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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Signs of Spring: Rhubarb Custard Meringue Pie

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 I adore rhubarb. My rhubarb plants are coming along nicely outside in the garden.  I have a huge planter tipped upside down over one of t...
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Family Recipes: Part II

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 In a second series of embroidered pieces containing family recipes, I used yet more recipes from my Grandma Blanche's recipe books.  S...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Cherry Tarts

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Yesterday was a sunny, perfect, spring day.  I dried some washing on the clothes line for the first time, and put my little tomatoes and eg...
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Monday, April 4, 2011

Family Recipes: Part I

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This recipe for drop-cookies is from Grandma's neighbour, Mrs. Myrtle Allwell. These embroideries are part of an on-going series of w...
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Grandes Dames: Grandma Blanche

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Circa 1930s, in front of the perennial border. This is the first in a new series of entries about the ladies and men who have played a f...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Spring Forward.

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Eggplants with their seed leaves. In winter, I hibernate. Hence the long silence from yours truly.  In spring, my energy returns, and so...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The Fruit Cellar of Miss H...

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Today, more photographs of my installation, The Fruit Cellar of Miss H...  in the Project Window at Harbourfront Centre . The exhibition...
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Thea Haines
Thea Haines is an artist and textile designer, who currently teaches textile design at Sheridan College, and numerous workshops in and around Hamilton. Her studio practice revolves around the use of natural dyes as an aspect of sustainable textile craft production - the focus of her 2012 MA thesis at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Lifelong and more recent obsessions include drawing, embroidery, baking pies, canning summer fruit, pickling the bounty of her vegetable garden, growing dye plants, and walking the woods and trails of Hamilton in search of local colour.
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