Sunday 11 January 2015

Machine mbroidered map for Lincoln A-Z exhibition

I currently have one of my pieces in an exhibition in the Collection in Lincoln if any of you would like to go and see it there’s a link to the exhibition details, the museum/gallery and(the museum itself is well worth a look, there’s a fantastic dinosaur skeleton they found under my old school)


The piece and corresponding poem are hopefully self explanatory, what people looking at the picture don’t know is how the piece ended up there. A month ago I started planning out how to make the piece and began searching around for old maps of Lincoln for reference in the embroidery. 


I think the lighting made it a little hard to photograph things so just incase you can't read all the poem it says
"Dear Tom, my dear Bear,
I want to stitch our story, sew our love on the machine,
all calico and cotton, framed for all to see.
Thin silver pin reminders
of where we've been and where we'll be."


 It was while looking around on the internet for old maps of Lincoln for reference I saw an advert calling out for a last minute piece for an exhibition by a local radio show. When I looked into it it was for A-Z Lincoln, a radio show where the presenters put a pin in a map of Lincoln and do the weekly show from that location (think more community project/ installation than cheesy radio roadshow, go check them out.)I messaged them telling them about the piece I was working on and that I’d love to surprise my partner and about his history in radio, luckily they liked the idea and said yes. 


Luckily Bear loved it and I hope he doesn’t mind me saying that he welled up when he saw it, he even seems ok with the fact that he can’t have his christmas present here in the house until the end of January. I felt like I botched proposing to my bear a bit last year (something he assures me wouldn’t have been very us without 2 engagement rings disappearing in the post, running across castle square in full steampunk getup to get a stand-in ring on the day and having to rip open the organza bag with my teeth to get the ring out while on one knee) so this was my big romantic gesture. 


All photos are by my good friend Spy Mistress General

Cake and hugs
Frocktopus
xxx


6 comments:

  1. Love it :) Such a sweet idea, are the pins all places you've lived?

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    1. Cheers lovely, glad you like it. The pins are some of my amethyst headed pins my mum made me and they've got printed calico hanging off them saying where we met, our first kiss, our first date, where I proposed and our home, if you look closely you can see some of the printing on the 4th picture. You are right about some of it though, well spotted, the first kiss one was at my old house.xxx

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  2. So romantic, such an awesome gift!!! x

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  3. That's so sweet and so very you! I'll have to see it in real life sometime
    😊

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  4. Thank you sweetie, I'll let you know when we have it back at the house, or it's at the collection until the 24th of january.xxx

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