tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46074744577939996892024-03-08T03:34:25.791-08:00Cherry CroftJudithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-81710765775822117922016-09-14T06:38:00.005-07:002016-09-14T06:38:42.891-07:00Another exhibition!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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But this time it's my very own exhibition - yes ... just me!! I've been working towards this for what seems like a very long time and indeed the pieces have been stitched over several years. There was a real mixture of emotions as I walked out of the gallery space after hanging them and the house looks very bare without all my lace and my books. So I thought I would share some pictures here, even though you will have seen some of them before.<br />
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Red Square - inspired by a memorable holiday in Moscow</div>
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Fairy Garden - inspired by the Fairy Garden at Cannon Hall </div>
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Autumn Leaves - inspired by falling leaves on a sunny Autumn day - you know the days when dust motes sparkle in the air</div>
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Strange Fruit - very loosely inspired by a pomegranate</div>
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Carnival! - a Venetian style carnival mask</div>
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Lace Trio - the butterfly at the top of this trio was the second piece of needle lace that I ever made. The other two pieces are examples of Point-de-Gaze lace</div>
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Butterfly #2 - What can I say ... I love stitching butterflies<br />
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17th Century Echo - a very much enlarged copy of a motif from a piece of 17th century Venetian Gros Point lace in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London</div>
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Out of Africa - a design by Ros Hills</div>
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Clematis - inspired by the plants in my garden</div>
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Seascape</div>
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And then there are the boxes ...</div>
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Garden Casket - this has butterflies around the sides of the lid and flowers on the top<br />
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Sycamore box</div>
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The Fairies<br />
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The Lewis Chessmen<br />
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Playing With Rainbows<br />
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The front cover of my stump garden sketchbook</div>
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-55123861299383814232016-08-14T05:31:00.001-07:002016-08-14T05:31:40.674-07:00Festival of Quilts 2016If there's still anyone out there reading this blog I'm truly sorry for my poor attendance here. However I thought that some of you might like to see some of the quilts which caught my eye at the Festival of Quilts yesterday. It's a huge show and very tiring to walk around the whole thing but there were some real beauties there to admire and some extremely clever quilters who displayed their work. Way out of my league! I can only stand in awe!<br />
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Most of my favourites were in the art quilt sections but this traditional hand-pieced hexagon quilt was just so beautiful.<br />
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A deconstructed hexagon quilt!<br />
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Lots of colourful spirals on this one<br />
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This quilt (above) was called sunrise ... <br />
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and this one is sunset<br />
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A colourful and cleverly pieced barcode<br />
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Lovely little patches and scraps of embroidery joined together for this wallhanging.<br />
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This one is by the very talented Cas Holmes<br />
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And last, but not least, two extremely large and beautifully embroidered eyes - one open and one closed.<br />
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It was a tiring but very inspiring day!<br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-59947891316910585302016-06-12T05:31:00.003-07:002016-06-12T05:31:44.782-07:00The year half gone already!!I can hardly believe that it's already the middle of June. It is a little scary how quickly time passes as you grow older, and there's definitely beginning to be a feeling of not having enough time to finish everything I wanted or planned to do. I'm aware that, even as I write those words that it sounds a lot more negative than I actually feel however. And so onto more positive things although I have very little stitching to show you today.<br />
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I'm fresh back from a week of visiting my son and daughter in London and thought I'd share a few of the places I visited and some of the things that inspired me whilst I was down there. I spent most of my week in Walthamstow and revisited the William Morris Gallery. I love Morris' designs and am impressed and inspired by how much he did with his life - artist, printmaker, designer, poet, social reformer, political activist ... but this time I'm just sharing a couple of photographs and neither of them are of his work.<br />
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These plants (lots of them) are in the Gallery garden and the leaves appear in several of Morris' designs. I love the architectural nature of the whole plant, the shape of the leaves and the silvery sheen they have when the light catches them just so.<br />
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There was an exhibition in the Gallery of African fabric and I was particularly struck by this beautiful dress, especially the way in which the fabric design has been used to such great effect. You can also just see another piece on the wall which is edged with pictures of Nelson Mandela.<br />
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Here it is in more detail ...<br />
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Mother goose and her goslings in the park behind the Gallery.<br />
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I was also introduced to a shop which goes by the wonderful name of God's Own Junkyard, where they stock hundreds of neon signs. ...<br />
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... love hearts galore ...<br />
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... a Chanel angel ...<br />
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... True love never dies.<br />
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This globe is covered with tiny photographs of every solar eclipse ever recorded and they are reflected out onto the walls of the room as tiny pinpoints of light as the globe slowly rotates. A brilliant exhibition at Somerset House.</div>
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I was also inspired by this beautiful lace-like roof at the Westfield Shopping Centre.<br />
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And finally, just a little stitching to show you ...<br />
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I made this piece of lace as a house-warming gift for my son and his partner. Entitled 'Hive'.<br /><br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-71240863130393668272016-04-17T05:37:00.003-07:002016-04-17T05:37:20.592-07:00City and Guilds progressI just completed Module 2 of the City and Guilds Embroidery course I'm working on with Distant Stitch and thought I'd share some photos with you.<br />
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The brief was to make a three dimensional embroidered useful object inspired by animal print.<br />
