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 trim. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

white.....

White, don't you just love it. This is the next section for my throw. I actually measured this piece, enough randomness, if I continued making the sections by guesswork they would eventually stop fitting together. So this section is 9 x 7 inches, I need another piece the same size, then I will fit one of the hexagon pieces in and see where we are at that point. On this piece I have used some gorgeous lace from the corner of a hanky and a tiny piece of eyelet trim. I ordered 2 metres of this trim online and it never arrived so I contacted the seller and she kindly let me have a piece around 10 inches long. That was all that was left and as it is vintage alas I can have no more. The package still hasn't arrived, I ordered in July, so I fear I will never have any more of this. It is the trim which is hanging to the left of the buttons on the picture above. Isn't it beautiful? so delicate. You will be pleased to hear that I have stopped crying. I have the facebook gadget I wanted but yes, the gobbledegook remains at the top of the page. That is there for one reason only....fear. It was removing that which led to the near destruction of this blog last time so I await the arrival of courage and bravery before I try again. Or perhaps I should leave it there forever as a reminder to everyone else not to mess around with html codes...

So....plans? Well at the moment I have a man in the house taking away a small section of a wall which was showing signs of damp. Now this section is around 3 foot square, miniscule in comparison to the area of a whole house... why then is there dust everywhere, muck all over, disruption at every turn, My nerves can't stand it, truly I am on the edge so I am hiding in my dining room doing this and counting very slowly to ten whilst taking very deep breaths...
When that particular nightmare is over I need to join this white piece to my throw and add the hexagon section. BUT....christmas presents........I MUST piece together a cushion and start making my gifts, it's creeping up on us you know and I also have to send off the scrappy bits of cloth to my winners, yes, sorry girls I haven't done it yet!!!