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Oct 12, 2014

The future is bright the future is textile art

I cannot believe I only have 12 hours left of the magic that is the knitting and stitching show. If you see one thing you must see Renate Keeping ‘s work. I have never been so moved by a piece a of work, it is totally unbelievably beautiful, touching and moving. Why had I never heard of this wonderful lady and her husband, Charles , although I know his illustrations from childhood. My ignorance embarrasses me. Something is wrong somewhere in the world when more people don’t get the opportunity to experience this wonderful art work. In fact textile art needs to be out there so much more.

Je t’aime Anthea Godfrey, Diane Bates, Diana Springall.

Gorgeous gold work...Godfrey is god! — Gorgeous gold work…Godfrey is god!

Me t'adore Diane, AKA the Mistress of Stitch — Je t’adore Diane, AKA the Mistress of Stitch

You are missing out if you don’t know about these incredible women. There are a whole lot more.

Goodness this is tiring but all rather lovely!

My mission, which I have chosen to accept is to raise the profile of textile art…two years oops sorry I mean 13 years left to win the Turner Prize! X

ps this should have been posted this morning but being rather technically challenged I didn’t do it! So it’s now. Later…Sarah x

Oct 10, 2014

been far too busy to blog

Hello my amazing followers…for those of you new to this incredibly popular site that’s a joke by the way…. I appreciate this is only read by myself and Sarah…but if you have dared to take a peek after picking up my card today or chatting to me ….if I let you get a word in edgeways….hello.and thank you for stopping to look at my work. I am having am absolutely amazing time at the knitting and stitching show. It’s fantastic , the people are amazing the work is amazing and next week when my head has stopped spinning and I’m not quite so pooped I will tell you all about the gems that are here and all the fantastic things that have been happening to me….if you can still come before it closes on sunday then please come. Meantime her’s a little bit of stuff to keep you going….

Selfie in front of the wonderful Caroline Bell's work — Selfie in front of the wonderful Caroline Bell’s work

And for all those girls who bought my badges have you googled Picasso? Do you know who he is? And have you googled Mademoiselles d’Avignon? Laters x

ps thank you Embroiderers Guild for asking me to come and exhibit my work, words cannot express how thankful I am.

Pps and hey and Grayson if your reading this the box is yours!

pps Mr x stitch have you started blogging about me yet? Textile art is the future.

ppps goodnight Sarah you should be asleep.

Oct 7, 2014

My bags are packed I’m ready to go….

anyone who recognises this as a song lyric is way over 37 and a big bit. I have been packed since Sunday (honest) but left the last bit of bubble wrap till this morning, at 6am, well I was up anyway. This was what my packing looks like in my head….

This photograph is probably more representative of what car will look like leaving Hampshire this morning…10 boxes and counting.

and a rather large plinth. Than goodness for beautiful mad Canadians who are happy to attempt to cram it into the back of spanking new audis. And act as a taxi service. Most important stitching last night? Check out those rather expertly attached badges..=I

I do it all in the name of art.

Oct 5, 2014

I have a lorra lorra boxes

well have started to box up ….goodness me didn’t think it would take this long….

Doesn’t that plinth look good…think I might have to keep it in my garden! Would be preferable to lugging all the flipping boxes I have amassed in my hall, back room, kitchen, car boot, every available surface… Am looking at market stall holders in a totally new light…..would everyone just like to come to my house instead? I am a great host and have perfected my coffee and walnut cake thanks to Mathew Harris..see blog no 6 I think! That seems like a very long time no time ago!

N.B. when I was packing up my books for display I came across the old note book that I started when I moved to Petersfield. In it was the telephone number of a lady called Chris Harris who was pivotal in me starting all this stitch malarky,and..she didn’t remember me! We had a lovely chat though! I really do owe her everything as it was her pep talk on the embroiders guild that set me off in the road I am on today! Before I met Chris I had never heard of perle or the embroiderers guild or city and guilds.

Am ready to JUMP again…………

Oct 4, 2014

the fourth plinth…

oui, il est arrivé à Petersfield cet après-midi! (via Waterlooville, thanks Lynn!) et ce qui va orner cette quatrième socle me direz-vous mes fans avides ? un spectacle Antony Gormley?

nope, le gateau de battenburg?

Nope. Un arbre?

Nope! Alison Lappa?

..noooooo, un enfant sur un cheval à bascule ou un coq bleu ?

Mais non! Je avez une lap top on my quatrieme socle cette ci bon …n,est pas?

This is especially for you Sarah, Does anyone else read my sh**?!? ( love all the fourth plinth stuff, havent see the battenburg or the rocking horse!)

Perhaps I am a little stressed. Yes it’s late. But I am ready. The fourth plinth is in the boot of my car and I’m watching genesis on the telly. Just going to worry about the colour of my calico now.

Oct 2, 2014

i am officially techie

Not tetchy anymore!
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Oct 1, 2014Oct 1, 2014

One week and counting

Still can’t get my WordPress site to work properly. But I am learning to work round things and reading loads of messages from bloggers with the same issue. Do not update to iOS 8! It stuffs your word press site up! Not great when your trying to blog about an up and coming show.

Finally managed to get technology sorted for my exhibition, got hold of an av thingumy to link to my monitor but after talking to Bob the technician at Chichester I have decided to use my trusty laptop to display ‘Do It Again Please’ to the world. Have downloaded on to the hard drive and am ready to go. Decided to add a few more ladies to textile books and am good to go for the Knit and Stitch. You can really see why I am a textile artist can’t you. But everyone needs to start some where.

Great talk at uni today from Ruth Jarman who was very tech savvy. With her partner Jo Gerhardt they exhibit as Semiconductor. Check out website. Fascinating stuff! I really loved. Great to know the story behind the art. They use computers as a medium so I am sure they would have found my forays with laptops and av thingumyies amusing . As a departure from what they normally do they are just finishing a commission in conjunction with Jerwood and are installing a huge wooden sculpture in Alice Holt park later this month. It looks great. I will be going for a butchers!

Talking of which, went to Andrew Sabin’s open studios on Sunday. Love ‘of sea and sun’ and all the sculptures which were textiley and touchable and moved. Fantastic space though we didn’t stay long as it was quite a family affair. Must be one of the only arty places I could take Nathan and let him push the art work.Memories of an an incident in the the Ashmoleum still bring me out in a cold sweat!

Right this is the downside to WordPress as it is with iOS 8 glitches, unless you insert the pictures as you go, in the app and not via safari cos it doesn’t work anymore, they all end up in a bunch at the end. Sorry. Must go, just had pop up from Apple saying I need to install the next update of iOS 8 which should include bug fixes. Just need to work out how to do it though a pc on iTunes. I could be a while…but I do sound quite techy don’t I?