During the months it has taken me to work through all the research, design exercises, samples, etc, etc I found I was most inspired by lizards. The prairie points on the lid of my box are not only inspired by the spines on the lizards' backs, but also by the dragon back roof on Gaudi's Casa Batllo in Barcelona.<br />
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All the fabrics were dyed by me and then many of them machine embroidered before being cut and pieced to make the patchwork body and lining of the box.<br />
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The lining is slightly padded and hand stitched in random lines of running stitch using a soft Coton a Broder thread in off white.<br />
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I have to say that I'm absolutely delighted with the way this has turned out - much better than I sometimes thought it would do.<br />
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In and amongst the coursework I've been stitching a few French knots onto this little rockery.</div>
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I also took some time off recently for a day out in Haworth to visit the Bronte Museum in this 200th anniversary year of Charlotte's birth. It was lovely to revisit the Parsonage Museum and see the new exhibits of tiny scraps of fabric from some of the gowns she wore and her tiny gloves and shoes. Walking round the museum it is so easy to envisage the sisters reading out their books to each other as they sat together in the parlour in an evening.<br />
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Another day out to Salts Mill in Saltaire. For those of you not fortunate enough to have visited this huge memorial to England's industrial age, the mill has now been turned over to exhibition spaces, the inevitable cafe's and sales spaces which contain luxury homewares, art materials and books on every subject imaginable. It is interesting to see little reminders of the mill's past life in the structure of the building and to imagine it filled with looms and people and deafening noise.<br />
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And finally a picture taken in our town centre of a cherry blossom tree in full bloom. Spring is truly here!</div>
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-49766669442624329712016-02-21T04:54:00.001-08:002016-02-21T04:54:05.404-08:00Dropping in for a chatThought I would drop in for a quick chat about what I've been doing since my last post...<br />
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The City and Guilds course in Embroidery, which I'm doing with Distant Stitch is still ongoing and the details of all the work for that are on my other blog, which you can find at <a href="http://judithsstitchingjourney.blogspot.co.uk/">http://judithsstitchingjourney.blogspot.co.uk/ </a><br />
The topic for my current module is Animal Print, and to ensure that we concentrate on the pattern, rather than the glorious colours, we're working in monochrome and using patchwork and machine stitch. The course as a whole is definitely proving to be a challenge, but one that I'm enjoying. It is keeping my mind active, which was one of my reasons for taking it on in the first place.<br />
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I had to stitch a tiny piece of needle-lace, inspired by this beautiful lizard ...<br />
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You can see the drawing I did of that section on his cheek, from which I took my pattern. <br />
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I'm a workshop addict, as some of you who have seen previous posts might well have gathered already. So, as if the City and Guilds wasn't enough, I can't stay away from other classes in the meantime, and this year is proving to be no exception.<br />
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At the beginning of February I signed up for another of Kathy Shaw's <a href="http://www.shawkl.com/">http://www.shawkl.com</a>/ crazy patchwork classes, and this is what I've done so far.<br />
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A bare winter tree,<br />
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and a second tree, this time with leaves,<br />
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a cute little blue beaded spider,<br />
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a little dog barking at an oversized butterfly, and a grape vine.<br />
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And then, yesterday, something a little different ... a bookbinding class at our local art materials shop. This was huge fun and we produced five little books during the day.<br />
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The pink book is a simple pamphlet stitched book, the orange and brown ones have different varieties of Japanese stab binding, and the striped book has a proper hard cover, with end papers and bound spine. The fifth book, which I didn't photograph has a coptic binding. As you know, I've made quite a few fabric books over the years and this will feed into that particular addiction quite nicely.<br />
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Finally, a photograph I took recently on a rare (for this winter) fine day in our local park. Black lace trees against a beautiful blue sky.<br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-14498168204162390002015-10-15T06:23:00.001-07:002015-10-15T06:23:20.495-07:00Singing the joys of autumn<br />
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It's autumn here in the UK and that is my favourite season of the year! I love the colours - all those warm golds and oranges. I love the scents - that very distinctive, but oh so difficult to put into words, scent of shortening days, of falling leaves, of ripening fruit and almost imperceptible decay. I love the chill in the early morning air, and pulling the curtains and snuggling under a blanket in front of the fire in the evening.<br />
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John Keats' "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness".<br />
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I've begun a patchwork bag in colours to celebrate the season.<br />
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This pattern is called a Friendship Star. The star on the other side of the bag has the fabrics reversed so the star there is patterned on a plain background.<br />
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I've also just returned from a week with my lace tutor in Wales, where I spent a blissful week stitching circles... <br />
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Just samples which I'll display in a book together with their instructions as a record for future projects. Now I'm trawling through all my needlelace books to find more designs to add to my collection.<br />
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While I was in Wales I found this piece of antique Casalguidi embroidery in an antique shop. Well I couldn't resist could I?<br />
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It's a little bag with embroidery across the front, knotted tassels on the two bottom corners, and a drawstring around the top. I shall probably use it as a project bag for my embroidery as I do like to have my works in progress inside a pretty fabric bag. I've done a little of this type of embroidery myself in the past (I may well have shared these photographs before).<br />
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I thought it was about time (long overdue actually) that I posted a little about what I've been up to. I'm busy with my City and Guilds in Embroidery which I'm doing by distance learning with Distant Stitch. I'm really, really enjoying it but sticking to a schedule when you're working alone is not easy. I'm finding some of the work quite a challenge too - not the stitching, I'm enjoying the stitching, but some of the methods for the design work are new to me and some days I definitely feel way outside my comfort zone. Not that that is a bad thing of course. New challenges are important and certainly part of why I decided to do the course, but that doesn't make it easy.<br />
