I continue to stitch on my Cromwell Narrative Cloth, and it continues to make slow but steady progress. Indeed, I have now almost completed what Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell describes as his second life. It’s ridiculously heavy and I have lost track of the overall length, but I plan to join the whole second life together later today - and will be able to get the tape measure out. While the Cloth develops, I am posting reflections about my earlier Cromwell Trilogy stitchery. This is the fourth in a series of posts about my first Wolf Hall Quilt, made between 2020 and 2021. It’s a textile piece that comes with a very strong sense of time and place, and the restrictive circumstances in which it was made had a significant impact on the finished work, which only became apparent after it was complete. This post follows on from a
So inspiring as always. I like your beaded cubes. I used to do a bit of beading for fun, along with collaging using vintage papers. Now I'm learning crewel, wondering if I can combine it with collaging, art for arts sake you know?
Stunning research and then translating into cloth. As a fellow quilter with copious notebooks and ideas still waiting to be worked I am full of admiration for this project.
I'm full of admiration for your index card usage and management. I tried to use them in one research project, and they turned out to be "Write Only" - I couldn't work out how to get the information back out of them usefully!
I do hope that one of these days I will get to see your work!
Always seems to me that your process and the record cards are as much of the artwork as the actual quilt; but it is the editing that makes the final cut in everything, isn't it?
So inspiring as always. I like your beaded cubes. I used to do a bit of beading for fun, along with collaging using vintage papers. Now I'm learning crewel, wondering if I can combine it with collaging, art for arts sake you know?
Stunning research and then translating into cloth. As a fellow quilter with copious notebooks and ideas still waiting to be worked I am full of admiration for this project.
This has made me feel cosy and inspired reading about your process and seeing your creativity 😊 And a world before Hilary Mantel's Cromwell, no way! 😆
I'm full of admiration for your index card usage and management. I tried to use them in one research project, and they turned out to be "Write Only" - I couldn't work out how to get the information back out of them usefully!
I do hope that one of these days I will get to see your work!
What an amazing project.
Always seems to me that your process and the record cards are as much of the artwork as the actual quilt; but it is the editing that makes the final cut in everything, isn't it?
Another captivating post, Lucie. Thank you!