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Marrakech Maurice
This is the latest Laura Ashley husband doll, Marrakech Maurice. I wanted him to look a bit like Paul Getty in the famous photo by Patrick Lichfield of Talitha Getty on a rooftop in Marrakech: I’m...
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Simon and his Laura Ashley shirt
I promise to stop posting these dolls as I can see that they are getting very similar and likely to get more so, but this is Simon, who has a Laura Ashley shirt on. I drew in the collar and tie....
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Playing with moustaches
Today’s post might not be to everyone’s taste – it’s about sketchbooks. As part of my production line of Laura Ashley consort dolls, I have been sketching for faces quite a bit and playing around...
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Meet Keith
I said that I wasn’t going to post any more of the Laura Ashley consort dolls until they were all finished, but a small but firm petition on Saturday convinced me I was wrong. So here is the...
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Leadership through the medium of paper dolls
Well, I continue my doll making adventures, but this time with paper dolls which are much quicker to make. I have been making dolls for a workshop that we are running at Anglia Rushkin...
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Dolls in waiting
I went to my sewing group, St Andrews Quilters, last night. We are between projects and while we are deciding what we are doing next, because we work on group projects, we were doing our own...
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My latest doll
I apologise for the large gap that there has been between posts. The first reason for this is that I have been travelling a lot for the day job, but the second reason, which is more interesting, is...
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The Drag Doll Workbook
On my travels this week I have had a lot of positive feedback about the Drag Doll, so I thought you might like to see some of the pages from my workbook. I did a fair bit on separate pages and...
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Howard
Once again, I apologise for the long gaps between posts, but yesterday I finished not one but two dolls: lovely Howard pictured here, and (D)rag Doll II who will appear later in the week. There...
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(D)rag Doll 2
This is the second in my short series of (D)rag Dolls. I am very proud indeed of those brackets. They are very trendy at the moment in social studies and now I have my own. I have used Text(lies)...
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(D)rag Doll III
Some of you who read this blog regularly will know that I have been working on a project about a theory in gender studies that we are all, as women, wearing drag. This doesn’t just mean that we...
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On not having a Kaffe Fassett quilt
I haven’t posted much recently because I am mainly trying to finish things off and there isn’t much to show. I have taken two quilts to be professionally quilted which is a great way of getting...
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Thinking about dolls – research in progress
Two posts today as this one is very much from the academic quilter. I thought I should leaven the lump with some pictures on a second one. This post is about the work I have been doing on dolls. As...
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Deconstructed stitching
This is the first in a series of small pieces which I intend to bind into an artists book. The book will be a bit experimental and will deal with Walter Benjamin’s very short piece of writing, ‘The...
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My new series: Walter Benjamin: The Destructive Character
One of the big projects that I have been working on this summer is an artists’ book about a particularly short article by Walter Benjamin, one of my very favourite academic writers. The article is...
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Walter Benjamin Artists’ Book continued
I am continuing my slow progress on my artists’ book about Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I think that this might eventually be the cover. This is the bottom half of the panel....
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Walter Benjamin Artist’s Book – Progress
I blogged recently about the panel to make up the cover for the Walter Benjamin ‘Destructive Character’ artist’s book. I have now finished the first half of the panel, the part based on the crazy...
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Our love is here to stay
I have finally more or less finished this artist’s book on Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I am mightily relieved as the conference paper is a week on Sunday and I have run out of...
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First of my touch pieces
I am currently working on a series of touch pieces for my talk at SCOS at the weekend. I can’t cart the book itself all the way to Poland so I am making the equivalent of a touch table. This one...
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Final touch piece
I have been having a burst of energy finishing the touch pieces for my paper at the weekend on Walter Benjamin. I have been reading more about him and apparently he loved the baroque and the...
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