The Textile Cuisine

Yes, I do love custom orders. I take a lot of them and decided to put some light on this part of my artistic activity. As in the popular saying - my best teachers are my customers. First of all, custom order opens a canal of communication between me and the person who really likes my works, who "gets it". Being able to talk to someone like this is a heaven for me. And it doesn't matter if it is about the small, practical item or actual artwork for the wall. In both cases I know I met someone who understands my artistic language. The person who ordered the teapot coasters pictured above came back later with a real challenge - she wanted something for four different persons to commemorate a spiritual event they all took part in. The theme was "tree" (with many deep meanings) and the recipients of the gifts played different roles in this event. So I was asked to make one wall hanging, one rounded table topper and two mug rugs. Here is what I came up with: Tak

So I've got this old quilt of mine depicting falling Autumn leaves hanging in my bedroom. Personally I love it. I've used many colorful scraps I had at the time to make a background for delicate grey autumn leaves. I wanted the leaves to be almost invisible and I succeeded - which isn't all that good considering the amount of work put into cutting and appliqueing them. Mam taką starszą pracę ze spadającymi jesiennymi liśćmi wiszącą w sypialni. Bardzo ją kocham. Wykorzystałam w niej  mnóstwo kolorowych skrawków ulubionych tkanin jako tło dla delikatnych szarych liści. Chciałam, żeby te liście były prawie niewidoczne i udało mi się - tyle, że to trochę bez sensu, biorąc pod uwagę ilość pracy włożoną w ich wycięcie i naszycie. I even decided to add a fine black contour line but as for now I did it just with one leaf in the lower right corner. Mundane task. The shape of leaves is a real challenge for my patience but I still find it beautiful because of their lacy factor.

It depends. While beading red raspberries I wanted something different to relax my eyes. Little did I know how much different. I had a deep need to stitch something dark and shiny. That's how this "Lake in the forest" came to life. To zależy. Podczas szycia malin potrzebowałam jakiejś odmiany dla zrelaksowania oczu. Nie przypuszczałam, że aż takiej odmiany. Miałam głęboką potrzebę szycia czegoś ciemnego i z błyskiem. Tak powstało "Jezioro w lesie" And yes, my eyes were resting during the process. Why? Because it was almost impossible to see anything so I was sewing "from memory". I naprawdę moje oczy przy nim odpoczywały. Dlaczego? Bo trudno tu było zobaczyć cokolwiek, więc szyłam "z pamięci".  I used this rich silk jacquard for the background, dupioni silk for the lake and simple black shapes of trees. So when it came to quilting I was just going through imaginary branches. Tłem jest cudowny jedwabny żakard, jezioro to jedwab typu