Indoor swarm

Sea front swarm

King's Road Arches, Brighton sea front.

Swarming at the park gates

Somerhill Road, Hove

No swarming

Early morning swarm

St. Anne's Well Gardens, Hove

"Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by animals of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en masse." (Wikipedia)

Stitchtags are swarming this summer.
Many of us swarm towards the latest trends in fashion.
The life cycle of fashion starts with seasonal collections.  We only see butterflies in the warmer months.
Fashion can be fleeting, like a butterfly some clothes and trends only last for a few days, some might survive a few months.
The old clothes used in swarm are undergoing a metamorphosis; finding a new life as seasonal, swarming butterflies.

Stitchtagger returns

I will soon be starting a new "thread" of work titled "Swarm". 

Watch this space.  And that one and that one over there and that little corner...

face ache

Chequer Mead Arts Centre, East Grinstead

cheeky monkey

St Swithun's church, Church Lane, East Grinstead

telling ties

From left to right: listen at you talkin all lahdidah, loppy bugger, flibberty gibbet

Telling Tales exhibition (3-15 March), Greenstede Gallery, Chequer Mead Arts Centre, East Grinstead

shu' thi cayke oyl

Chequer Mead Arts Centre café, East Grinstead

collywobbles

Priory House, Brighton & Hove City Council, Bartholomew Square, Brighton

geeooar chunterin

Bill's Produce Store café, North Road, Brighton

scoppadiddle

Top of muesli mountain at the junction of Albion Hill and Queen's Park Road, outside the Walmer Castle pub, Hanover, Brighton

face ache

Clifton Road, Brighton

loppy bugger

Bus service no. 1 towards Mile Oak, Hove

love bombing 4

12.10 Southern trains service from Brighton to Seaford

love bombing 3

Jubilee Library (Poetry section, first floor), Brighton

love bombing 2

Sea front, Hove (near Brunswick Square)

love bombing 1

Pedestrian crossing, Kingsway (between Lansdowne Plc & Holland Rd), Hove

nah then cloth ears

The Farm Tavern, Farm Road, Hove

happy birthday

Bandstand, sea front, Brighton

I see said the blind man who couldn't see at all

East Grinstead train station

gaddin abaht

Chequer Mead Arts Centre, East Grinstead

stitchtagger will be involved in the "Telling Tales" group exhibition in the Greenstede Gallery at Chequer Mead from 4th to 15th March 2011

hello sunshine

East Court (outside the police station and court house), East Grinstead

allreyt up t neck

East Court (near the children's playground), East Grinstead

(the return of) you bobby dazzler

09.34 Southern Trains service from Brighton to Bedford

neither use nor ornament

 

St Ann's Well Gardens (café), Hove

you bobby dazzler

This current series of stitchtags is titled "Common Threads" and began with me thinking about inheritances and the things that get passed down through families; heirlooms, antiques, property, money.

When my grandparents died they had nothing like this to pass on. However, I was very close to them and knew a lot about them, their habits, their loves and hates, shared memories and their Yorkshire language and sayings. I wanted to create my own heirlooms from this shared history and pass it on.

 

St. Ann's Well Gardens (playground), Hove