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Anyhow ... a bit of eye candy first of all from the Festival of Quilts last month which I attended for the first time with a local patchwork group. I'm more attracted to the art quilts (as you'll see from the quilts I chose to photograph) but this first image of a tiny miniature quilt caught my eye. Such intricate work and beautifully stitched.<br />
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I love the colours on this next quilt - the progression from the cool blues, through yellow to the pops of pink and red over on the right. <br />
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This still life quilt of a vase of flowers, bowl of fruit and an open book is so delicate. I'd love to have this one hanging on my wall. <br />
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A real contrast to the last image is this quilt in fiery reds and oranges against the cooler blue of the background. Gorgeous! <br />
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This one is reminiscent (to me) of church buildings in Russia with the icons and all that gold.<br />
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A positive rainbow in this next one with such intricate scrollwork - another miniature quilt. <br />
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and another - I just love all these reds, pinks and oranges - circles in squares.<br />
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Last week my brother came to stay with me and we went to the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield (among other places). If you've never been and you find yourself in the area do go along. The displays are changed regularly though, of course, there are always pieces by Barbara Hepworth there.<br />
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I loved this small golden sculpture. <br /><br />
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and an unusual view inside the model for the piece of her work which hangs on the side of the John Lewis store in London.<br />
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And finally - just to prove that I am doing some stitching - here are the final samples for the two modules of my City and Guilds course that I've completed so far. <br />
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This needlelace piece was based on a stone wall - several layers of random lace.<br />
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and this piece for the module on stars was intended to show growth and disintegration. My decision to use french knot slips and cutwork was based on a section of painted tile in the town centre where the paint was peeling off and the area was covered in lichen.<br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-34697934096111680252015-03-08T06:54:00.004-07:002015-03-08T06:54:37.470-07:00February's finishedTime for a round-up of the stitching I've been doing during the past few weeks. Most of the things I've done have been for my recently started City and Guilds embroidery course so there have been lots of stitch and thread samples and experiments which I won't bore you with here. There are a couple of more resolved pieces though ...<br />
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For some reason Blogger has decided to put this and the next photograph up sideways and I can't seem to change it. In each case the top of the image is actually the left hand edge of the piece. The project is all about a stone wall so these are sections of the wall, worked first in canvas work <br />
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and then in needle-lace. I actually worked two layers of lace in some parts of this piece to give a better indication of texture and the mix of colours.<br />
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I also finished another crazy patchwork piece which will probably end up as a book cover at some point. <br />
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and finally this piece of hardanger and couching. Aren't the colours joyous?!!<br />
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After what has felt like quite a long cold winter here in Yorkshire the garden is springing into bloom and it feels so good to get out there when the sun is shining and enjoy the sights and sounds of the earth coming back to life.<br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-77340890245736073382015-02-01T06:55:00.000-08:002015-02-01T06:55:32.212-08:00New year - new adventureI'm not even going to comment on how long it is since I was last here. Christmas happened, with lots of visitors over a three week period, but even that is now long gone. Projects got finished (some at least), resolutions were made. I've often wished that I'd had the opportunity to do a proper textile course. I do lots of workshops but none that lead to a recognised qualification. Yes, life got in the way, and I don't regret anything that I have done. The qualifications that I have and the courses that I did were related to work and when the family were at home there was never the money available for a lengthy and ultimately purely recreational course. However, over the past few months I've been thinking more and more about this and decided that it really is probably a case of now or never and, working on the principle that it is only ever the things that you didn't do that bring the greatest regrets, I've signed up to do a City and Guilds course in embroidery. It will be done distant learning as I have neither the opportunity nor the inclination to go along to a regular class at my age. So - watch this space as I share some of the projects that come out of that particular new adventure.<br />
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Now it's time for a little eye candy - some of my completed projects<br />
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A linen pouch to hold my current embroidery project.<br />
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A ribbon embroidered pincushion which will surely never feel the prick of a pin!<br />
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and last but not least my cross stitched Russian icon of Mother of God<br />
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And finally some flowers I bought this week to remind myself that even though the world outside is cold and grey, spring is surely on its way<br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-26320029172091505602014-10-19T05:52:00.004-07:002014-10-19T05:52:28.675-07:00Poppies and some scrapsI've been away for a couple of weeks in London. The main purpose of my visit, apart from visiting my family (of course), was to see these ...<br />
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... ceramic poppies at the Tower of London.<br />
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A poppy has been 'planted' for each British man and woman who lost their lives in the first world war. They spill out of the top of the wall and they spread around three sides of the tower in what would originally have been the moat, because that is where the men gathered before marching off to fight.<br />
It is a very moving sight, to think of so many lives lost in a war that was supposed to end all wars. Sometimes it seems that we've learned nothing at all in the past hundred years!!<br />
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Stitching whilst I was away was quite minimal, as you might imagine, but I did work on these little patches. <br />
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They're all made up of pieces of vintage lace stitched onto scraps of old men's shirting fabric.<br />
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Lots of bullion knots, french knots, buttonhole bars and wrapped threads.<br />
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I love this piece which says 'home'! It came from the edge of a tablecloth which had obviously been worked to welcome someone home after a sea voyage as there were ships along with the words 'Welcome home' worked into the crochet border.<br />
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Not entirely sure yet what they're destined for ...<br />
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... maybe a patchwork piece, or a bag, or a cushion ...<br />
