Daily Archives: March 3, 2009

I’m sort of itching to get into a bit of embroidery after this quilt.  I’ve been reading Sheila Paine’s book Embroidered Textiles : a world guide to traditional patterns and I’m feeling very inspired.  

Another book I read this week was Francis Bacon’s Studio by Margarita Cappock, which I got out of the library.  I didn’t know a lot about the artist, but I’m glad I read it as I found it really interesting to see how he manipulated photos to distort figures and how he used sources over and over again.

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