this is the gorgeous new zealand book where i found the term 'suffolk puff'. even though it is a history of craft in new zealand it happily crosses international boundaries of the western world.
and this is the page that alerted me to the new term which after your comments i realise, appears to be well known on this part of the planet. these puffs, if readable, are plastic! what do you think was the purpose of this piece of work? a curtain?
last night my girlfriend nadene and i went to see this man. what a fantastic talk he gave, mainly about his passion for colour and how he transferred it into his work.
nadene, who is a jewellery student arrived with a little black purse she had thrifted that very afternoon. but she had dressed it up with a suffolk puff that she had made then resined. it was very cool. yet another puff. she said she had always called them yo yos too but an older woman on her course told her of the SP term.
after the talk i bought this book to get signed (i am such a groupie) and when i was reading it later over a cup of sleepytime what do you think i found?!
yup, another reference, this time by a californian quilter called mary mashuta who called them SPs. i wonder where they will turn up next!!! i must say though, using the words prairie just uttered as she was reading the new post, they'll always be yo yos to me!
p.s. the new book is sitting on a kaffe fassett designed tapestry cushion i must have stitched 15 years ago. i must confess that it is waiting paitiently to fulfill its destiny.
p.p.s. and this really is the last. i must apologise for the somewhat crappy picture quality - tis a wet grey day here, anyone would think it was winter!
i worked for a company called coats crafts uk for 11 years and spent 2 years of that time dealing with ehrman, who make kaffe's designs into tapestry kits. his colour work is amazing.
and i used to call those things cornish puffs!, but can't remember where i got that term from. i was taught how to make them in the first weeks when i started my degree course, many years ago!.
Posted by: lucykate crafts | May 23, 2007 at 02:57 AM
Kaffe Fasset is in NZ?! Wow I had no idea. I wonder if he is coming near me. I saw him here in 1990 and he signed my Glorious Needlepoint book! It was a great lecture.
Posted by: Bee | May 23, 2007 at 05:56 AM
Ok... I used the SP word yesterday and amazed my friends. I like Cornish Puffs too... and may use that next time.
I'm so envious of the KF lecture you attended! And PS... I love our photos and think they are smashing! <--- That was typed with a kiwi accent BTW. :o)
Posted by: Happy Zombie | May 23, 2007 at 04:59 PM
LOL... YOUR photos not OUR photos!
Posted by: Happy Zombie | May 23, 2007 at 05:00 PM