I have been blogging for a while now and so I don’t quite remember if I have blogged before about taking joy in our work. Joy in work has been a big thing for me for years. I have long been interested in William Morris. I am fascinated by his contradictions. He was a life-long […]
A couple of weeks ago the medieval historian and I went to the Djangoly Gallery at the Lakeside Gallery at the University of Nottingham and saw an exhibition of work called ‘Space Light Colour’ by Rana Begum. She makes large work playing with the three elements in the title: Space, light and colour. The work […]
My bear making exploits continue. This Belle. She has a guilty secret which is that her body is not made of old patchwork too tatty to do anything with other to be cut up. It is actually a printed, commercially produced quilt which I bought for a fiver in a charity shop. Now, I, in […]
A couple of weeks ago I had a small, experimental, try-out stand at a tone-y sort of textile fair to promote my workshops at Pomegranate Studio. I am still not sure if it generated any business, but it was a good source of feedback. I was advertising my Blinged-up Boro workshop and took along a […]
A couple of weeks ago I went to my mother’s quilting group’s exhibition in Gotham, Notts. This is Goat-ham not Gotham, home of Batman. It’s got its own Wise Men of Gotham lore in which the inhabitants acted like fools to stop a royal visit which would have meant opening up the road to the […]
This is one of those pieces that I am making but have no idea why. I am just really enjoying stitching together these tiny scraps leftover from the leftovers of leftovers. I think after this I might finally have to throw the scraps away. I think it has the spirit of boro: never wasting anything, […]
Making stuff is great, and making samples just try out a technique is also satisfying, but there is often the question of what to do with them afterwards. I was walking past a house in my neighbourhood which had a pile of oddments of bits of pine from some home improvement job. They were left […]
This is not the best picture in the world, but it gives an idea of my latest boro-inspired experiment. I used a convenient pomeranian dog to prop it up against for the photograph and I don’t think it really worked. This piece, which is about the size of an A4 piece of paper, is made […]
I haven’t posted much recently because I am so busy trying to get my business ideas off the ground or preparing to give talks to groups. I really don’t want this blog to turn into one of those thinly disguised sales pitches, so I am trying to avoid writing too much about upcoming events and […]
Well, it was a damp, warm, dizzly day here today as the Medieval Historian and I made our way to Nailsworth in Gloucestershire to have a look at the the Five Valley Quilters’ exhibition. We went through some lovely English countryside of the type you would want for one of those Victorian costume specials about […]
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