and the world of mogwaii
Just returned from a mid field, blizzard buffeted hoof clinic. Hands now mottled with iodine yellow and blue from the cold, but at least Ruby’s painful foot has been trimmed and dosed and will revert to smelling earthy and normal again rather than like halitosis. I must tell you about my new toy, on loan…
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I have loads of pictures of personalised baby cushions that never see the light of … a screen. Annoyingly, but understandably I can’t go plastering pictures of them on social media until I’m sure the recipient has received it and by then the moment of marketing motivation has long gone. However, today I stumbled across…
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Hold onto your chair and take a deep breath, for the moment has finaly arrived for a Mogwaii shade without beast, bird or bloom. It feels almost meditative to attend to the washes of sky and the linear blades stitched around the base without beady eye or beak. I’ve always enjoyed zen simplicity, Wabi Sabi…
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I have been pondering more abstract lampshades, roughly landscape lampshades but more about light and texture than hills and glens. However, I keep being distracted by birds and strange animals. I believe it is time to out my latent cravings and get chaotic. This afternoon’s walk to clear my head of product listing madness also…
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…would be a great name for a story book! The merchandise has just been made and was inspired by my friend over the hill – Hazel, who suggested the combo in an FB comment. You often see birds settled on sheep backs. I suppose it’s a handy vantage point with the added bonus of warm…
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“A beautiful spirit has flown and is watching over you” These were the words I was asked to apply to a Pied Wagtail lampshade by a customer whose friend, I presume, has lost a loved one. It is interesting to apply a set of words to an image I’ve created, changing the tone and…
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The first batch of new designs more or less complete with the absence cows (hopefully to emerge today) and another sheep design which I had better shove on fabric if only to purge it from my mind. That involves gold leaf of all things, but still waiting for the arrival of “size” (i.e.e glue). A…
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” It’s fine, it’s fine Sarah, It’s just…why would anybody want a sheep on a lampshade?”. “Oh jst – GO AWAY Yorick! I want a sensible critique from somebody that…somebody ELSE! – but quietly to myself, why WOULD anybody want a sheep on a lampshade? Weirdly – I LOVE it. I love that it is…
Read MoreSometimes I turn a piece of work over and sigh. There is often something far more intriguing, fresh and frankly interesting about the unintentional back of a bit of embroidery. The back holds the design, but without the occasionally forced colour choices of the front or the cleanliness of the line.I also revel in the…
Read MoreThose of you from places far and wide and with no unquenchable thirst for Scottish sound are likely to be none the wiser when I mention ‘Celtic Connections’. This is understandable as in the great, worldly scheme of things it probably has as much significance as the great pea mushing festival of Andalucia or the…
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