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Article 9
I posted last week about the frustrations of not being able to get down to any stitching, so last night as the medieval historian was working, I got down to some serious sewing in my workroom....
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Blue, blue, electric blue
I posted last week about the frustrations of not being able to get down to any stitching, so last night as the medieval historian was working, I got down to some serious sewing in my workroom....
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Back to blog
Well, glory be, the Festival of Marking 2012 is over. I finished this afternoon, and am now a free woman for the next three days at least. While I have been chained to the red pen I haven’t done much...
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What I did at the weekend – Turf, surf, sky with Basil Kardasis, Heart Space...
Salmon skin painted and gilded on black silk chiffon Imagine the scene: it’s, say, a wet Wednesday in the pseudo November we have been enjoying here in June in the UK. The marking is finished but your...
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What I learned about creativity from Nick Cave this week
There aren’t many of us left, but I am one of the few remaining people who still watches television programmes roughly when they go out. We’ve got one of those fantastic digital things that will...
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The York Exhibiiton
I was talking to the Medieval Historian this morning and saying that I seem to have had a medium-sized skip of affirmation parked outside the house for a month which has been shovelled in through...
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Something of a thought for the day.
Quick post today, as a pile of marking has just shown up. I was idly leafing through a rather nice book with an awful title: Living the Creative Life by Rice Freeman-Zachery, and I came across...
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Threads of Identity V
Those of you who have been reading the blog for some time may remember that I produced a series of small pieces based on Laura Ashley fabric in a sort of memory box arrangement with other artifacts....
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My latest (small) quilt
Most quilters I know have a travelling project, something they can take with them on holiday, or on a long journey, or for the really obsessive, to do in waiting rooms on visits to the doctors or...
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What I did at the weekend
Well, I had a very busy and routine week last week. I taught the same two seminars over and over again to the point where I wasn’t entirely sure what I had said in any of them. I am not...
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What I did on Bank Holiday Monday
Well now, Easter is associated with rabbits, as we know. A couple of months ago I bought a kit to make this rabbit in a small sewing shop on Gloucester Road, the street of still mainly independent...
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On not having a Kaffe Fassett quilt
I haven’t posted much recently because I am mainly trying to finish things off and there isn’t much to show. I have taken two quilts to be professionally quilted which is a great way of getting...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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