Wednesday 1 December 2010

Harrogate Knit and Stitching Show!

My 4th time at the Knit and Stitch in Harrogate! This year was especially good for scrap fabrics and the usual craft materials!  As exciting and festive as ever! See pictures: !









Jane McKeating - Boy on a bike




Lynn Setterington - Passing down tree of life
This appliquéd hanging was not your typical depiction of your family tree! It is layered with personal quotes, memories and childlike dialogue, surrounded by amusing genealogical graphs.







Joanna Teague's stitched textiles continued to appeal to my love of narrative and tactility.

She deals with themes of the family, of values, advice and personal/societal phrases. In her work, she uses poetry and dialogue stitched in red against white/cream cotton backgrounds. The old cotton adds to the nature of past & memory and gives each piece a delicate essence. The red thread was said to be used to relate back to old washing labels on clothes.


Her embroidered baby dress is a great commentary on all the advice that new mothers are given both when the baby is born and when they are pregnant. She recites many of the 'tips' people have given her (good or bad) in stitch resulting in a delicate yet comic what you could call, a tapestry.


Annie Harrison's installation of bedlinen sheets was interesting and coincidentally works with the themes of history and memory like myself. "Bed sheets speak of layers of memory, of archaeological strata containing the artefacts of people and place"

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Isabel Dibden Wright



I love the colours and textures in this hanging by Isabel Dibden Wright. I would like to experiment with stitching and layering fabrics in this way!

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