A mix of textile history & contemporary craft
MA Art Gallery & Museum Studies, University of Manchester, United Kingdom / BAH History & Art History, Queen’s University, Canada
I'm a Canadian crafter based in the UK. I've inherited a love for doing things on a small scale from my mum, who makes dollhouse miniatures. I hope you enjoy my experiments in embroidery :)
Shannon x
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Vogue Charity Fashion Show is an annual fundraiser at Queen’s University which raised $23,000 for Kingston General Hospital in 2007. As a second year student at Queen’s University, I teamed up with a friend to design and construct what turned out to be the winning collection. […]
Here’s a little card I made for a scrabble lover. It’s worked in cross stitch with one strand of DMC embroidery thread.
This is a motto sampler I’m working on for my friend Katherine. She’s a graphic designer so I wanted to have fun with the typography. I stole the lettering from a motivational poster I saw on pinterest. I liked the colours and how they changed when […]
I wanted to embroidery this little octopus as soon as I spotted him on a poster for the ‘Carefully Planned Festival.’ After stitching him, I was delighted to find out that the illustrator – Amy Tidmarsh – studied embroidery at Manchester Metropolitan University! I used machine […]
Here’s a (finally finished!) motto sampler I made for my friend Emma. The font is from the original book cover and it’s worked in split stitch with one strand of DMC embroidery thread.
Source: Sampler, 1730, Harris Museum & Art Gallery. This lovely font was copied directly from a 1730 sampler at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery. After charting the pattern, I modified some of the letters to square them off. Then I embroidered them onto […]
One of my first attempts at split stitch. It’s normally used to outline shapes – but it makes a good filler stitch too! – Shannon Quigley
Little and Often. A motto sampler in chain stitch to start us offSaveSave
