It should come as no surprise really as blue and cream has been pretty much a classic combo thoughout the history of ceramics!
Can you guess how I made the all those impressions of holes round the border? All highly technical - I used a Lego building base from when my kids were little. (Yes - we still have thousands of pounds worth of Lego stashed in the attic, along with Thomas the Tank Engines, and Lord knows what else!).
It's also not my usual traditional patchwork; it's all gone a bit contemporary. But it was nice to do something a bit different for a change.
Then back to the traditional quilt-blocks but staying with the blues. This one's called 'Right Hand of Friendship', though it's probably got several different names - they all seem to!
Anyway - I'm not feeling at all blue really cos the National Trust rang yesterday to confirm that my pieces had got the go-ahead. I am now invited to meet other local suppliers at Oxborough Hall next week - I can think of worse places to go for a meeting!
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Congratulations - both on the news and on the delightful pieces!
ReplyDeleteCongrats Cathy , very exciting! I love the blue right hand of friendship, it is divine!
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Congrats, I love seeing your quilted plates, and lego, what a good idea, next time I'm at the flea market I am going to look at toys in a whole different light, for unusual textures.
ReplyDeleteI love how it turned out - the colours are great, and i love the fact they are not flat, there is that variation of the brown like tortoisehell, and the light blue is speckled like vanilla seeds!
ReplyDeleteMust have missed a post re: the National Trust thing, but it sounds like good news and promising - congrats!
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Congratulations.I love your work and the brown/blue/cream combinations are lovely.
ReplyDeleteThats fabulous!!!
ReplyDeleteI knew they would take your work- right from when you first mentioned it- because your work is so fabulous!!!
What timing to read about using Lego with clay. This week we've had two artists in school making mosaics with the children through textures. Thought sticklebricks would also make a good pattern.
ReplyDeleteWell done! That is excellent news.
ReplyDeletegreat news on the National Trust, and I love that contempory piece. The lego is inspired!
ReplyDeleteWell done on the NT news! I love the blues and browns. My son still has all his Lego - but has just sold his Scalectrix!
ReplyDeletewonderful news about the NT.
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I love the look of the ceramics you have shown here. Keep the lego! It is a timeless toy, we also have quite a bit and it is still in use as Sophie is 9.
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Hi Cathy,
ReplyDeleteI am just stopping by your blog as you so kindly left a comment on mine, thought I'd 'check you out' haha. I love your work! I am deeply in love with ceramics, I don't even know why - I think I love when it looks like fabric frozen in time, and such amazing textures. My favorite piece of yours is the love heart with the little red berries on. How exciting about the NT...what is happening with that? :] x Nicola x
Loving the fact that you have used LEGO. We love it in our household.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I never comments on your blog but was waiting to hear if you had received confirmation from the national trust. Yeah for you!
ReplyDeleteOf course I KNEW they would say yes :) Who wouldn't like your jewels in the shop? Big congrats anyway!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWell done you! Although I never had any doubt about you getting the go ahead. I hope they extend your stuff as far as the West Midlands soon, I would be first in the queue. Don't tell me I still have years of lego in the house ahead.....
ReplyDeleteOoh congratulations re the NT! Broke my heart that my girls never loved Lego the way I did!!
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