Juggling Time - Applique

I first met Anne at an exhibition of work in the Usher Gallery Lincoln in 2007; in addition, to Juggling Time I also have some of her work following the Time Traveller series.

Since the conception of my business Harlequin Frames I have had a Harlequin as my logo and, as a textile specialist, when I came across Anne’s work I decided she was just the person to transfer my logo into textile artwork. Using recycled materials wherever possible her textile pictures are made entirely by hand using a combination of felts, fabrics, paints, stitches and applied objects.

We called the appliqué "Juggling Time" to follow the theme of the Time Travellers but also as everyone juggles time, in some way or other, throughout their lives.

 

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Sunflowers - Quilt

Designed and created in 2005 Helianthus I was inspired by the glorious fields of Provencial Sunflowers with their wonderful heads following the sun.

It has a machine quilted background on hand-dyed cotton. The sunflower heads are layers of sheer, synthetic fabrics on a background of synthetic felt, the design is machined on to the layered fabrics and cut back with a fine-tipped soldering iron. The work is finished with hand beading and each of the small sunflowers are hand embroidered. Heliathus I was originally made to enter the ‘Small Wonders’ category at the Chicago International Quilt Festival in the spring of 2006 this little quilt was then exhibited at the Houston International Quilt Festival in November 2006, subsequently it has been featured in Quilting Arts Magazine April/May 2007. 

A picture features on the Fine Art Trade Guild's publication "framing and presenting textile art"

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Cross Stitch

Cross stitch is a traditional type of embroidery formed by two stitches in the shape of a ‘X’ and it is these crosses that make up the desired picture or pattern. In this article Mal describes framing a cross stitch that had previously been very poorly framed.

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CXD Sampler

A combined project to conserve and frame an early nineteenth century sampler belonging to the Conservation Department of the University of Lincoln.  Framing to be completed by Harlequin Frames.  

The sampler comprises embroidery worked with silk threads on a background of fine linen with approximately 54 holes to the inch.  It is divided  into 11 different sections by single rows and columns of satin stitch  and has a border of cross stitch around the whole.  The top section repeats the alphabet twice, in upper and lower case and includes the numbers 1 - 11 in cross stitch.  There follows a three line verse and the numbers 1 to 12.  At the lower edge of the sampler there are two smaller blocks of writing giving details of the embroiderer - 

 

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