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... or maybe they'll end up inside another fabric book? Ideas on a postcard please<br />
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This last piece was a pocket from an old shirt of mine which I embellished with lots of knots.Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-41098542761958723892014-09-28T05:08:00.000-07:002014-09-28T05:08:50.085-07:00I've not been idle!I know, I know, it's a while since I promised to update you on what I'd been doing - not sure where the time goes just recently. Anyhow ... better late than never they say don't they? So here I am, very late and this is really going to be a pretty long list of projects completed and in progress, and quite a few photographs.<br />
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A couple of months ago I went on a one day course in a tiny village called Copt Hewick, which is near Ripon in North Yorkshire, to play with beautiful fabrics, silk cocoons and silk carrier rods. This is the result. I really want to do more of this kind of play as I have a whole box full of hand dyed cocoons, but just at the moment my time is otherwise occupied I'm afraid.<br />
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This piece of 'blackwork' stitched in space dyed threads, rather than the traditional black, is destined to be a book cover for a whole series of blackwork samples which I've been working in odd moments.<br />
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This is the completed piece of goldwork samples which was begun at our Guild Summer School in a class with Llinos Spriggs. Traditional goldwork supplies (and some less traditional) and techniques but used in a very contemporary way.<br />
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This little peacock was a cross-stitch kit which I bought in a National Trust shop on my holiday to Norfolk this summer. It was supposed to be a needle-case but I already have several needle-cases so I made mine into a little notebook. It kept my evenings occupied whilst I was away from home.<br />
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Those of you who are regular readers of my blog will know about our Embroiderer's Guild's travelling books and this is my latest piece for these, inspired by the maple (acer) trees in my garden, which are resplendent in their autumn colours at the moment.<br />
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I'm also busy making pieces of lace for my solo exhibition next April. That sounds very grand I know but it really isn't as it's only at a local haberdashery shop but it is still a bit scary and I know that I need to have ideally around eighteen to twenty pieces of embroidery to put in there. I'm nowhere near there yet. The theme I've chosen is 'Nature's Jewels' so there are butterflies and seed heads,<br />
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storm clouds with silver linings,<br />
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and autumn leaves.<br />
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I've also been making a workbook which I intended to fill with whitework samples, except that I find it really hard to work purely white on white. So some of my samples have space-dyed threads.<br />
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I've also begun another book - why oh why can't I stick to one project
at a time?! - This one is going to be about the Lewis Chessmen, which
were discovered on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides off the West
coast of Scotland sometime prior to 1831. The 93 pieces are carved from
walrus ivory and thought to originate in Norway, and to date back to the
12th century. 82 of the pieces are on display in the British Museum and
I intend to visit them when I'm next in London.<br />
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So I've been working on Celtic knotwork patterns - <br />
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and here are my first two chessmen pieces - both sides of a knight.<br />
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I've just joined Karen Ruane's Simply Stitch 5 course and this morning was spent painting on paper for a workbook page. Lots of fun!<br />
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And finally (was that a cheer that I heard?!) I thought I'd show you my progress on my marathon cross stitch designed by Thea Gouverner of Mother of God, which is coming along nicely but very slowly.<br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-26003269051299886712014-07-05T05:34:00.000-07:002014-07-05T05:34:27.098-07:00Catch up on my workI hadn't realised that it had been quite so long since I was last here before my post last week! There is a lot to catch up on I guess, so I'm almost bound to miss something. I've been on a few workshops and there's a little progress on some of the big projects I'm working on. A great deal of time was spent getting pieces ready for the exhibition which I told you about last week, but as that is now out of the way (or at least out of my hands) it's time to take stock and look forward to the future.<br />
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Back in May I went to Stitching in the Dales - this is a stitching weekend run by a branch of the Embroiderers Guild and set in the beautiful village of Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales. The class I did (there were two alternatives) was entitled Textile Jewels and the tutor was <a href="http://chris-gray-textile-art.blogspot.co.uk/">Chris Gray</a>. Chris had brought along lots of her Indian textiles and we were invited to choose one on which to base our own piece of work.Having chosen a wall hanging embroidered with images of stylised birds, elephants and flowers, I decided to make a book.<br />
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Chris said that each of the images was intended to ward off evil spirits so I put this beach-found piece of metal on the front cover as I thought it looked and felt a little like something one would rub for good luck.<br />
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Inside there are lots of peacock images, stamped onto both paper and fabric and then embroidered and embellished. <br />
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Wrapped coffee stirrers and washers together with jewel coloured silk fabric make up this page. <br />
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And on the back cover I stitched a little pocket which contains an explanation of the book's inspiration written on watercolour paper dyed with walnut ink.<br />
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I'm doing a class on making sketchbook journals with <a href="http://www.annebrooke.co.uk/">Anne Brook</a> and decided that I needed a new, larger pencil case so made this piece of random bargello canvas work in lots of lovely zingy peacock and lime green colours.<br />
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At our May meeting of the Embroiderers Guild we were taught how to make miniature hats. They're embroidered with silk ribbon and perle thread - lots and lots of colonial knots.<br />
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Then we added ribbon, roses and feathers. Made me want to make lots more and a hat shop to display them in.<br />
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A small group of us are working on travelling books, which I think I've mentioned in an earlier post. Each of us has an A5 book and each month we make a piece of embroidery, fix it into the book and then pass that book onto the next person in the group. A bit like a round robin with stitches. When the books are full we'll each get our own book back which will then be filled with lots of beautiful embroidery stitched by all the members of the group. This is the piece I've been working on this month - entitled Windmills of Your Mind.<br />
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The final class I've done recently was to make book covers from sari ribbons. Most people used a sewing machine to embroider theirs but my machine is way too heavy to transport to class so mine was hand stitched (the one on the left in the photo). I made one later at home using machine embroidery. <br />
