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This is the main tumblog of Silvie Kilgallon. I'm a conceptual artist and my work is largely influenced by my academic interests in classics, ancient history, translation, and philosophy of language. This blog details conceptual, casual and personal projects on which I am currently working. To see the Stitched Iliad project, please check out the Stitched Iliad blog below.

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A--R. Half Way Now. An Detail Of M And N. M Might Look Pretty Much Like G Above It, But I Promise You

A--R. Half Way Now. An Detail Of M And N. M Might Look Pretty Much Like G Above It, But I Promise You
A--R. Half Way Now. An Detail Of M And N. M Might Look Pretty Much Like G Above It, But I Promise You

A--R. Half way now. An detail of M and N. M might look pretty much like G above it, but I promise you they're different stitches. G is just a plain vertical cross, M is knot stitch/ four-legged knot stitch, where you wrap the thread around the cross before completing the final leg. The big stitch is captive rice stitch, to complement the triple rice stitch of the G above. N is Turkman stitch, and a spiral of my own design in the middle. Let's call it four-legged spiral stitch!

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10 years ago

Me, on the radio. Fun times!

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I was in BBC Broadcasting house Bristol this morning, doing a short interview on the Iliad project for BBC Radio Bristol. I’m in the last ten minutes or so if anyone would like to listen. 


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12 years ago
This One's P. Mountmellick Stitch. Te Big Stitches Are Rhodes Stitch. In Execution, Mountmellick Stitch
This One's P. Mountmellick Stitch. Te Big Stitches Are Rhodes Stitch. In Execution, Mountmellick Stitch

This one's P. mountmellick stitch. Te big stitches are Rhodes stitch. In execution, mountmellick stitch is sort of half way between Dutch knot or Sorbello stitch, and an inverted feather stitch (guess which stitch is next?). And a shot of what the whole thing currently looks like, too.


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11 years ago
Two Roads Diverged In A Yellow Wood... I Was Having Doubts About The Colour Palette Last Night, But I

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood... I was having doubts about the colour palette last night, but I feel a lot better about it this morning. I'd say this is just over a quarter done.


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11 years ago
Bristol-based Art-academia-community Group MakingLearning Are Producing A Series Of Patchwork Poems -

Bristol-based art-academia-community group MakingLearning are producing a series of patchwork poems - each patch contains a word, and is made by a different person. I just did the piecing and the quilting. MakingLearning may be Bristol (uk) based, but for the patchwork poem project we've received patches from lots of different places - not just other places in the UK, but also from other countries in Europe, and other continents. So if you think this is something you'd like to participate in, please don't think distance is a barrier! Get in touch, and we'll post a patch out to you. MakingLearning has a Facebook page, which you should totally check out: https://m.facebook.com/makinglearning


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11 years ago
Geometry Is A Beautiful Thing.

Geometry is a beautiful thing.

This was my mini-relaxation project last night, and a test piece for some quilt designs. Pretty annoyed at how wonky a couple of the lines are, but that was a mix of: canvas distortion due to embroidery hoop when drawing the lines in the first place, and my fabric pen being too erasable. By the time I got around to the last lines the marks were pretty much gone.

I think the next step would be to set up the fabric on a square frame and prick the design instead. Or maybe I should just hand-sew it, instead?


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