Return of the Bear

I’ve been so busy lately I’ve been neglecting this but I took a day away from the sewing hoop on Friday to visit the Fashion and Embroidery Show in Harrogate. Cleveland College of Art and Design had a stand there promoting their Textiles courses and it was a lovely surprize to see that they had chosen to use some of my work on the stand. Nice to see that red bear dress again after a few months and still quite like it! The stand seemed to be doing a roaring trade in collage packs, buttons etc. so it looks like 2009’s graduates will have a fortune to spend on their degree show!

I went with Heidi Turner and whilst loitering around the Bead Merchant choosing pots of delicious looking beads she introduced me to James Hunting whose work I’ve admired for a while. Such intricate and totally gorgeous stitching but also lovely expressive “drawing” of figures that seem infused with emotion.

Take a look at the rest of his work on his website, its fabulous.

It was also good to see some familiar faces from college; Rebecca Hawkin had a stand there,sponsored by Medeira, where she was showing examples of her delicate floral embroidery.

Well, I’m off to eat some more biscuits and do a bit more stitching before a well earned trip to the pub!

Bank Holiday Weekend

Hello again. I don’t know if anyone is still reading this but I’d just like to say to everyone at Cleveland College of Art, Good Luck getting everything finished this week! I have a huge list of things I want to do as soon as this project is handed in, its going to be so nice to be outside in the garden or actually doing some exercise instead of being glued to the kitchen chair sewing and drinking too much coffee.

Today I have been sorting out my sketch books which, as I speak, are still looking like a big pile of waste paper on the kitchen floor, with no covers, because I’m printing and embroidering some fabric to cover them. Today’s picture is a page from my visual studies book which includes collage, watercolour and a photograph I took of the woods nearby ( it looked like bears may live in there).I really liked the drawing of the foxy wolf thing but decided it might be a bit sinister to use in children’s wear ( I used to be terrified of the fox who lived at the bottom of my bed and bit my toes when I was little…I think now it might have been pins and needles!)
Well, the grass is growing and covered in blue Speedwell (?), I want to go outside but must return to the needle and thread.
More soon.