Narrative Self

For Janie

This little pillow is filled with roses. Well rose pot-pourri. And it smells wonderful. Just imagine popping it on the pillows on your bed and falling asleep breathing in the smells of a summer garden. Romantic nonsense? No! Everyone needs a little bit of romance don’t they? I know I’d like some. There’s been a serious lack of it around here for years (It’s true!)  But I digress. What do you think of the pillow?  I made it for my exceptionally patient friend Janie (it’s a belated Christmas present) and I think she likes it, which is important! As you can see it’s an asymmetrical patchwork design with hand and machine quilting, some applique and embroidery.  The small floral prints are from Liberty and the one with pink and yellow roses is from Tilda.

Are you wondering about the embroidered word ‘trees’?  Maybe you’re thinking “it’s a bit random that bit”? You were? I thought maybe you’d be thinking that!  Janie and I go for regular walks and I wanted to evoke something that might remind her of the beautiful places we’ve been, Trelissick in the autumn, Lanhyrdock in the summer…Miss P’s when it’s raining! (Slackers the pair of us.)  And there’s a certain shade of green that she loves, so I included plenty of it here.  And green, well it does remind me of trees…

I hope you like the photo mosaics I made too.  They’re a lovely way of showing related pictures together, but I think maybe I need to take some better photographs.  Or get a better camera, that might help. I wonder if the images are large enough too – if you click on them you’ll obviously see them full size, but I wonder if people actually bother to do that. Well people, do you?! You will let me know won’t you? I know I can be a miserable git but I really would like you to come back, so tell me what works best for you and I’ll give it a go.

Details of the front

Hidden heart

Until next time then.
Love Stephie x