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What I did on Saturday
I know that this is a blog about academic quilting, but it is also for people who love embellishment and textiles. So, yesterday while the Medieval historian was doing work of international...
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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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Inspiration
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...
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What 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...
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(D)rag Doll 2
This is the second in my short series of (D)rag Dolls. I am very proud indeed of those brackets. They are very trendy at the moment in social studies and now I have my own. I have used Text(lies)...
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My 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...
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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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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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Possible inspiration – Warsaw style
I am temporarily back from my travels, which included a trip to Warsaw to the conference of an organisation I chair (www.scos.org). Warsaw is a fascinating place which really brings home the reality...
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Shopping in Marylebone
This blog has been a bit sporadic recently because I have had a very busy summer either in transit or under the weather (the two might not be unconnected), and I have been working on a biggish...
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Inspiration from this season haute couture
I am not what you would call a fashionista, although, as a fabric lover, I do like clothes, but even I have been struck by the Fall (sorry) 2013 campaigns. The current Chanel campaign is really...
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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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What I did at the weekend
This is a piece for a specific project which I will blog about at the end, but I wanted to show you a small piece that I have made that I really like for once. I wanted to work with the citrus green...
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Quick inspiration
I have blogged before about the sumptuous new collection at Dolce and Gabbana. Selvedge magazine clearly feel the same. This is a nice article about using religious imagery without offending people...
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New Year Doll 2014
Every year I make a New Year Doll. I do this on New Year’s Day, and the only rule is that it has to be made on one single day. Last year I cheated a bit and assembled a doll from the arms and legs...
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Little Laura 5
I rather let rip on this one and added about as much embellishment as I could squeeze in. Sometimes more is more. I think it works because there is a lot of patterning and repetition in it,...
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Little Laura 6
This seemed like a nice Little Laura for Valentine’s Day (which happens to be my birthday), because of the little red enamel heart; I like this one because the stitchery at the bottom of her skirt is...
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Drawing armour at the Wallace Collection
The first subject on this week’s list of things to blog about was drawing armour at the Wallace Collection. This all started because I am interested in men’s workwear, and in particular the...
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Zentangles
I said that I would do a post on Zentangles, which I have been working on, inspired by my friend Beatriz and her one-a-day art process. A Zentangle is a drawing, done in ink with some graphite added...
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What I did on Sunday
Well, I should have been working at the day job, but for some reason I have the big Urge to Create yesterday and so I gave in. I finished the last of the little Laura panels just after lunch and I went...
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