I would often stay in my brother and sister in law’s house in Ra’anana. The downstairs bedroom needed a little bit of excitement added to it so I designed a load of wall art, and bought new bedding, as well as crocheting a rug. I also went a bit mad and brought some red Turkish coffee and tea cups! I used as many box frames from The Works – a stationary and craft shop in the Holloway Road, my daily journey to work from Highbury.
These are abstract postcards all in red or red hues. The postcard from UCL is part of the collection merely because of the colour!
I have always been (well recently actually) obsessed about prime numbers so made these 5 frames using all the lower ones under ten (2, 3, 5, 7) and my all time favourite 19. I had a lot of fun with my glue gun.
Doing this project led me to go mad collecting and buying in cheapy shops pretty much anything red which made a welcome break from purple.
I have had these and other Bedouin embroideries I bought on my gap year in Israel when I was 18. I have never really found a good use for them and they look very nice inserted into these Pakistani pashmina shawls. I love joining together countries who have no diplomatic relations – in this case Israel and Pakistan.
The floor in the room needed some softer furnishings so I used up some of my stash and crocheted a red rug with different colour red fleece inserts and some knotted in short tassels.
Whilst I was busy crocheting the floor covering with my stash, I was visiting Cappadocia with my son on his return from Irbil. I loved these bright red typical Turkish coffee cups, tea cups and incense burners.
I even bought the bedding so everything would match. You can’t call me a control freak – actually you can. What fun doing a NON purple project!
