As the first showing of my quilt in the Text on Textile exhibit at Houston ended today I guess it’s now ok to post a picture of it on my blog. I find it very frustrating as it is always almost impossible to find many good images of the exhibition on the web and [...]
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This morning I received a FedEx parcel. It was much smaller than I was expecting. Funny how the mind plays tricks on you. I had forgotten how small the quilt was. This is what came out of the parcel: The packed up quilt is almost smaller than the exhibition catalogues that were included in [...] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York is currently showing the exhibition Savage Beauty. The exhibition, organized by The Costume Institute, celebrates the late Alexander McQueen’s extraordinary contributions to fashion. Alexander McQueen (British, 1969–2010) Dress Plato’s Atlantis, spring/summer 2010 Gray wool and silk/synthetic knit printed in jellyfish pattern Courtesy of Alexander McQueen [...] The first news I received this morning on opening my eyes was that my entry for the Text on Textiles juried exhibition has been chosen as one of 26 finalists. DH&PA was reading email in the small hours of the night. That was good news at the end of a week that hasn’t exactly [...] I uploaded my entry to the Text on Textiles exhibition a couple of days ago – with only a week left until closing. I was assigned artist and quilt number 8. Last year I was artist #39 and quilt #149. Unless a lot of quilters are leaving everything to the very last minute or [...] … according to the Daily Mail. They are reporting results published in the Journal of Public Health by the University of Glasgow. The results of the study show that all hobbies, particularly those that promote creativity are good for our well-being. It would seem that quilting helps your cognitive, creative and emotional well-being. Just [...] This is a question I have been asking myself for a few weeks now. It’s been quite some time since I posted anything, which is of course the one thing you are not supposed to do on a blog if you want a loyal readership. But since this blog is about my textile art [...] I discovered the work of Isabelle de Borchgrave by chance today while browsing around the www. Isabelle makes the most amazing costumes from rag paper. They range from the Medici Collection that reproduces the sumptuous garments from the Florentine Renaissance period to Haute Couture including wedding dresses and veils and a paper coat made [...] … I hope. I received an email on Friday asking me to give my permission for the quilt to leave the country (USA). We have an opportunity to send your quilt Colour Vortex overseas to be exhibited at the Open European Quilt Championships in the Netherlands during May 2011. This event does not [...] For the first time this year I made it to the Val d’Argent in France to visit the Carrefour Européen du Patchwork. We drove down on Wednesday afternoon to Colmar, where we were staying for the next few days. Colmar is an attractive town. We have been there before, but I had forgotten [...] |
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