Embroidered Tapestries
I have two tapestries from the past and three all done in 2020. -there are two reasons for this; we went to Norway in early 2020, one step ahead of Covid and surely on the last of any cruises to go to sea. We knew we were taking a small risk; but we had never lived through a pandemic before and it was just being hinted at in the news. I took enough embroidery thread and fabric to do 2 pieces if need be, realizing we could be stranded somewhere in quarantine, but it was all very remote and unreal then.
So here are the 3 since Covid. -the First, begun in midwinter in Norway, is a Tree of Life. It was probably finished in March. The second was April, May and June. We got a new puppy. I did a lot of needlework as I was 'tethering' her, (a house training method where the puppy is on a lead with you at all times). I just completed the third and it is early October. So they take over 3 months each.
I have two tapestries from the past and three all done in 2020. -there are two reasons for this; we went to Norway in early 2020, one step ahead of Covid and surely on the last of any cruises to go to sea. We knew we were taking a small risk; but we had never lived through a pandemic before and it was just being hinted at in the news. I took enough embroidery thread and fabric to do 2 pieces if need be, realizing we could be stranded somewhere in quarantine, but it was all very remote and unreal then.
So here are the 3 since Covid. -the First, begun in midwinter in Norway, is a Tree of Life. It was probably finished in March. The second was April, May and June. We got a new puppy. I did a lot of needlework as I was 'tethering' her, (a house training method where the puppy is on a lead with you at all times). I just completed the third and it is early October. So they take over 3 months each.
I made my song a coat
covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
the Coat
~ WB Yeats
Crann Bethadh
(the Tree of Life)
Dimensions: framed, 14x18"
(the Tree of Life)
Dimensions: framed, 14x18"
Innisfree I
Dimensions: framed 13x13"
Dimensions: framed 13x13"
Innisfree II
Dimensions: framed 13x13"
Dimensions: framed 13x13"