Enjoy the Journey
Work by Kate Tribe – Parcel Room Gallery
10am – 3pm every Friday and Saturday 18 July – 5 September
Enjoy the Journey’ celebrates life’s motion. Inviting you to savour travel, conversations, activity and quiet moments of reflection and creativity. We need a balance. Hand embroidered cross-stitch artworks, crafted during train journeys, intertwine vivid visual narratives with written stories born of chance dialogues and situations. The artworks break free from pre-designed patterns, embracing the raw spontaneity of freehand stitching within a cross stitch technique. A section shares the journey from pattern to free design through a timeless star. Showing you how to develop your creative narrative, instilling a deep passion for exploration, innovation, and transformation.
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Kate Tribe
Bright Stars 2 2017
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
27.5cm x 27.5cm
$585
Statement: Stars within stars using multiple (not variant) threads. When there is space in our lives, we can shine bright. Creativity and new ideas come from space and looking outwards.Part of the ‘Mooy Stars’ series
Kate Tribe
What happened there, 2022
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
27.5cm x 27.5cm
$715
Statement: A representation of a strange time. Hand-dyed variant threads but not commuter life; home life and movement with a smaller space. However, there was calmness in the extra time and sense of community.
Part of the ‘Transitions’ series
Also available as A3 limited edition print: $150
Kate Tribe
Ripple effect of conversations 2024
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
27.5cm x 27.5cm
$585
Statement: Represents the many sounds in a conversation and how, as they get further from the initial one, it changes, creating a ripple effect.
Part of the ‘Transitions’ series
Kate Tribe
Fold and pull, 2020
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
45.8 cm x 33.7cm
$715
Statement: During the bushfire and covid, we were pulled and turned. We sometimes felt like we were doing U turns. Through it though, was a bright energy of community coming together.
Part of the ‘Being pulled and folded’ series.
Also available as A3 limited edition print: $150
Kate Tribe
Deconstructed Roses, 2024
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
45.8cm x 33.7cm
$715
Statement: The materials for this work were gifted to me in the form of a kit with a pattern for roses. I had these roses in mind as I stitched while experimenting with the approaches of both Being pulled and folded and Commuter Life series of works.
Part of the ‘Transitions’ series
Also available as A3 limited edition print: $150
Kate Tribe
New Horizon, 2019
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
45.8cm x 33.7cm
$715
Statement: Sometimes we start something, and inspiration fritters away. It needs more experience or a different perspective to finish. This is about those new horizons that don’t come straight away.
Part of the ‘Transitions’ series
Kate Tribe
Border, 2022
Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
33.5cm x 24.7cm
$455
Statement: A simple earthy border of pattern within pattern. I was thinking about interior design and patterns on walls. A tile motif or edging on a wall. How they are immovable art but integral to appreciation of spaces.
Part of the ‘Transitions’ series
Kate Tribe
Commuter life isn’t so simple 2019
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
33.5cm x 24.7cm
$585
Statement: Once you’ve adjusted to a new life, it goes from a lovely new rhythm and pattern to seemingly overly complex as your old life hangs on. So you feel like you’re living two lives – maintaining the past and building the future.
Part of the ‘Commuter Life’ series.
Also available as A4 limited edition print: $80
Kate Tribe
Inverse, 2023
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
33.5cm x 24.7
$585
Statement: There are arrows pointing to the centre and lines to follow in loops, others that just fill space. It small but full of paths for eyes to wander and give your brain space to consider a problem needing to be solved.
Part of the ‘Commuter Life’ series.
Kate Tribe
Mini works, 2024 onwards
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth
NFS
Statement: These works started as a 100 day project and I now take it on long train journeys. The creative restriction is that each work needs to be stitched within a small flexi-hoop and with thread left over from other projects and combined in a pile.
This is the ‘Mini works’ series.
Kate Tribe
Uniforms for travel 2025
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
$585
Statement: First in series, combining printed photos and cross stitch. This asks about the uniforms we wear. What they say about us, or what we want you to believe about us. Many men wearing blue suits with me placed in the foreground.
Part of the ‘Enjoy the Journey’ series.
Kate Tribe
Cerulean Labyrinth 2024
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
$585
Statement: Stitched in variant wool and cotton ply on 6-count Aida cloth. While inspired by computing, the size meant it was more practical to stitch at home. No stained glass involved in the design, but you’re not alone if you make that connection.
Part of the ‘Commuter Life’ series.
Kate Tribe
Windmills on the Horizon, 2025
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
$455
Statement: The view from the Indian Pacific travelling from Adelaide to Broken Hill. This increasingly common view is scattering the horizon for more than this journey.
Part of the ‘Enjoy the Journey’ series.
Kate Tribe
Magenta waves, 2025
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
$455
Statement: The simplicity of the shades of one colour. This time selected for its combination of magic and power. The alternating waves, helping us to move between these.
Part of the ‘Being pulled and folded’ series.
Kate Tribe
Eagle Eyes 2024
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
$1950
Statement: Stitched over nine years and named from the beginning, from the two centre squares likeness to eagle eyes. Progressed in phases, it represents life paths focused on the end, not the journey.
Kate Tribe
Fragment Earrings, 2024
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
$260
Made to order and posted.
Statement: The first design in the ‘Fragments’ series where the earrings are a fragment of a major work. These earrings are a fragment of Eagle Eyes.
Part of the ‘Fragments’ series.
Kate Tribe
Orange square, 2025
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
$455
Statement: The simplicity of the shades of one colour. This time selects for its combination of warmth and energy. The ‘being pulled’ theme in larger shapes pulls us in and pushes us away.
Part of the ‘Being pulled and folded’ series
Kate Tribe
Horizon view, 2025
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
$325
Statement: A simple view from the train. The tracks for the opposite direction running to the side, then a distant horizon of undulating hills.
Part of the ‘Enjoy the Journey’ series
Kate Tribe
Nature’s Balance, 2024
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
$520
Statement: Stitched during a time of appreciating the ground we walk on, and how earthy brown twists and turns. We aim to be surrounded by green and yellow shining down on us.
Part of the Being pulled and folded series.
Kate Tribe
Post reno, 2022
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
$325
Statement: A re-connection to stitching after a renovation. Creatively, I was in a space of thick lines and placement. How items connect and don’t and that is what flowed onto the fabric.
Part of the Transitions series
Kate Tribe
Monochrome stars, 2012
Cotton. Cross stitch on Aida cloth.
$325
Statement: A favourite feature of a restaurant set menu is a break from decision making. Stitching stars is like that. Pick the colour, like a restaurant, and enjoy the almost automatic process that follows.
Part of the ‘Moody Stars’ series
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