Panic sampling
I am due to deliver a finished piece for exhibition on Saturday, and it isn't even started yet.
This is my first piece of panic sampling.
The theme is (of course) the suffragette, Emma Sproson, who was placed in solitary confinement in Stafford Gaol for her activities.
This confinement took place just after her "confinement" with child, and she was obliged to leave the baby with her husband as babies were not allowed in gaol in those days.
I imagine Emma yearning for her child and sitiching a cap for it for when she was released.
This small sample is worked on linen with crochet cotton and shows images of bars, crosses ( for kisses) and Italian knotted border stitch which appeared to me to look like nappy pins.
One of the pleasures of working a piece like this is that I get to research some unusual stitches.
Work in progress.
Panic sampling
I am due to deliver a finished piece for exhibition on Saturday, and it isn't even started yet.
This is my first piece of panic sampling.
The theme is (of course) the suffragette, Emma Sproson, who was placed in solitary confinement in Stafford Gaol for her activities.
This confinement took place just after her "confinement" with child, and she was obliged to leave the baby with her husband as babies were not allowed in gaol in those days.
I imagine Emma yearning for her child and sitiching a cap for it for when she was released.
This small sample is worked on linen with crochet cotton and shows images of bars, crosses ( for kisses) and Italian knotted border stitch which appeared to me to look like nappy pins.
One of the pleasures of working a piece like this is that I get to research some unusual stitches.
Work in progress.