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Laura Ashley pocket number three
Laura Ashley pockets This is the finished set of Laura Ashley pockets. I made the final one, which is the one in the middle, because I bought a box frame for them and it was just too big for two. I...
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One of the benefits of being under the weather is…
Arthur Hughes that you get to spend some time doing things which seem just slightly frivolous when you are fit and well. So, as I have been trying to recover from what I am reliably informed is...
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Fantastic, thoughtful presents…
It’s better to give than to receive, apparently. Hmmm. People who know me well, know that I love giving presents and give them all the time as soon as I see them, and for no reason other than I think...
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Outside: Activating Cloth to Enhance the Way We Live
Last week I went to a wonderful one-day conference at the University of Huddersfield about, as the header says, activating cloth to enhance the way we live. I was put onto this by my Grate Frend...
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Lost in Lace, Gas Hall, Birmingham City Art Gallery
Yesterday was my birthday and so I took the day off and went to Birmingham to see an exhibition, Lost in Lace, which is unfortunately just about to come off (19 February 2012). The touring ten...
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From the archive: one of my favourite pieces
As I mentioned in my last post, I have found a cache of good photographs of some of my older work, and this is one of them. This is a piece called ‘Touch’ from a series I did on corporate excess and...
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Telling Tales – Bath Textile Artists’ New Show at Bristol Guild
It’s an exciting day today – the Bath Textile Artists’ exhibition at Bristol Guild ‘goes up’. I have to drop off my my work at 10.00 am. This is our first big exhibition for a while, and features...
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Embellished: new vintage by Karen Nicoll
Occasionally I recommend a book on this blog. There are so many new craft and design books that it is hard to know what’s worth money and what isn’t because initially they all look so tempting. I...
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My New Year Doll
Every New Year’s Day I make a doll (although last year I was pressed for time and finished making some birds that I had started earlier instead). This year I went back to making a doll. I thought I...
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What I did at the weekend
It is very nearly my birthday and the Medieval Historian has to do work of national importance on that day, clearly, so on Sunday I had my official birthday. We went to the recently...
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(D)rag Doll III
Some of you who read this blog regularly will know that I have been working on a project about a theory in gender studies that we are all, as women, wearing drag. This doesn’t just mean that we...
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Deconstructed stitching
This is the first in a series of small pieces which I intend to bind into an artists book. The book will be a bit experimental and will deal with Walter Benjamin’s very short piece of writing, ‘The...
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Latest Laura Ashley panel
I have started doing some work with Laura Ashley fabric again. This time there is no rush. It’s not for an exhibition or a conference paper, so I can take as long as I like. It started with one of...
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Falling in love again
There haven’t been many posts recently as I have been finishing things off and there hasn’t been much to report, but suddenly I have quite a lot to post about. This is a big project from my work on...
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