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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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

I made it!


Yes...the May newsletter is finished and it's still May...phew! I won't go into detail here, if it hasn't popped into your mailbox then you can read it on this page.
The exciting part is the new class....all the links and information are in the newsletter....
There was a little unscheduled post last night did you notice? Well there was nothing on TV! I think I am going to develop a bit of an obsession for photographing my work on top of painting and drawing and doodling. I love how it looks. Having said that my 'painting' archive is VERY small, hardly anything in it at all and I am wondering if it's possible to fit the creation of more paining into my days....also it's not something which I find myself able to do calmly and serenely either. I usually end up ripping my hair out so maybe I should stick to embroidery.