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Corinne Sleight

July 10, 2017 12:03 AM \

These incredible hand embroidery designs are the works UK-based artisan Corinne Sleight. She learned to stitch and knit as a child but has started embroidering professionally just a few years ago. Her unique style combines satin stitches, intricate patterns and a bold combination of colors. On Random Acts of Amy blog she says this about her work:

“The recurrent theme in my work would have to be colour, colour and more colour! Colour makes me happy, whether complementary or clashing. My embroidery style has developed significantly over the past couple of years, from stitching for stitching’s sake, to my current Satin Stitched pieces.  In this seemingly frantic paced world, I derive so much peace and calm from stitching and the precision which Satin Stitch requires focuses the mind!”

You can see more of her work on Instagram and some of her pieces are available in her Etsy shop, The Grumpy Crafter.

Images: Courtesy of Corinne Sleight.

Posted in: Embroidery, Etsy Find, Handcrafted

Michelle Robinson

July 7, 2017 12:03 AM \

Found ourselves a great weekend project courtesy of Michelle Robinson, who has posted the free pattern and instructions. Melbourne-based artisan Michelle Robinson is the creator/author of Poppy and Bliss, a blog that focuses on modern, vibrant and quirky crochet patterns. She has written a complete guide to modern Tunisian crochet stitches and techniques which is available here on Amazon. You can find additional equally awesome patterns and tutorials when you visit her blog.  She can also be found on Instagram and on Etsy.

Images: Courtesy of Michelle Robinson.

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Posted in: Crochet, Etsy Find, Handcrafted

Raimonds Staprans

July 5, 2017 12:03 AM \

Artist and playwright Raimonds Staprans was born in 1926 in Riga, Latvia. The painter is known for his depictions of fruit, chairs and architecture using flat planes of color to create form and light. In his own words he says this about his work:

“I am an abstract painter whose objects are really recognizable and sometimes quite realistic, but one has to really realize that they are all, everything, even if the object in the paintng looks quite realistic, they are really constructed from the ground up in absolutely abstract terms. But when you really look at it closely, even if I paint the glass, there is very little truth in it . It looks realistic, but when you compare it to the real thing, it really isn’t t here. It’s like the reflections on such, the shadows are quite different, so it’s an illusion. It’s an illusion. But the paintings themselves are quite abstract, and that’s why I really take a joy in it .”

You can learn more about the artist here on an interview with Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art.

Images: Courtesy of Raimonds Staprans and Google Images.

Posted in: Crochet
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