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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Friday, September 24, 2010

mine......

The very early stages of a gift to myself. Now don't hold your breath, these hexagons are tiny, 1 inch actually around 2.5cm. But I love them, they are so cute! Bearing in mind that I want a big, snuggly, beautiful throw bigger than a metre we may be here for some time!! I don't plan to do it all in hexagons infact in a minute I am going to put some white stuff together to go with these. I am thinking panels of different things all joined together. What do you reckon? The hexagons are just going to be randomly placed, no whoop de doo pattern or amazing calculations going on, just put them wherever and see what happens.




Today I had my hair cut and no....I didn't leave the house, she came here!! I don't know what it is but I absolutely can't abide having my hair cut, wierd? Maybe. Just another thing on the list that adds to my uniqueness I say!
Now I have a treat for you, sharing those moments that make a mother proud and a feeble one cry, (like me). My son the star was featured on the BBC last night. His band are called Searching for Seraphim and if you click here you can listen too. Just move the slider forward to 16minutes and 30 seconds and you can share around 3 minutes of my claim to fame! Now what's 3 minutes between friends?? He does speak, he learnt how to do that a while ago, his name is James and there is also one of their new songs for you to enjoy. Infact I order you to enjoy! Is that enough begging for one day?...........