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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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

fiddling about....

The daylight hours of yesterday were mostly spent cleaning...yes you read that right...cleaning. Giving me a couple of days clear run to not have to think about anything other than sewing...bliss. What did I do last night, started on hexagons, sketchbooks in mind. I was making good progress too until I decided it would be a good idea to tip a cup of coffee down myself!! One hour, one shower, more cleaning (getting the coffee up) and the ironing of clean clothes later I was back on the hexagons. So not much to show really for my well planned evening...Oh well, these things are sent to try us and all that.
This morning I had planned to put together another section for toe wrap two. Not to be sent off track I laid the pile of unstitched hexagons to one side....well away from the coffeee!! and another section is now pinned with more prairie points.

These three little hexagon flowers will find their way into my new sketchbooks, soon I hope but don't hold your breath. Each book has five stitched pieces in, I want to make six books, so that's thirty little pieces of embroidery required...three down twenty seven to go...
Now an invitation....do you have a hankering to dig, to rip up roads and pavements?? Come here, right outside my front door. Why not? everyone else has!! My other half is a nurse, on night shift, allegedly sleeping through today...ha!! We have the gas board digging the road up, we have the council digging the road up to renew tarmac so the gas board can dig it up. We have an unknown organisation pulling up paving slabs, the paving slab destruction company no doubt..
cave living tempting anyone else?