Category Archives: collage
Exhibition at Truro Cathedral
Regular readers will know that I love textiles and creativity and today we saw the most amazing exhibition of beautiful textile panels in the Cathedral. Threads Through Creation is a wonderful depiction of the story of the creation as told in the Bible. If you live anywhere nearby or the exhibition comes near you, do go to see it. I want to go again when I have more time. Here is a gallery to give you a flavour of this glorious work.
Adam and Eve and the snake
Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge
All hand stitched!
The waters of the seas
Detail
Detail
Jacqui Parkinson, the artist, has spent ten years on this work. Read about it all here. 
Evening Sun and Sustainable Sewing
Evening sun
Using donated Santa cutouts and letters sewn on – Make A Mends imagination
St Piran’s Day and The StoryCoat
Yesterday, we were told – “Tomorrow ,Redruth’s young Town Crier, Max Morrison, will wear his new Storycoat for the first time, as part of the town celebrations for St Piran’s Day.
Ten artists have so far contributed to the coat – hand-dyeing the fabric with natural dyes fixed with tin and copper, handcrafting traditional woven buttons, embroidering story patches, collecting peoples’ images for the digitally printed lining and constructing the coat itself. More hands will work on it in the future, adding stories as the years go by.
You can see elements of the artwork here, but if you want to see Max and the new coat in all its glory, you’ll need to come to the Miner’s statue by the clock tower in Redruth for 10.00am.”
So, of course, today we went to see Max in the big reveal of the new Storycoat.
Max in the old Town Crier coat
Sloughing off the old coat
Town crier in action wearing his wonderful new coat. He’s a natural!
Showing off the beautiful lining
Detail on the back, our new ButterMarket embroidered by Sara Clasper, craftivist, of Make A Mends
Each patch illustrates something of Redruth’s history and Max will be telling the stories at the various events when it will be on show. They are all remarkably beautiful. My patch will soon be finished and will be on the coat for its next outing for Murdoch Day, June 15th.
Autumn Colours, Bottle Tops and Cyclamen
I love how the centre of the yellow daisy is the colour of the bronze Autumn leaf and all given a sheen by the Cornish mizzle.
I passed a whole patch of beautiful woodland cyclamen this afternoon.
On the wall outside the Primary School where my choir practises on Monday evenings was an octopus. As I approached I realised that it was made entirely of bottle tops.
Benches, Rock Steady and Angels
Both LiveWires were playing in the end of term Rock Steady concert this morning so after taking them to school and admiring the benches in the yard we went into the hall to hear five different rock bands! It was great fun but I can’t show you photos of the children in the band. J was on the keyboard and T on the drums!
I especially loved the display of angels with the faces of some of the children and wish I’d thought of that in my early career when I taught in Plover Primary School.
Granollers – Star, Chairs and Leaf
We really enjoy taking Oldest Livewire into Granollers on the bus, having her help with the shopping and treating her in a cafe! Today we noticed a beautiful star over the door of a primary school, some painted chairs and a golden leaf against the cerulean blue sky.
We’re In Charge!
We have the Live Wires to ourselves for a day and a half as their parents away celebrating their 10th Wedding Anniversary and what a day we have had – making, baking. playing hide and seek, helping to fix the fountain, Â a picnic in the garden, a late visit to the beach to play and stories read to us and by us. I think (and hope) we will all sleep well tonight.
Waving goodbye to the parents
Making a mask
Four hands mixing
Off to hide
The buns
Helping with the fountain
On Porthtowan Beach
Lullaby, Miss Peapod’s Cafe and Winnie the Pooh
1 Singing was lovely this morning, only one choir baby with us today and at 17 months she is a delight! We started with an African lullaby ‘Mwena La La’ which sounds so beautiful as a round.
Choir Baby E
2 After singing we go downstairs to Miss Peapod’s cafe for coffee and catching up. There is a charming new piece of artwork on the wall, a beautiful collage of a pea-pod made by a local artist, Penny MacBeth.
Peapod by Penny MacBeth
3 I don’t know why this particular Winnie the Poohism came into my head today, but as an English teacher, I had a small poster of it up in my classroom to encourage all wobbly spellers!
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
Shadows, A New Word and A Wall Hanging
1 Â The sun was so bright this morning that there were shadows on the blinds of the window bird feeder and the beautiful Cedrus Atlantica.
Shadows on the blind
Cedrus Atlantica
2 Â The sun went in, a bitter wind came in gusts so accubation was the choice. I curled up with one of my favourites, ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’, our next Book Group book. (Thanks to Shelagh for introducing me to this pleasing new word.)
3 Â Excellent session singing with The Inglehearts this evening. Every week I see this delightful wall hanging made by the pupils of Troon Primary School where we rehearse.
Wall hanging
