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







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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

embellishing...

I'm early! Did I catch you by suprise?? The skirt hunt happened yesterday afternoon, found a spare hour and off I went. No prizes for guessing that it was a complete waste of time..came home skirtless. So I will have to get it online...should have just done that in the first place I hear you cry, well yes, I know that now. Ten availabe it says so I am on to it straight after this. I also managed to embellish a little bit of toe wrap two, the stripey loops bit. I am fiinding it quite difficult to work with the pale red plaid fabric, lost for ideas really on what will match it thread wise, that's why I have gone with the safe option of white. I had to include the cloth as it is in other sections but from now on the use will be very minimal, I don't like not knowing what to do with something.

Today is lining hook and eye cushion day. My duck feather cushion pads have arrived...yes you heard right...duck feather, very posh!! Last night I had a bit of a revelation whilst I was dropping off to sleep and it has led  to me planning on making another hook and eye cushion, the same yet different and that way these picky clients will have a choice of three. If they don't like any of them at least there will be very posh cushions chez moi! I am also booking train tickets today, off to London next friday for a long weekend and the M6 on a friday tea time appeals not at all...would rather stick pins in my eyes so the train it is...