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Category Archives: art
Untitled
Well, I can’t carry on calling it Beardie Quilt, can I? And every artist, at some point in their life, produces something called ‘Untitled’. It turned out all right in the end. I like the back, too: I’ve added this … Continue reading
Posted in art, quilts, textile art
Tagged abstract, art quilt, embroidery, patchwork, quilting
18 Comments
Keeping calm
Still quilting Still embroidering Still bearding. Keep calm and carry on.
Posted in art, In progress, quilts, textile art
Tagged art quilt, embroidery, patchwork, quilting
9 Comments
Scraps Quilt 2
This is Scraps Quilt 2, which will be a gift and should be finished by the end of the year. This one will be very slightly different from Scraps Quilt 1: This time it’s 7″ blocks. I didn’t like the … Continue reading
Posted in art, In progress, patchwork, quilts
Tagged blocks, English paper piecing, patchwork, scraps
6 Comments
Revisiting
On the table today, an unfinished quilted piece that I rediscovered recently while tidying. Sometimes it can be interesting to revisit something from the past, just to see the difference between then and now. This is from several years ago … Continue reading
Looking
No, I’m not totally here yet… but today I belatedly turned over the new page of the Paul Klee calendar that hangs in my workroom, and I couldn’t help thinking… …wouldn’t this make a marvellous quilt?
In print
A big thank you to Jennifer of Sew Somerset magazine for featuring my mixed media samples book in the current issue, out today. This is little a cloth book I made a couple of years ago, when I was still … Continue reading
Posted in art, Cloth books, mixed media
Tagged cloth book, mixed media sample book, sew somerset
25 Comments
Reflections
As well as the larger series, which will be quilts, I’ll be working on some smaller pieces, which will be cloths – that is, not quilted. Just bits of cloth and stitch on a cloth ground. Something very honest and … Continue reading
Posted in art, In progress, Reflections
Tagged cloth, reflections, self portrait, stitch
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Time and Space
So with all the dyeing, rinsing, washing, rinsing, drying, ironing, cutting, sorting, folding, packaging, and mailing I’ve been doing recently, I have been not-stitching. At first this was a source of irritation and frustration, because stitching is what I do, … Continue reading
Posted in art, In progress, quilts, textile art
Tagged art, in progress, quilts, space, time
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A Rat’s Tale
Interrupting a busy week to share the story of a rat – and if you hate rats, read on. Perhaps you might change your mind. I don’t normally share a lot of personal or domestic information here, because this is … Continue reading
Posted in art, mixed media
Tagged Bilbo, Jenny Blair, LoveandPeas, mixed media, rat, stitch
22 Comments
Sleep
One of my favourite bits of Shakespeare, these lines come from Macbeth And last week’s piece is now sitting nicely in its own frame:
