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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Saturday, January 22, 2011

can't keep away...

I know, I know, I was going to stay away and work....well I have been working and I've been shopping and I've cleaned up and I've watched an excellent film and I have a new keyboard that actually has an ''s'' and an ''a'' and a ''y'' and a ''t''. O.K. you get the message, my keyboard was bare due to all the inane drivel I type on here. I have also added yesterdays piece to the toe wrap. I placed it so that the lace edge meets a broderie anglaise trimmed edge.
In the other direction it lies across a patchwork section and a white section and I like how with it being flimsy and lace it doesn't completely obscure the cloth underneath.
Thanks too for all your votes..(see p.s. below) at the moment I am in the lead for most annoying Englishwoman, running close to the winner for worst blogger and I am to be deported next tuesday after doing a brief stint as Prime Minister!!
Right Karen, get off the damned computer and do some proper work!!!