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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Monday, September 12, 2011

ruching......





Those of us who are attending sewing classes have been ruching....ruching like there is no tomorrow in fact. I really must insist that you pop over to our little flickr group and have a look, some of these ladies could teach me a thing or two! JUST CLICK HERE. I am amazed, in awe and basically dumb struck at the wonderful things that are happening in my class...and I haven't had to give anyone a detention yet either....
I came home from my mini trip to London very late last night. It was great, I saw Helens new house and she is so settled in a lovely home with her lovely other half. I didn't venture anywhere near any shops so kept my pennies safe in my pocket. Well apart from petrol, don't get me started on that. You know you are being ripped off when you need a mortgage to fill your car with petrol!! and London drivers......I'm sorry but how can you be so rude! Nobody and I mean nobody gives an inch, nobody gives way to let you in when your lane is suddenly closed without warning, not an ounce of consideration did I encounter on the roads of London.I let people in, I give way ...I'm a northerner, maybe we aren't as stressed but you know stress isn't good for you. CHILL!! It may do you some good.....outraged, appalled...you get my drift....
It costs nothing to be nice, it's free......
So I am happy to be home in my courteous little patch of England with my sewing and my class of amazingly talented ladies and my needle and thread....