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 running stitch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label running stitch. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

titivated....



Yesterdays little piece has been titivated to exhaustion and is now finished, damp stretched and ready for whatever I decide to do with it...I do have a plan but I am going to let my girls in on that one first....sorry! It really is very delicate and measures maybe five inches square so it is tiny too.
I am hunting for time at the moment, time to develop 'extending embellishment', time to make a suggested equipment list, time to create a blog and a flickr group, time please...pretty please and meanwhile the ironing pile is growing! Also....big U turn here, embroider, embellish, create has been listed again.....don't ask....I was too quick to take that one off....enquiries caused that little change of plan...
so there isn't much of an exciting nature happening here at the moment, not much to bore you with at all today so go and treat yourself instead....go here and see the gorgeous thing my girls are creating....

Thursday, February 17, 2011

little things for little books...

Teeny, tiny embroideries for the next batch of sketchbooks....if they ever happen. I need thirty pieces, so far I have six. Still it's three more than the other day. Here they are laying on another finished section of toe wrap two.
I made these last night, don't know how. I was so exhausted last night it was all kind of a fog. I even went to bed early, well early for me. I don't like going to bed early...I might miss something..and to prove my point, last time I went to bed early there was an earthquake! Yes, an earthquake. I did feel it in bed but how much better would it have been to experience that standing upright???
Anyway due to the lack of earthquakes, this is the little part of toe wrap two that was finished before I took to my bed. Simple running stitch. Sometimes that's all you need, less is more and all that.
Thanks to all of you who contributed to the 
''is this blog of drivel too slow to load'' debate.
 It seems for most of you the answer is no, good. For those who were having problems the removal of the lower toolbar seems to have helped. Can't believe I made a technological decision that actually worked!! Just call me Einstein.

p.s. sorry!! should have said, the little pieces are 1.5 inches square.