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Friday 30 November 2012

Birthday postcards

A recent birthday brought a flood of postcards on my set theme, which was "Anatomy".  This was interpreted in many inventive ways, shown below.  Apologies for the formatting, sometimes I hate computers.
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Saturday 24 November 2012

New blog........ " Embrellish"

I've been toying with the idea of moving this blog, or creating another blog to focus on one of the themes appearing here..  I've gone for the latter, not sure if this is a long term move or not, but if you like my embroidery, perhaps have a look at Embrellish.

Sunday 11 November 2012

A tourist in my own city

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One of the advantages of doing my course at Morley is that the participants come from parts of London  with which I am not familiar.  They therefore introduce me to areas that I have never visited in all the time I have lived here.  I am almost embarrassed to admit that one of these is Battersea Park.  Yesterday was the day for that visit, particularly as there is an exhibition in The Pumphouse Gallery that includes some work by Janice Gunner.

First, the park, images fixed now, courtesy of Marsedit ( please fix this photo thing Blogger).

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Next the exhibition " Beauty is the Only Test".  This is an interesting exploration of the links between maths and craft.   Some lovely pieces of stitching from Janice Gunner, on silk.  

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For the completely obsessional, there is a huge piece of work by Lesley Halliwell, made by drawing with Spirograph wheels. 

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The building itself is intriguing, over 4 floors ( no lift) with good views on to the park.  The exhibition is small, but free and worth a visit, on until 25th November.

As ever, some interesting textures

Red, white and blue?

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Fractals on windows

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Lichen and bark

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Home at sunset

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Friday 2 November 2012

A break in Devon

So many bloggers show photographs of their work placed in beautiful, natural surroundings, that I was inspired by our accommodation this week to photograph an ongoing project, " Morley Moons" outdoors.
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The weather was predictably wet, but where we were staying, had glorious views which enabled me to watch how the sky changed as I was stitching.
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Lots of muddy walks, practising map-reading
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and finding some great colour studies along the way.
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There was even a sunset, but the stars had disappeared by the time we had finished dinner with friends.
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