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 grandmothers flower garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grandmothers flower garden. Show all posts

Saturday, August 22, 2026

Growing.....

 

Compare this to Wednesday...it's growing, maybe slowly but it's growing.

The smaller piece from Wednesday has been stitched to the main piece and there is a new small piece waiting to go on.

This is created from one inch hexagons.

At it's widest points the main piece measures twenty two by eleven inches, the small piece nine and a half by eight inches.

When I am stitching this I am tempted to remove the card templates from the central areas. 

Can anyone who knows about these things tell me if there's any reason I shouldn't do that? 

Saturday, August 8, 2026

Slowly growing patchwork.

 



You can read a blog post here about this piece.

It's growing slowly but as you can see I have piles of patchwork pieces ready to add to it. 

My favourite process here is making the actual 'grandmothers flower garden' pieces. 

It's meditative. It's relaxing and I do have a love of the repetitive. 

Friday, July 3, 2026

It was a plan.....

 



Yes, more patchwork, more Grandmothers flower garden.

If you look at the first image there is quite a large piece of patchworked hexagons, it looks a little bit like Australia to me!

It's at the top of that image. 

A little while ago...OK.....quite  along time ago I had a plan for a single bed size patchwork coverlet.

That's as far as I got.

What can I say, distractions, daunted.....

But, last night, looking at my recently pieced Grandmothers flower garden patchwork it occurred to me that I could add them to the Australia piece.

Nothing would match.

It would be a mishmash of all sorts.

What do you reckon? 

"Mishmash" (a confused mixture or jumble) 

(I'm sure you know what mishmash means but I do love a definition) 


Thursday, July 2, 2026

Grandmothers flower garden

 

A little patchwork today, Grandmothers flower garden, hexagons.

I love making these, I lose myself, repetitive, meditative stitching.

There are no plans for these as yet but that's OK, they're here, they will be used at some point.

I'm in no rush. 

Thanks so much for all the love on the 'pillows' earlier this week. It's really appreciated.

There are just these two left in the shop now. 

(if your country isn't listed for shipping please contact me and I will try and work something out)