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Apart from my marathon Mother of God cross stitch piece I'm currently working on this small piece of needlelace entitled Stormy Weather as the doodle reminded me of a storm cloud. <br />
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I'm also working on a fabric book about the Lewis Chessmen. The first piece I've stitched (not quite finished) is this knight, quilted onto walnut ink dyed calico. I've been reading the Lewis Trilogy by Peter May and became fascinated by these 78 chess pieces carved from walrus ivory which were found on the Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in 1831. My husband and I once had a wonderfully idyllic holiday travelling the 130 miles up the islands from Barra to Lewis in our motorhome so I have no doubt that some of those memories will find themselves woven into this new venture in some way.<br />
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These are just a few of the chess pieces - the majority of which are now held in the British Museum in London while a few are in Edinburgh. Their faces are so expressive - especially this little rook ...<br />
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And finally ... inspired by my recent holiday in Norfolk and destined for the holiday journal I'm making as a result, is my response to the many gardens we walked around whilst we were there. Painted onto a scrap of the calico left over from the knight this is now in the process of being stitched. Watch this space for the completed piece.<br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-60163986441764771642014-06-22T05:15:00.000-07:002014-06-22T05:15:03.072-07:00Exhibits and a journey through NorfolkSorry for my long absence! I don't know how so many weeks have passed by and now I hardly know where to begin to catch up. I'll take photographs of my recent pieces of work in the next day or two and post again with an update. But in the meantime, let me show you what I've been up to in the past week.<br />
Our branch of the Embroiderers' Guild has an exhibition currently at the Bankfield Museum in Halifax (Yorkshire). For those of you who can get there it's on until the end of July. So last Saturday we went along to the preview and I have to say I was so proud of the ladies who have produced the exhibits.<br />
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Many of us worked on the huge tree of life - it's around 8 feet tall, which is the centrepiece of the exhibition. As well as couching the tree itself and the landscape along the bottom, we produced individual motifs as 'slips' (separate pieces of fabric) which were then stitched onto the tree.<br />
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These are just some of the exhibits inside one of the display cabinets - including my butterfly garden casket. The pieces of work are an interesting mix of traditional and modern embroidery and include stumpwork, whitework, blackwork, crewel embroidery, silk painting and many others.<br />
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And here are two of my pieces of lace. It felt so exciting to see them on display in a gallery!<br />
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Sunday I went away for a few days with my local National Trust group on a coach tour of North Norfolk. We saw lots of stately homes, masses of beautiful gardens, and some very special textiles, which I thought I'd share with you.<br />
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This bedspread was actually crocheted at the beginning of the 20th century but it is so beautiful. <br />
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This little beaded cushion was sitting on the bedside table.<br /><br />
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These two pieces of embroidery were worked by Mary Queen of Scots whilst she was in exile. They were on display at Oxburgh Hall, a lovely old manor house which actually has a moat!<br />
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This bedhanging was so relevant to our exhibition - a beautiful example of 17th century crewel embroidery.<br />
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In Sheringham we went to the lifeboat museum where there was an exhibition of fishermen's ganseys. Each area has its own design knitted into the fine wool sweaters.<br />
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The local branch of the Women's Institute had made a quilt to be raffled to raise funds to buy one of the restored lifeboats, but the men liked it so much that they asked the ladies to make them another to keep and put on show in the museum.<br />
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The final piece of embroidery that I have to show you is a bed hanging from Knole House in Kent and is currently being restored by the National Trust Conservation Studio, which is in Norfolk. It was fascinating to see how they conserve the beautiful old textiles in our many stately homes and palaces.<br />
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All in all a very good week!<br />
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And finally ... the wall of a dovecote we came across in one of the gardens, complete with white dove. Have a peaceful Sunday ... wherever you are.<br /><br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-7536235503715610142014-04-24T06:19:00.000-07:002014-04-24T06:19:22.823-07:00A collaged bookThis has been a bit of a diversion for me - not exactly stitching, though there is certainly stitch involved, and not miniatures, though it is small. Around three weeks ago I started an online class entitled The Thread That Weaves, with the very talented American artist Roxanne Evans Stout. You can check out the details of this, and all her other classes, <a href="http://rivergardenstudio.typepad.com/artimpressions/the-thread-that-weaves-an-online-workshop.html">here</a>.<br />
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I've never really worked with paper collage before so I was very quickly way outside my comfort zone, and at one point did actually wonder whether I would continue. However, I persevered, and I'm so pleased that I did.<br />
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This is the cover ... (it now has a stitched line of thread weaving across it, worked after this photograph was taken).<br />
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Inside, each of the three pages is hinged in some way and each one has a surprise beneath it. <br />
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This is under the first page, <br />
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Beneath the second page a seasonal poem by Robert Browning.<br />
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And under the third page a scrap of beautiful patterned silk fabric. <br />
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I made a tiny book (less than 3" square)<br />
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wit drawings,<br />
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scraps of old letters,<br />
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and snippets of poetry<br />
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all about what spring means to me ...<br />
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... new growth, butterflies<br />
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and birds.<br />
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I stitched the tiny book inside the main book. <br />
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And finally ... a few glimpses of my garden tulips after an early morning shower.<br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-53105461265016732522014-04-05T05:27:00.000-07:002014-04-05T05:27:54.158-07:00Red square in a pink worldYes, that's right, Red Square is completed!<br />
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I really enjoyed stitching this piece - inspired by the trip to Russia a couple of years ago. The backing is interlaced strips of red silk - every shade and pattern that I had - and then I just played with gold and red threads. The peacock blue is there as a nod towards the brilliant colours on the domes of St Basil's Cathedral.<br />
