A New SAL Finish!

This is beautiful! I love the colors. Very bright and beautifully stitched.

Lots of details at Brodibidouillages et Compagnie

Make Love Not Walls or The Needle is Mightier than the Sword

Designed on the beach, stitched in the sun, when you just can't stand to hear any more lies, any more hate.

Women have used their needles to stitch their thoughts before. I am continuing in a well traveled tradition. 

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My Embroidery at the Mathers

It is a quilters paradise here in central Indiana as shows and exhibits open in Indianapolis and Bloomington. 

One of the exhibits in Bloomington, IN is at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures.

In 2014 my quilting group, The Charm Club, got a behind the scenes look at some of the extraordinary artifacts in the Mathers collection. Our task was to pick a piece to inspire a quilt of our own design and making. 

I almost got the job done except I created an embroidery instead of a quilt.

In the center of the image above is a photo of a 'bracelet' found in one of the collection drawers. It is made to imitate a watch. I had hoped to use the watch face in the clock tower of a tunnel embroidery.

The scale proved to be a problem so I ended up with a simplified traditional face but the inspiration was always in the back of my mind.

But the image that truly took my breath away was pulling back a curtain to peek inside a closet of Asian robes. The colors of all the silks hanging together was amazing.

I hope the layers of color in my village scene hold some of that same intense color.

For the exhibit at the Mathers I presented the tunnel book in a frame.

It will have a permanent home in my embroidery casket one day.

The exhibit is now open and on Saturday March 5, from 1-2:30 pm,  myself and other members of the Charm Club will be at the museum to answer questions about our work.

Stop in to visit if you can!