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Squaring up quilts
Badly hanging quilt This is another quick post. You may remember that I was horrified by just how badly this quilt hung at the Bristol Quilters’s recent exhibition. Well, in the comments I received...
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Just to let you know I am still here
I haven’t posted anything for far too long and that’s because I am at that point which a lot of you will recognise of frantically trying finish a quilt for an exhibition. I wouldn’t exactly use the...
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Joy in work: feathers
Very occasionally I get to write one of these posts about when a piece of work just goes amazingly well. This is one of those occasions. It feels like I just turn up and provide the hands but the...
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Moon quilt
This is my most recently finished quilt. It isn’t the greatest photo of it because I thought I could either wait until I could get a great shot or write the post and the latter won. There are a few...
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More applique
This is the latest of my Mandy Pattullo/Laura Ashley pieces. The background is pieced paper (English method) hexagon patchwork with an overlay of Laura Ashley fabric applique. I had thought that I...
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Concerning dolls and perfection
For my birthday, my very generous mother bought me a Mimi Kirchner doll. I have wanted one of Kirchner’s dolls since I came across her work in a book on doll making and used it to create my Laura...
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What I did at the weekend
Solomon Quilt This is a small quilt (about 2 feet/ 60 cm square) which I am proud to say I made on Saturday afternoon. I am proud of this because it demonstrates expertise. I wanted to make a quilt as...
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van Gogh inspiration purple and yellow part deux
This yellow and purple piece was based on experimenting with buttonhole stitch and detached chain or laisy daisy stitch. I really liked the delicacy of stitching into the buttonhole stitch with...
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van Gogh in purple and yellow
This is the second sample from the Vincent van Gogh workshop, this time working with purple and yellow, which co-incidentally were the colours of my school uniform. I love this combination, although...
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What I did at the weekend
If you read my previous post you will know that I have had a very busy time recently. So this weekend, although I have a head buzzing with Laura Ashley ideas which need making, I found myself making...
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On the joy of getting something right
Last week I had a particularly bad day at work. I went to a meeting where just about every behaviour I warn students about was on display. So, no-one (except idiotic me) was prepared to stand up to...
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Sorry about the gap
I’m very sorry that I haven’t posted much this month. Oddly May-July is a really busy time for me and a lot of academics. We have exams, exam marking, exam boards, external examining of other...
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Learning Medieval Embroidery at the Ashmolean
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that there were several things I wanted to blog about: drawing armour at the Wallace Collection, and drawing zentangles, then there was the Kevin Coates exhibition...
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What I did on Sunday
Well, I should have been working at the day job, but for some reason I have the big Urge to Create yesterday and so I gave in. I finished the last of the little Laura panels just after lunch and I went...
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Linda Miller at Bristol Quilters
At Bristol Quilters last night we had a really great talk by Linda Miller who is a professional embroiderer. It was particularly interesting because she talked as much about her business as about her...
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What I did at the weekend
I had a great day on Sunday after a not very thrilling week. I have been working on a new series of small pieces as part of my big Laura Ashley project. I am making some little Saint Lauras as part...
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Second of my touch pieces
When I first started the Walter Benjamin ‘Destructive Character’ piece, I thought I would do something around deconstructed stitching, which went through a bit of a vogue in the 1990s. Basically it’s...
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First of my touch pieces
I am currently working on a series of touch pieces for my talk at SCOS at the weekend. I can’t cart the book itself all the way to Poland so I am making the equivalent of a touch table. This one...
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Our love is here to stay
I have finally more or less finished this artist’s book on Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I am mightily relieved as the conference paper is a week on Sunday and I have run out of...
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Walter Benjamin Artist’s Book – Progress
I blogged recently about the panel to make up the cover for the Walter Benjamin ‘Destructive Character’ artist’s book. I have now finished the first half of the panel, the part based on the crazy...
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