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Why is my world pink? These are just a few of the flowers that I received from my wonderful son and daughter for Mother's Day last Sunday.<br />
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And of course, my rocking chair where I sit and stitch in the afternoon in my studio is covered in my lovely Liberty fabric quilt.<br />
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I signed up for another on-line course this week - at <a href="http://www.rivergardenstudio.typepad.com/">River Garden Studio</a>. This one runs over four weeks and I'll be producing a mixed media book. Check out the photographs on the website - so inspiring! The course is entitled The Thread That Weaves, and so I got to thinking about the threads that weave through my textile art - the ones which already do, and the ones which I feel should become more prominent in order to more accurately reflect my personality and the things I love. Lace is a constant, as are the colours pink and purple, a little bit shabby/cottage chic, my love of flowers, small things, Scotland and Russia, faded grandeur and butterflies which speak of new birth/change/metamorphosis, a reflection of how this life I'm living feels. <br />
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What is the thread that weaves through your work and art?<br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-64187664867522219952014-04-02T09:23:00.001-07:002014-04-02T09:23:50.396-07:00Teddy bears and rocking chairsWe're struggling here in Yorkshire under a foggy sky which, according to experts, is a cloud of pollution blown in from Europe which is sitting underneath a cloud of dust from the Sahara desert. I really wish it had blown in some of the Sahara's warmth along with it but no ... it has felt really cold and damp and grey all day. It didn't stop me going into town for a warming cup of coffee though.<br />
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I finally got back to doing something miniature - it's been a while for one reason and another. So I just added these teddy bears in rocking chairs and sets of cushions to my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CherryCroftCrafts?ref=si_shop">Etsy shop</a>.<br />
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Aren't those teddies adorable?!<br />
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Some pictures of the auriculas blooming in my greenhouse<br />
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to remind me that it really is spring <br />
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<br /><br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-28302000208303010702014-03-26T06:59:00.002-07:002014-03-26T06:59:50.695-07:00A trip to LondonI'm just back from a trip to London visiting my son and daughter and wanted to share with you a few of the things that inspired me whilst I was there. It was a busy week but great fun. My daughter and I went to the Spring Knitting and Stitching Show at Olympia and of course I had to add to my stash.<br />
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Some wooden block stamps from Colouricious and some beautiful pure linen threads - two neutrals and a bright citrus yellow, which just reminded me of the daffodils blooming in my garden.<br />
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There were also hand dyed pure silk threads - these feel gorgeous and the sheen on them is incredible. Silk ribbons in shades of lilac and lavender, and a piece of lovely floral printed linen to make cushions for my bed.<br />
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My son and I visited the Beyond Dorado exhibition at the British Museum but no photographs of that of course - or of the exhibition of David Bailey's photographs at the National Portrait Gallery which we went to later in the day.<br />
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We took a walk through Nunhead Cemetery - a beautifully peaceful place with a little chapel in the centre, now damaged by fire, but still with some stunning architecture.<br />
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and another church in the centre of Covent Garden with memorials to lots of actors and other theatre celebrities of the past - more inspiring carvings here, which may one day find themselves translated into stitch.<br />
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Yesterday two friends and I visited the studio of a wonderful local textile artist Anne Brooke. Check out her work <a href="http://www.annebrooke.co.uk/">here</a> if you're not already aware of it. Lots of paper and stitched pieces based on seed pods and dandelion heads. We're joining her workbook workshop in May and really looking forward to that.<br />
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No actual stitching to show you this week I'm afraid but I do hope that these few images inspire you too.Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-81936199702402736992014-03-09T07:19:00.000-07:002014-03-09T07:19:29.161-07:00Finishing projectsNow that the napkins for my daughter are completed I've moved onto the next big project which needs to be finished - a rather spectacular cross stitch kit which my son bought for my birthday last year. I did start it last summer but then with one thing and another it got put to one side but now the light has improved it's come out of storage to be worked on again.<br />
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It is a design by Thea Gouverneur entitled 'Mother of God' and uses 54 different colours of thread!<br />
I saw a stitched sample in a shop in the Yorkshire Dales last year and instantly fell in love with its watermarked, weathered appearance - so reminiscent of some of the beautiful icons I saw in Russian churches.<br />
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This is how far I've got. Can you see where this bit fits? Right in the centre.The little piece of blue is the top of the dress. Worked on very fine aida fabric with one single strand of thread it is going to take a while.<br />
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I'm taking a trip to London shortly with lots of exciting things planned - a trip to the Spring Knitting and Stitching Show at Olympia, a visit to the British Museum to see the Dorado exhibition, and to the David Bailey photographic exhibition at the National. We're also going to the Country Living Spring Fair and finally a trip to the theatre. I shall be exhausted when I come back! but should have lots of things to show you on my return.<br />
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In the meantime I thought I'd share photographs of a favourite peaceful oasis in the centre of the city. This is St Dunstan's in the East - a church which was bombed in the second world war and, instead of rebuilding, it was turned into a public garden. Once inside it's hard to believe that you're in the centre of London as it is so peaceful.<br />
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... and above my desk, a spring banner<br />
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A couple of weeks ago I went to a workshop entitled 'Quilt as you Go', at a new shop which opened last autumn in Halifax (Yorkshire) called Fabbadashery. I didn't really know what to expect but I made this cute little needlebook.<br />
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The idea is that you choose fabrics which don't match, team them with embroidery thread which clashes and then embellish to your heart's content. I added a little pocket on the inside of the front cover to hold a needle threader. I shall make little fabric labels to tell me which needles are kept on each page.<br />
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I've also been stitching lace - I knew you wouldn't be surprised :-)<br />
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Isabella is almost finished. It's difficult to tell from the photo but she and Magda are around 35cm tall so they will make a striking pair mounted on grey fabric in black frames.<br />
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I've also been hem stitching napkins for my daughter - for the past few months but they're finally finished. There are six in all, two of each of three colours, a dusky pink, slate blue and a dusty purple. Hope she will be pleased with them!<br />
