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My latest (small) quilt
Most quilters I know have a travelling project, something they can take with them on holiday, or on a long journey, or for the really obsessive, to do in waiting rooms on visits to the doctors or...
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Embellished: new vintage by Karen Nicoll
Occasionally I recommend a book on this blog. There are so many new craft and design books that it is hard to know what’s worth money and what isn’t because initially they all look so tempting. I...
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What I did at the weekend
Well, I had a very busy and routine week last week. I taught the same two seminars over and over again to the point where I wasn’t entirely sure what I had said in any of them. I am not...
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Inspiration
There really is light at the end of the tunnel. I have finished lecturing and am more or less over the worst of the marking, so I can get back to my research and textile work. And therefore back...
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Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou at Nottingham Comtempoary
Whenever I come up to my mother’s house I try to get to Notttingham Contemporary, which is a gallery specialising in contemporary art – as you might expect from the name. I like it because it is...
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I’m still here
I am aware that I have not posted much recently. This is because of the hailstorm of deadlines for academic pieces of work that I have had to meet – some more successfully than others. I have been...
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What I did at the weekend
It is very nearly my birthday and the Medieval Historian has to do work of national importance on that day, clearly, so on Sunday I had my official birthday. We went to the recently...
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Dolls in waiting
I went to my sewing group, St Andrews Quilters, last night. We are between projects and while we are deciding what we are doing next, because we work on group projects, we were doing our own...
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Inspirational book
Sometimes on the blog I like to give a recommendation for an inspirational book and this one, Conflict and Costume: The Herero Tribe of Namibia is wonderful. I found the book featured in...
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(D)rag Doll 2
This is the second in my short series of (D)rag Dolls. I am very proud indeed of those brackets. They are very trendy at the moment in social studies and now I have my own. I have used Text(lies)...
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Shopping on Gloucester Road
Gloucester Road in Bristol is sometimes referred to as the last high street in England, and it is a bit of a weird mix of shops. I was walking along it last week when I saw these two fabulous...
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(D)rag Doll III
Some of you who read this blog regularly will know that I have been working on a project about a theory in gender studies that we are all, as women, wearing drag. This doesn’t just mean that we...
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Another Inspirational Book
If you read this blog regularly (and thank you if you do) you will know that I often recommend a really inspirational book that I have come across. Well, I have mixed feelings about this utterly...
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Yinka Shonibare MBE – Great exhibition
The Medieval Historian and I are up in Nottingham to see my mother. While we were in the vicinity we thought we would go and see the exhibition of Yinka Shonibare MBE’s work at the Yorkshire...
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On not having a Kaffe Fassett quilt
I haven’t posted much recently because I am mainly trying to finish things off and there isn’t much to show. I have taken two quilts to be professionally quilted which is a great way of getting...
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All our yesterdays
I have been clearing out the stuff we had to clear out from my mother-in-law’s attic in something of a hurry, and finally got round to a bag that I don’t think I have opened for at least fifteen...
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Deconstructed stitching
This is the first in a series of small pieces which I intend to bind into an artists book. The book will be a bit experimental and will deal with Walter Benjamin’s very short piece of writing, ‘The...
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What I did at the weekend
As part of my day job, I chair a scholarly organisation of academics working with critical or alternative ideas about management and organising, SCOS, which stands for Standing Conference on...
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My new series: Walter Benjamin: The Destructive Character
One of the big projects that I have been working on this summer is an artists’ book about a particularly short article by Walter Benjamin, one of my very favourite academic writers. The article is...
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Walter Benjamin Artists’ Book continued
I am continuing my slow progress on my artists’ book about Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I think that this might eventually be the cover. This is the bottom half of the panel....
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