Beautiful Coat

Today when I was in town searching for components of my dad's birthday present I popped into a charity shop and spotted this beautiful blue woollen coat for just £12. It's got shiny gold buttons down the front and it's so cosy! It's quite shapeless and 1980s and I love it!

Artefacts Exhibition

Here's a couple of images from the little private view of the Creative Arts 'Artefacts' exhibition.

My Grandmother's recipe book

I've been playing with the ideas of using my Grandmother Jessie's recipe book in my textiles work this year. It's one of the beautiful objects i've even owned, the thing is, I don't technically own it. It makes me sad that I've got to give it back to my uncle robert soon.

But while I've got it I'm going to make the most of it. I'm playing with translating the handwritten recipes into stitch.

I think at the moment they look pretty naive, I like this, but its a fine line between sensitively naive and just plain rubbish.

I'll have another go.

Here's the first one.

Knit Knit Knit.

Knitting for winter has begun. These cosies are for Christmas craft fairs and stalls, I've not even started my knitting for Christmas yet!!

A Love Hat.

Well i've been doing a lot of knitting recently for various craft fairs and christmas events but I've knitted a love gift for my Auntie Annie who's not having an amazing time of it at the moment.

I hope she loves it as much as i do!

It's lace knitted in a camel coloured mix wool. The bow is made from the beautiful old lace i found at a flea market in Paris in February 2009. I've been looking for something special to use it on. The bow is topped with a pretty little mother of pearl button.

Artefacts

This is the flyer for our Creative Arts exhibition ' Artefacts' which is showing the work we produced for the textiles festival in Stroud in the spring.

My spoons feature in the image on the flyer!!

Hopefully it will be lovely!

Stitch impressions

Here's a quick update of what I've been up to over the last couple of days.

As part of my ceramics project 'The Ward Project' I've been simplifying the faces of the family I never knew and learning the shapes and features of their faces by tracing them with stitch.

I've impressed these into clay and am quite pleased with the results.

I'm not sure where this is going yet, but it's early days, I'm just pleased I've finally got my hands back in the clay for the first time this year!

I'm feeling good about this project.