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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 from seeing all the entries for the award displayed together. 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 a [...] 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 a [...] 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 large [...] 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. If [...] 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 front [...] My next assignment for the C&G course is to make a small piece of patchwork from recycled fabric. It could be a piece of clothing or a household item. I’ve decided to use an old pillowcase, which probably belonged to my Grandma. When we were emptying my Dad’s flat last summer I brought back a large [...] We went to the Schirn Gallery in Frankfurt on Sunday to visit 2 exhibitions. One was of the so-called période vache of René Magritte. It shows a series if paintings from 1948 for an exhibition conceived as a provocation of and an assault on the Parisian public. I can’t say that I really found anything much [...] I am currently taking time out from doing my C&G course to take a class at Quilt University on Fabric Portraits. I’m taking my C&G at DesignMatters. Both are distance learning courses. Both courses are completely online. I never meet my tutor face to face and they never get to see my work in the real. But [...] Unfortunately in English we don’t have many nouns with gender specific forms so in English the title of the exhibition at the Schirn gallery in Frankfurt has to be Women Impressionists – not so concise. We went to see the exhibition last Thursday, which was the May Day public holiday here. We thought that as [...] |
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