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A group of us (five in all) from my Embroiderers Guild branch have begun a travelling book. Each of us owns an A5 book and we've started our own books off this month by making a cover, a title page and our signature piece. Next Monday at the monthly meeting we will pass our book onto the next person in the group and they too will stitch a piece to fit into the book. The left hand page holds the inspiration for the piece - which might be anything ... a poem, a collage, a piece of embroidery ...<br />
My signature piece had to be needlelace didn't it?<br />
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my 1/4" scale stationmaster's cottage is at last beginning to take shape. Lots of furniture to make yet but the exterior is almost finished.<br /><br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-36727838751190624692014-02-20T05:15:00.001-08:002014-02-20T05:15:11.174-08:00Shabby shop finished<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sorry it's been a while since I was last here but sometimes life just gets in the way. However ... my little shabby shop box is now finished so there are lots of photos here.</div>
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I realised just now that you can't actually see inside the wardrobe which contains bales of fabric, cards wrapped with lace and some pretty boxes.<br />
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More fabric inside this low shelving unit, topped with baskets of wool, bags of patchwork fabrics and dress patterns.<br />
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There are cushions piled inside the little cupboard in the centre of the floor and plants, birdhouses and jugs.<br />
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Vases and more gift boxes on the little wall shelves. Patchwork fabric on the wire shelves.<br />
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In and amongst I've been taking an online workshop on developing sketchbooks. If you're even slightly interested in the topic I can heartily recommend Dionne Swift's workshops. We worked at our little books for two weeks and I now have so many circular ideas for stitching projects and also lots of new techniques for working in my sketchbooks.<br />
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Can you see the snowdrop? There are two buds just on the verge of opening - how I love to see the first snowdrops of the year. They really lifted my spirits. <br />
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The primroses are still flowering despite their frequent batterings from torrential rain and frosts.<br />
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The hellebores too, beside the garden pond.<br />
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And indoors an orchid flower which has been open since early December. It's fading a little now and has lost most of its greenish tinge, but it still makes me smile every day.<br />
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So, what else have I been doing? Well, there's a little progress on the shabby shop.<br />
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I put a couple of coats of paint on the mouldings. There's more to do on this yet to knock back the dark grey patches.<br />
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The window is painted and fitted, and I've coated the outside walls with PVA glue and crumpled tissue. This will be painted when the glue has dried and it will look like rough render.<br />
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On the stitching front ...<br />
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Mostly I've been stitching the outlines (cordonnets) for the workshop pieces. The workshop is now just eight days away and I still have a few more to go. In between I have stitched samples of the stitches I plan to teach the 30 people who've signed up. I know it's far too many but I didn't think to set a limit as I never dreamed that so many people would be interested. So - a valuable lesson learned and I'm getting as prepared as I can, remembering the old adage "Failure to prepare is preparing to fail".<br />
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I need a little respite from stitching outlines occasionally so in between times I've been stitching Magda's friend Isabella. <br />
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I made this little patchwork project bag a few weeks ago and forgot to show you. Just two log cabin blocks made from striped and checked fabrics in lovely faded red and linen colours.<br />
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And last but not least ... Red Square. There is a lot more work to do on this yet but it will be a real celebration of all the gorgeous red silk fabrics in my stash. Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-73115396836950822192014-01-26T05:52:00.002-08:002014-01-26T05:52:29.063-08:00Revamping a room boxFinally I've got around to doing something mini! I know I have so much stitching to do but this morning I awoke with the urge to create so ... As it's Sunday the craft shop in town won't be open (and anyhow a trip to town would take up all the crafting time available) I decided to re-purpose and revamp a couple of existing room boxes.<br />
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Some of you may remember my little shabby shop ...<br />
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Well, it had become a bit of a dumping ground for odd bits and pieces that didn't currently fit anywhere else and was looking a bit cluttered and tired - ripe for renovation.<br />
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And this sewing room was a better size for a shop - taller and very slightly wider.<br />
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Both boxes are just made of foam core board glued to picture frames so I emptied everything out of both and prised the sewing room box from its frame.<br />
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I decided to put a window in one side wall and cut an opening to fit a beautiful sash window which I had stashed away waiting for such an opportunity.<br />
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I then cut strips of mount board to form a shop front, pieced them all together and glued them to the front of the box.<br />
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That's as far as I've gone today. Tomorrow I shall paint the window frame (which will be interesting as the 'glass' is already fitted in the window) and the shop front. Watch this space soon for more progress.<br /><br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-69427926264618752832014-01-20T06:06:00.000-08:002014-01-20T06:06:14.354-08:00A very belated happy new year!<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where has the time gone?! It's almost a month since Christmas and I still feel to be playing catch up. I have </span>a couple of new pieces of stitching to show you and one which you've seen before but is now completed, and then a couple of new ventures to tell you about.<br />
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So first, the completed piece. I'd like you all to meet Magda...<br />
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She has no feet in this photograph but I can assure you that she is actually wearing a pair of beautiful scarlet shoes. This week when I go to town I shall buy frames for both her and her friend Isabella, who I'm working on at the moment. Isabella is dressed in 1920's style in much more delicate colours. I think they will make a striking pair for my lounge wall.<br />
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For months, in and amongst, when I felt in the mood, I've been crocheting hexagons, destined for a cosy blanket, a little like an updated version of the granny square blankets I remember from my childhood.<br />
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I finally decided that I had made enough to fashion a lap blanket, which will keep my legs warm on the cold nights to come.<br />
