This sample is made of bark cloth. A particularly solid fabric that is very opaque and has no movement due to the lack of warp and weft. It does have its own character, but lacks something of a woven cloth.

These are images of my studio before we move

Quinary is a new group of textile graduates that have an exciting future ahead of them.  They already have an exhibition in October in Canada and in February in Germany.  The image below is from the artist Val Cross.  Good luck with your exhibitions.  They are setting up a blog to show us images of the exhibition in Canda.

 

 

I feel I have been away from my blog for sometime as I have spent a holiday in Ireland.  A move to a new studio is to take place in the next few weeks so I am forced to pack up my work and catalogue the items to date; photographing them as I goMy next space isn’t so big and I have to be really organised as to what I put up on the wall to work from.  It needs to be very well thought out before I begin.

Have not been very good at keeping this blog up. Images are of some tweed pieces I am making for the new Brunel Broderers exhibition in Stroud next year called suited.

I have been thinking: I don’t make finished pieces of work any more – only for Brunel Broderers exhibitions. This is because my Ph.D work consists of samples only as part of a collection. I do however enjoy now and again making larger pieces. These are images of a 1m x 1m piece I made for an exhibition last year.

I have decided to adopt the challenge of the writer Julia Cameron of ‘morning writings’ and during this mornings musings I noticed that the table I work on in one corner talked about all that my work relates to in one small glimpse.  The pile of books, the cones of thread, a cloth house carrier bag a stitched piece of ongoing work with the needle still working it.

This week I visited the quilt show in Birmingham at the N.E.C. and had an exciting time meeting up with friends and friends I hadn’t seen for a long time together with meeting new associates.   It struck me that this was as important as the quilts.  The heirloom quilts must be the most interesting to me although its is good to see that lots of people (mostly women) are ‘ stitching’.  The Welsh Quilts and their association with the Amish designs was a very interesting stand and Dorothy Osler was signing her new book on the subject.

My most exciting find was a very small piece of work from one of my favourite quilters, Dorothy Caldwell as part of a larger group show.

All in all a very good show and well worth going.