Amongst all the gloom, something wonderful. I've sold my textile artwork ' Wind me in the Sea' to a collector of Japanese textiles.
I was contacted out of the blue, they'd seen it when exhibited with 7th European Quilt Triennial , was it for sale ? After an exchange of lovely emails ( we found we had many shared interests ) I was very happy to sell it knowing it would be going to a good home where it could be displayed.
Its a very personal piece of indigo scraps stitched to lengths of Japanese kasuri from a kimono purchased in Tokyo when I travelled there with Susan Briscoe in 2006:
" A year of stitching in the form of a winding cloth: double-sided, semi-translucent in a continuous loop. Mainly sewn on train journeys, my stitching, like my travels, continues and repeats looping back to familiar and treasured places "
I was thrilled when it was juried into the 7th European Quilt Triennial, it was exhibited at:
Textilsammlung Max Berk Heidelberg (D) 19.09.2018 – 06.01.2019
Kreismuseum Zons Dormagen (D) 18.01.2019 – 24.03.2019
Textiles Centrum Haslach (A) 11.05.2019 – 30.10.2019
Textile Museum St. Gallen (CH) 14.02.2020 – 19.04.2020
It was supposed to have come to the UK as part of the Festival of Quilts 2020 where I was looking forward to not only helping to set up the exhibition and steward but also to see all the wonderful other quilts in the exhibition. Alas COVID intervened so it was returned to me and was still carefully packed up in its bag .
I unfolded it for one last look reminding myself of the journeys made stitching it before carefully packing it up and posting it . It has now arrived with its new owner who has let me know how much they appreciate it. I hope one day to visit .
