blues part #07 (oh + oh)

Untitled (oh so many rainy days)
April 2014

#1 200cm x 100cm
#2 190cm x 90cm

Found discarded cotton fabric, 2nd hand cotton sheet + sewing thread mounted on wooden frames.

blues part #06 (group of blue urns)

Untitled (blue urns)
April 2014

details here, here and here

blues part #05 (hand-sewn patchwork urn)

Untitled (embroidery urn #2)
April 2014

Height 60cm, diameter 36cm


Second hand table cloths + sewing thread.

As in the previous urn, I was reminded of how fog and clouds are represented in old Japanese drawings and water colours, but this time I used the embroidery right side up.

blues part #04 (hand-sewn patchwork urn)

Untitled (embroidery urn #1)
April 2014

Height 51cm, diameter 34cm
Second hand table cloth + sewing thread.

I preferred the back side of the embroidery, it reminded me of how fog and clouds are represented in old Japanese drawings and water colours, so I reversed the fabric and used up almost every little scrap of embroidery-

blues part #03

Untitled
April 2014

90cm x 60cm

Second hand cotton table cloth + sewing thread mounted on wooden frame.
This is made from the left over fabric from this.

blues part #02 (hand-sewn patchwork urn)

Untitled (blue urn) 
April 2014

Height 83cm, diameter 54cm

Used cotton and linen table cloths, cardboard + sewing thread.

+ square quilt prototype +

Quilt #01 (March 2014)

150cm x 150cm

This is a machine sewn one-off quilt prototype inspired by an old Scandinavian embroidery pattern made from second hand cotton tablecloths and bed sheets.