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I have to admit that I wasn’t quite sure what all the fuss was about when McQueen’s death last month hit the headlines. He wasn’t actually on my radar, although I wasn’t completely unaware of him. A little research showed that he certainly designed some wonderful fashions. But when I saw this gallery of images on [...] I first read about Valerie Goodwin in Dec 2009 /Jan 2010 issue of Quilting Arts. Her quilts appeal to me. I like the bird’s eye view and her use of colour. She is an interesting quilter as she has a degree in Architecture and teaches classes in architectural design. She has a web site [...] I got up very early on Sunday – for me. We were booked onto a guided tour around the Botticelli Exhibition at 10:15 in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. Just recently we have been to a couple of guided tours around exhibitions and have really enjoyed them. So it was a relatively small price to [...] On Thursday evening we went for a private guided tour of the exhibition “Art for the Millions” at the Schirn Gallery in Frankfurt. The company DH works for is a corporate sponsor of the gallery and this is one of the perks for employees and spouses. The exhibition shows over 100 life-sized figures in seven [...] Well a couple of days have gone by since I got back from the UK and the opening of the exhibition. I have had time to reflect and collect my thoughts together. These are the things that I have learnt from taking part in the exhibition – both from the process up front and then [...] I was working on my tea cosy this afternoon. I have more or less finished both sides to it now. I am making a pieced background for the sea and the wave and am appliquéing the white horses onto this. I am using the technique of fabric collage, that I learnt at Quilt University in [...] I recently decided to try out a subscription to Fiberarts. I already subscribe to Quilting Arts, but was interested to see what the difference was. The long awaited first issue arrived this morning with the latest issue of Quilting Arts. I had to read the new one first of course. I don’t usually spend [...] Today we went into Frankfurt to visit 2 exhibitions at the Schirn Gallery. The one which I enjoyed the most was of works by E. W. Nay from the 1960s. These are his late works and represent a change of style marked by his participation in Documenta III in 1964. For that he produced 3 [...] I thought the recent email from Quilting Arts gave very good advice. Since I can’t link to it I’m posting the text here for those of you who don’t get the emails. The advice is from Frances Holliday Alford. Embellishment should be used in the same way we garnish food. It is important to consider scale. [...] I read this on the BBC website today: Knitting can delay memory loss It also says engaging in a hobby like reading a book, making a patchwork quilt or even playing computer games can delay the onset of dementia, a US study suggests. Watching TV however does not count – and indeed spending significant periods of time in [...] |
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