Posted on November 4, 2020
Purple and violet are the key colours in this wall-hanging of a peacock, quilted by Madame and now taking pride of place in our daughter’s new home.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Purples & Violets
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, embroidery, Peacock, Purple, Quilting, Violet, wallhanging
Posted on February 20, 2019
Cee’s Fun ‘Foto’ Challenge for this week has the theme of ‘texture’.
This is a detail from an embroidered bag that I saw on display at the ‘Pour L’amour du Fil’ expo in Nantes a couple oof years ago.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Texture
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, elephants, embroidery, Quilting, Texture
Posted on May 2, 2017
I doubt if I could sew on a shirt button to save my life, and I have nothing but respect and admiration for those whose sewing skills leave me in the dust. Which, admittedly, is most people – and especially Madame.
I recently visited an exhibition of quilting and embroidery in Nantes, which included a couple of bags that have been elevated by texture way above their mundane practical purpose:
Tuesdays of Texture 2 May 2017
Category: Texture Tagged: embroidery, handbags, Nantes, Texture, TuesdaysofTexture