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St Laura and the Nuits blanches
On Friday night I found myself completely unable to sleep: wide awake, thoughts racing through my head. I tried all those relaxation exercises, but after a while I gave in and got up. I went...
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My 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...
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Threads 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....
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What I did at the weekend – mainly for fabric lovers
The Medieval Historian was working on his big book yesterday and this left me at a bit of a loose end. I had the afternoon and the car to myself, and so I decided to go to Downend to have a look...
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What I did at the weekend
Well, I had a very busy and routine week last week. I taught the same two seminars over and over again to the point where I wasn’t entirely sure what I had said in any of them. I am not...
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Inspirational book
Sometimes on the blog I like to give a recommendation for an inspirational book and this one, Conflict and Costume: The Herero Tribe of Namibia is wonderful. I found the book featured in...
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On not having a Kaffe Fassett quilt
I haven’t posted much recently because I am mainly trying to finish things off and there isn’t much to show. I have taken two quilts to be professionally quilted which is a great way of getting...
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All our yesterdays
I have been clearing out the stuff we had to clear out from my mother-in-law’s attic in something of a hurry, and finally got round to a bag that I don’t think I have opened for at least fifteen...
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My quilting bona fides
Most of the time I make quite small pieces, or large pieces which are more about surface embellishment or ‘ideas’. But just occasionally I do a bit of traditional non-nonsense, uncomplicated...
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What I did at the weekend
As part of my day job, I chair a scholarly organisation of academics working with critical or alternative ideas about management and organising, SCOS, which stands for Standing Conference on...
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Walter 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....
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Walter 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...
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Kaffe Fassett at the London Fashion and Textiles Museum
Yesterday I went to the London Fashion and Textile Museum with my Grate Frend, Beatriz. We went to see the Kaffe Fassett exhibition. She had never heard of him, which I found a bit strange as all...
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Our love is here to stay
I have finally more or less finished this artist’s book on Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I am mightily relieved as the conference paper is a week on Sunday and I have run out of...
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Festival of Quilts, NEC
Retro, one of the magnificent quilts on display at this year’s Festival of Quilts This year I managed to get to the Festival of Quilts at the NEC in Birmingham. I went with my Grate Frends, Alison,...
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Mandy 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...
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What I did at the weekend
On Saturday I went to Builth Wells in Mid Wales to do a talk for the area day of the Quilters’ Guild Region 12. Their small but magnificent banner is shown in the picture above. Quilters, kindly...
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What I did at the weekend
I had a great day on Sunday after a not very thrilling week. I have been working on a new series of small pieces as part of my big Laura Ashley project. I am making some little Saint Lauras as part...
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Work in progress – Little Lauras 1
My new project involves making a series of small panels of little Saint Lauras. I started by making a biggish piece of machine-made crazy patchwork, using my faithful Bernina and the Singer my mother...
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This is not something I thought I’d ever live to see
This weekend’s Financial Times magazine has an article about Tracey Chevalier teaching the journalist to quilt. The article is about her ‘method’ writing – like method acting, but it does sort of...
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