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, January 24, 2011

FAQ!!!!!

Yes, it's arrived, the FAQ page is up and running just look up at the bar on the top. I should possibly have called it ''questions I have only been asked once, last week''!!
If you want anything else answered just let me know. It was good fun putting it together actually.
Not much embroidery for you today. I spent so much time playing with the unmentionable and roaming and enjoying the quiet of my little house yesterday that there wasn't much time left for my needle. I did manage to add the crazy patchwork piece from last week to my throw though and here it is. One lemon buttonhole stitch seam and one turquoise cross stitch seam, the final, final piece of this particular puzzle.
Since posting these pictures I have spied a couple of tacking stitches that escaped me so I had better get on to that quick sharp. This now needs to be backed and I decided against Marimekko. Somebody pointed out to me that this little toe wrap will one day be an heirloom and we wouldn't want future generations presuming that it had come from the house of Marimekko would we?? Oh no, definitely not, so gingham it is and pink I think.