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Textiles at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024

I wrote last year (here) about the welcome inclusion of Textiles in the RA Summer exhibition. I visited the 2024 exhibition recently and was interested to see which artworks made of textiles made the cut this time. The portrait below by Blair Cahill caught my eye, as a two-person portrait by this artist was oneContinueContinue reading “Textiles at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024”

Slow stitching – Needlepoint

Some parts of quilt-making are focused on speed: quick methods of cutting or piecing or quilting, but how about doing some deliberately SLOW stitching? I’ve been enjoying working on the needlepoint piece pictured below. This came to me as a gift. It was brought, along with a number of other unfinished projects, to a groupContinueContinue reading “Slow stitching – Needlepoint”