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 christmas shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas shopping. Show all posts

Friday, December 3, 2010

growing slowly....

There has been more progress on my throw. I didn't get much done yesterrday as I was christmas shopping, (more on that later) and basically I have only one new section to show you here, the cross stitch alpahabet, but finished sections have been added with stitch and some are pinned waiting for needle and thread. It is actually quite big now and I will try and take a picture of the whole thing when I have made a little more progress but for now I'm afraid you will have to make do with little glimpses.
In case you missed it I want to draw your attention to yesterdays post too. I put this up late, very late last night as in the absence of any lottery win I couldn't think of any other way to give you all a gift for christmas. It's not much but I felt it went a little way to wishing everyone a happy christmas.


Like I said, I went christmas shopping yetserday!! I slid and slipped my way around and bought some of the things I need, still more to do but I wasn't warm enough or brave enough yesterday to do any more than this. I am probably not giving too much away either as around 90% of what you can see here is for me!! I know, christmas shopping is supposed to be for others...what can I say, I have very poor self control and just can't resist all the gorgeous things out there!! Isn't the wrapping paper, (bottom pics) gorgeous!! I didn't leave the house for that. I got it here if you want some, love it!!

My plans for the weekend include putting together a piece of white. I do love the colour in my throw, the colour in my christmas shopping but it always comes back to white, I always have a need for white. Who knows I may also get my cards written and some gifts wrapped. I also hope we don't see any more snow, beautiful yes, pretty yes, mightily inconvenient and scary...yes. 
have a good one...x