-
Recent Posts
Archives
- October 2019
- March 2019
- January 2018
- July 2017
- September 2016
- March 2016
- September 2015
- April 2015
- November 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- July 2013
- June 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- November 2012
- September 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
Categories
Meta
Tag Archives: inspiration
Unpicking Time
This modest bag was made by grandmother for me about 40 years ago. My sisters and I were each given one. Based on the wrangles with odd sock piles and unfolded T-shirts that inhabit my adult life, I can imagine the … Continue reading
Posted in inspiration, the process
Tagged 1970s, childhood, coat-hanger, communing, connected, embroidery, fabric, family, familytree, grandmother, housewife, inspiration, laundry, life, marie kondo, meditation, memories, mother, nostalgia, organisation, past, seamripper, sewing, sockbag, sorting, threads, time, unpicking
Leave a comment
a beautiful misunderstanding
I was distracted during the telephone conversation with the journalist from the local newspaper: my son’s schoolbags, shoes and coat littered the hall, the tatties cakes were in the toaster, Sooty and Sweep were competing with Radio 4 and the … Continue reading
Posted in 'connected' exhibition, printmaking
Tagged artist, Bury Times, connected, creativity, embroidering, exhibition, family, gingerbreadmen, grandmothers, hardship, housewife, inspiration, sewing
1 Comment
cottamarts 