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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







Monday, January 19, 2026

More bits and pieces.

 




In my last post I was rescuing homeless samples, adding more embellishment and joining them to create larger pieces.
 
The pieces here today live in the same cabinet.
 The needlecase and pin pillow were created in class.
 
The other two pieces here are stitched papers. Altered with machine stitch before hand embroidery was added. They are also homeless samples I guess.
 
I'm thinking they could become the start of  a new artist book. 


Saturday, January 17, 2026

Bits and pieces.

 



I'm gathering homeless embroidered samples.

They will be joined, added to, made bigger, embellished more and be safely preserved inside another cloth book, yes another one. 

I lost my collection of 'cloth book' references, they were in the other place. 

Maybe I should create a page for them here. 

Friday, January 16, 2026

Embellishments

 

Hand stitched embellishments for this project.

Yes, they were fiddly! My girls in class won't be shocked to hear that ha ha.

The little square pieces are one inch in size, the tiny tag pieces measure one inch by half an inch.

If you can't source pieces to fit with your colour and pattern choices then why not make them youself? 

 

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

A patchwork edge.

 



A little patchwork.

Twenty one half inch octagons, an edge for an embroidered sample.

For now it is just pinned.

Once it has been sewn into place I think this one will be finished. 

Monday, January 12, 2026

Today


My plans for today.

A little patchwork....octagons.

More work on my current design project.