My next assessment piece for C&G is to be a wall hanging with the theme of nature. That leaves it all wide open. Having felt restricted sometimes by the narrow themes for some of the other activities I am now spoilt for choice and don’t know how to start making up my mind. All I know is that I don’t want to do something realistic, but would like to do something more abstract. I have some ideas, but nothing hard and fast yet.
I’ve been gathering inspiration from my usual sources – googling and reading blogs. I remembered liking some quilts by Jane Sassaman so was browsing her website. While doing so I discovered that you can buy her out of print book “The Quilted Garden” as an e-book now. Since there was no way I was prepared to pay the ridiculous prices being quoted for a second hand copy of the print version this seemed to be the best option. Although I have to say I do prefer to read books on paper and not be stuck at my computer to read them.
The second book I bought last week was C June Barnes’ book “Stitiching to Dye in Quilt Art”. I discovered this book on a post on the Twelve by Twelve blog in a post by Karen about her quilt for the theme Passion. It arrived at our house yesterday and I read it all in an afternoon and evening. I’m not sure yet whether I will be able to use any ideas from it for my next assessment, but it certainly has some interesting things to try out at some time.
The June Barnes book looks very interesting, may have to invest in this one.