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, December 1, 2010

pillow overload...

Walked into my dining room, come workroom, come storage room, come computer room, come DINING room this morning and thought the elves had been in overnight!! I hadn't realised how much stuff I had made recently, it just kind of crept up on me. They are stacked, stacked I tell you. On the table where we eat, on a side cupboard, on a blanket box that I have in my bay window. I think I had better get a box for them or something, maybe this is the time I finally need to get organised. I don't think I will make any more soon either, some of these are christmas gifts and some are listed but for now I move on. Before I do though I give you number five.....the first images are of it's creation

and voila!! Here it is. I actually think I love this one a little too much. Now I am wishing that I had a sofa that nobody ever sat on, that I had a big room just to display all these safe in the knowledge that they would never be assaulted by somebody putting their derriere on them. Maybe I should ask santa for a chaise longue for christmas, it could always go in the shed....

So far I have used a few ''French'' phrases today. Absolutely unintentional but it does remind me that I must tell you about an e-mail I got this morning.....In French, which I had to translate on google. I do know a little French but not enough to wade through an e-mail so I popped it into google translator. Wish I hadn't bothered!! Basically it was informing me that my blog had a ''SLUGGISH'' appearance to it! Ha, bloody cheek! For a small fee they could remedy this...Oh could they now?? And my head is zipped up the back!!!!
Anyway, rude people aside, I am working on my throw as I said last time. Yesterday I joined existing pieces which you have already seen to the main part, embroidered another (tiny) section and today I aim to put together another piece.
An update on the white stuff.....we had some overnight on tuesday, main roads o.k. Not suffering nearly as much as other areas but I am chittered!!!
(chit·ter (c̸hit′ər)

intransitive verb
Brit., Dialectal to shiver with cold
and it's coming down again as we speak....
sluggish indeed.........