What I did at the weekend.
This weekend was my mother’s birthday so we went up to Nottingham for an overnight trip. While we were there mum suggested that she would like to go to an exhibition at the Castle – the Robin Hood...
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There is a tiny hiatus in the marking and so I thought that I would recommend an exhibition to those of you who live in the South-West of England, The Brunel Broderers‘ Curiously Enough. The...
View ArticleMy latest quilt
This is my new quilt. It is a cautionary tale really. I wanted to have a second large ‘statement’ piece in the York exhibition and so I went flat out to finish it, with predictable results. I...
View ArticleTelling 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...
View ArticleThreads of Identity V
Those of you who have been reading the blog for some time may remember that I produced a series of small pieces based on Laura Ashley fabric in a sort of memory box arrangement with other artifacts....
View ArticleEmbellished: 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...
View ArticleInspiration
There really is light at the end of the tunnel. I have finished lecturing and am more or less over the worst of the marking, so I can get back to my research and textile work. And therefore back...
View ArticleNothing Christmassy here
I am at my mother’s for Christmas and so brought some hand sewing with me to do so that we can talk as we stitch. This is a piece from the Destructive Character project I blogged about recently....
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleMy latest doll
I apologise for the large gap that there has been between posts. The first reason for this is that I have been travelling a lot for the day job, but the second reason, which is more interesting, is...
View ArticleDeconstructed 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...
View ArticleMy new series: Walter Benjamin: The Destructive Character
One of the big projects that I have been working on this summer is an artists’ book about a particularly short article by Walter Benjamin, one of my very favourite academic writers. The article is...
View ArticleWalter Benjamin Artists’ Book continued
I am continuing my slow progress on my artists’ book about Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I think that this might eventually be the cover. This is the bottom half of the panel....
View ArticleWalter Benjamin Artist’s Book – Progress
I blogged recently about the panel to make up the cover for the Walter Benjamin ‘Destructive Character’ artist’s book. I have now finished the first half of the panel, the part based on the crazy...
View ArticleFirst of my touch pieces
I am currently working on a series of touch pieces for my talk at SCOS at the weekend. I can’t cart the book itself all the way to Poland so I am making the equivalent of a touch table. This one...
View ArticleSecond of my touch pieces
When I first started the Walter Benjamin ‘Destructive Character’ piece, I thought I would do something around deconstructed stitching, which went through a bit of a vogue in the 1990s. Basically it’s...
View ArticleMandy Pattullo at the Festival of Quilts
I posted earlier in the week about the Festival of Quilts at the NEC. I had walked all the way round several times, I thought, but almost at the end of my visit I came to a white cube gallery that I...
View ArticleFalse economy
A cautionary tale. I am a big advocate of using cheap thread in the bobbin when doing machine embroidery. I think it makes me, at least, freer in my use of machine stitching because I am not...
View ArticleChanel A/W 2013
I very seldom go back to posts once I have finished them, but I have been so caught up in the start of term that I don’t think I said everything I wanted to say about the latest set of Chanel adverts....
View ArticleMy latest Laura Ashley project
It’s been quite a while since my last post. This is mainly due to the day job which is becoming increasingly demanding. I have also been working on a couple of things which are for a Bristol...
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