contemporary embroidery
Blog URL http://www.karenruane.blogspot.com
Located Blackburn, Lancashire United Kingdom
Tags embroidery, contemporary, design, hand stitch, textiles, cloth, karen, ruane
Thoughts of an aspiring embroidery artist
Latest Blog Posts
- Time's up on Nov 18, 2009
Well that's it I can do no more. I put these buttons and brooches together at the weekend and saved the pictures so I could post tonight. I have made more things but unfortunately haven't been able to get any images so I will have to rectify that by...
- Sparkle cloth finished....and a little peek, on Nov 15, 2009
Strange day today, early blogging, expecting visitors, still serene and fragrant, (that being the strangest thing of all) an acceptance has occured again, Que Sera, what will be will be. Work in the morning for three days, off to London on thursday,...
- serene and fragrant...... on Nov 12, 2009
I remember once hearing a woman being described as serene and fragrant. It was a news bulletin and her (famous) husband had just been found guilty of perjury, the judge in his summing up was commenting on the fact that throughout she had remained the...
- desperate times call for desperate measures..... on Nov 8, 2009
Right, I am now officially in full scale panic mode. Sauntering along I was, must have been because I seem to have been stitching forever and believe me I have no evidence of it. So today I emptied more stuff out of the shop, so much stuff that soon...
- this week........ on Nov 5, 2009
First things first, where has it gone??? Tell me it isn't thursday, tell me I have once again slipped on to that other astral plane. No....Oh well thursday it is then. I meant to post last night but in all honesty I was exhausted and couldn't string...
- cushions, edges and (more) fragments on Oct 31, 2009
The cushions are finished. All day thursday sewing, stuffing, adding trims and hand stitching edges. I made little trims for the back folds too because I wanted them to have another little touch, to make them stand out. You know I feel as if I am stu...
- Immersed... on Oct 27, 2009
embroidery....constant....all day...all evening until the early hours....stop to eat, maybe......stop to sleep, sometimes.....having fun, most definitely, this is how I should be living all the time, day in day out, no breaking for ''work'', dream on...
