Tomorrow I venture north playing santa. The weather seems as if it has turned, it is much milder today, hopefully it will be a trouble free journey. Most of my gifts are wrapped and ready to go, just one or two left to do. I have nearly finished another colourful, gingham section for the throw and hope to be able to show you that soon. There are also design sheets on my mind, an opportunity on my mind, I am quite excited by that.....