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I've also been working on a new book. This little one is destined to go to a friend, but I promise I'll show you the pages before I hand it over. It's all very delicate with silk ribbon embroidery and lots of lace stitched onto the pages.<br />
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Now for the new ventures ...<br />
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Early in February I'm running another needlelace workshop at my Embroiderers Guild branch. I admit to being slightly concerned about this one as 28 people have signed up! That feels like quite a large number to manage on my own, though at least a few of them have done a little of this type of embroidery before.<br />
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I've decided to keep things relatively simple so each person will stitch one small panel (6cm x 10cm) which they can then stitch onto a piece of fabric and stick it onto the front cover of an A6 notebook. The beginners will be able to choose between the two designs on the left of this photograph - the ones with three simple oblongs to fill. The other two designs are for those with a little experience. Everyone will get a sheet with all four designs on it though so they can practice more at home. They'll also get a sheet showing a route for laying the cordonnet for each design, and diagrams of how to do the stitches that I'll be teaching them.<br />
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We only have about 4.5 hours to work on these pieces so in order to save a little time I'm planning to stitch all the cordonnets for them so they can get straight on with learning the stitches. So - lots of preparatory work to do here in the next three weeks!<br />
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The other new track I'm following at the moment is getting to grips with using sketchbooks more effectively when I'm designing an embroidery. In the past, ideas have just been worked straight onto fabric and pieces have evolved as they go along. But last November two friends and myself decided that we would set ourselves a group challenge each month to work in our sketchbooks to design a piece of embroidery related to the title. We don't have to actually stitch the piece - just come up with the design. <br />
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November's topic was 'Palimpsest'<br />
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No ... I didn't know what it was either (apparently a parchment which has been scraped and re-used), so the idea was that we did a piece of work which showed how something had changed over time.<br />
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My inspiration was this statue which was attached to one of the buildings at my old school, and which had been removed 50 years on for health and safety reasons. Gladys, as she was affectionately called by the pupils, was sculpted by 'Peter' Peri who firmly believed that children would be democratised by surrounding them with things of beauty. The thing that upset me most when I visited the school last year, was that she had been ripped from the wall, leaving her feet still attached - a most unceremonious end I thought.<br />
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My finished design was to be worked in patchwork.<br />
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December's topic was, appropriately enough, Winter<br />
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I find that when I'm researching a piece of work I most often turn to my books of poetry and quotations for inspiration, then work them up into a mind map and take it from there.<br />
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My family were visiting over Christmas and we went for a walk in a local park where I took these photographs of beautiful black lace trees, like the ones mentioned in the poem.<br />
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Then I raided my magazine pile for more wintry photographs<br />
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and came up with the idea of a 3" fabric covered box.<br />
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January's topic is 'Joy' - so far I have a mind map and a colour 'map' of a sunset using squares cut from magazines.<br />
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Not entirely sure where this one will go yet but I have to say that I'm enjoying the journey.<br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-35407538350687856502013-12-15T06:55:00.000-08:002013-12-15T06:55:44.135-08:00Works in progressI don't have anything finished to show you this week so thought I'd better show you some of the pieces I'm currently working on. Yes, that's right, ... some! I know!<br />
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I don't know about you but I sometimes have periods when I'm feeling a bit down and unable to settle to anything and that's when I dip into my sketchbooks and pattern books and delve into the corners of my mind to see what might inspire me to pick up a needle and thread. It's not that I'm not already working on things of course - just that none of them are quite what I want to do at that time. And so I start on something new.<br />
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I'm not admitting to how many of these started and unfinished projects I currently have in my workbasket but here are a few of them.<br />
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First of all, this is going to be a new bag. The idea behind this project was to use up all the odds and ends of tapestry wool that I have left over from previous projects - hence the jumble of colours. The front is all finished<br />
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and the back will be mainly diagonal stripes. But the stripes are more boring to stitch than the hearts were - so slow progress is being made on this at the moment.<br />
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Now, I want you to meet Magda. Magda is a new project which has grown quickly. I spotted the pattern, which was intended for bobbin lace, at the Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate in November and fell instantly in love with her. I just knew that she'd be perfect in needlelace so here she is. Her hat, which has been worked separately, has a red silk ribbon around the crown. She'll soon be finished as I work on her a little each day.<br />
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This crocheted afghan has been in progress for a long time but I finally got around to stitching together some of the many hexagons I've crocheted - a twist on the traditional granny square blanket and it will be very cosy in the cold winter evenings ... if I can just get it finished.<br />
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In and amongst all this I'm working on some hem-stitched napkins for my daughter. I'd hoped to have them finished as a Christmas present but I obviously didn't start work on them soon enough and they're taking far longer to stitch than I'd anticipated, but at least she'll have a 'down payment' on the set of six that I've promised her.<br />
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And last but by no means least, here's a photo of Willow taking his afternoon nap on the silk comforter on my bed.Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413578176068076810noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607474457793999689.post-7947997688163829432013-12-10T05:07:00.001-08:002013-12-10T05:07:34.908-08:00Lace butterfliesA very quick little note today with a promise of more very soon, but I really wanted to show you these pieces. <br />
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I know that here in the UK this is not a very seasonal post but I recently finished the third of these butterflies, which will be mounted, framed and then will probably find their way into my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CherryCroftCrafts?ref=si_shop">Etsy shop</a> after Christmas.<br />
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This will be a new direction for my shop as these are not dolls house miniatures, as you might guess. They will, however, I hope, bring a little colour in these cold winter days.<br />
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