The chains that bind......
Nothing is quite like the start of a major piece.
I have laid down the base for a new suffrage work, and as I try to use the textile techniques which would have been familiar to the women of that era, I have decided to incorporate knitting and finger crochet.
The base of the work is a 2 foot square canvas which I have covered with a patchwork of hand dyed blanket pieces in shades of blue/green/yellow.
On top of this I am creating a random surface of finger crochet and knitting in both wool and fabric.
This shows the section where I have used wool.
It is a work in progress and as I am in free fall with this one, who knows where it is going!
The chains that bind......
Nothing is quite like the start of a major piece.
I have laid down the base for a new suffrage work, and as I try to use the textile techniques which would have been familiar to the women of that era, I have decided to incorporate knitting and finger crochet.
The base of the work is a 2 foot square canvas which I have covered with a patchwork of hand dyed blanket pieces in shades of blue/green/yellow.
On top of this I am creating a random surface of finger crochet and knitting in both wool and fabric.
This shows the section where I have used wool.
It is a work in progress and as I am in free fall with this one, who knows where it is going!