Looking through.......or rather sorting out stuff, I came across these gems by Becky Crow.

http://www.beckycrow.co.uk

Delightful!

My rocker - in beautiful organic Welsh wool.

And here as part of the stand at Wonderwool Wales Ltd, held in April. 

I feel privileged to have taken part in the Organic Welsh Wool Project, which is a collaboration between designer makers, Llynfi Textiles, and organic wool producer, Ystrad Farm.

It is part funded by Better Organic Business Links, Wales. It aims are to raise the profile and explore the potential of organic wool and to establish a broad community of interest that spans wool producers, designers, makers and the general public.It is also to showcase the potential for organic wool and the quality, innovation and commitment to sustainability of designer/makers in the UK.

Please check out - https://www.facebook.com/OrganicWoolWales and    http://llynfitextiles.blogspot.co.uk for more events and exhibitions and to learn more about the project.

And on.........

 A commission.... a footstool / table 5ft square in sage hemp.  

Degree Show over.


My final pieces. By upcycling textiles and the re-use of things, 
these seats represent three aspects of sustainability.


'Where do you sit?'


'Economy' Wine bar stool

Made of pin stripe suiting fabric it evokes a dripping oil pool,

the oil being a natural resource used as currency.

'Ecology' Rocker
Made of hemp scraps, shirts, cushions, and a door, 
this seat was designed in collaboration with Bob Underwood. 
It looks at the balance in nature.

'Social and Cultural' seat

Made of all sorts of recycled textiles and a garden post,

these seats look at the harmonizing of our cultural ways,

through hand stitched pattern and the Yinyang shape.

We have 3 weeks left to our degree show and it feels like madness!
 Here are some samples from one of my pieces.

Sally!

These were past onto me by Sarah, or Sally as she was known. She has since past on but was 102 when she died and somehow this photo says a lot about her. She was in service in the 1920's and had a love of all things domestic...monday was wash day, friday they had fish, sunday she baked bread buns in the morning then cooked the roast. She kept newspaper cuttings of the latest this or that and then past them onto my sister or me. I always felt like one of the little spoons, dwarfed in her presence but I think it was through her I developed my thrift and kept things with a view to re-use.

My drawing of Sally and her 'just get on with it' attitude wallpapering. The photograph is of her leaving the hospital after breaking her spine and being prostrate for a year! 

Through a love of re-inventing things and inspired by Slow Design philosophy, my work explores material sustainability and incorporates the re-use of things. Using a contemporary take on ancient Japanese techniques (boro, sashiko and sakiori) the colour, texture and narrative of my current pieces are inspired by the three aspects of sustainability: