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 seams.French knots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seams.French knots. Show all posts

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Seams....



In order to convince the French Knot that it hadn't been usurped by cross stitch I reacquainted myself with it last night...a few short rows covering a gorgeous piece of vintage cutwork from my latest block. I then embellished seams....
It has been a bit mad around here for a few days...I have had strangers in my house doing things to my bathroom. I don't like having strangers in my bathroom. Yes, I know I asked them to come and I know that I now have a wonderful bathroom...still....strangers in the bathroom is not a good feeling for me although I do sense a good film title!
My inbox is crammed and I am going to attend to that soon....some time in the next 24 hours anyway because sadly I have people to feed, not strangers but people all the same.....