As if I didn’t have enough things to do, I signed up for a class at QU with Elizabeth Barton on working in a series. I have been wittering on about whether I should develop some of my beginnings of series further, so this seemed like an opportunity too good to miss. The class [...]
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I’ve finally overcome the inertia that has been paralysing me more or less since I finished my C&G course. (And I’m not even going to say how long ago that was.) I pinned the background fabric that I dyed about 3 weeks ago onto my design wall and started adding pieces of fabric onto [...] … 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 [...] Well I gave you the rear view of my latest quilt a couple of weeks ago, so here is the full frontal: I wrote here about part of the design process. You can see some more of the process over on UYE on this post. Part of the inspiration for the different coloured images [...] My quilt Reflections arrived back from Birmingham today – very quick delivery. I wasn’t sure whether I would get to see the judges’ comments, so I was pleased to find an envelope pinned to the back of the quilt containing these two judging sheets. It’s the first time I’ve had any official [...] Yesterday we took the train down to Stuttgart to visit the Color Improvisations exhibition in the Haus der Wirtschaft. It is an exhibition of quilts that highlights the work of a group of quilters that have studied with Nancy Crow over a number of years. Nancy Crow is the curator and her co-director [...] I’ve finished my quilt now for our UYE theme of shadows. It didn’t take me long to decide what I wanted to do. It has turned out as I expected, but now I’m not sure what I think of it. An interesting experiment, but I don’t feel compelled to continue with it. The reveal [...] A couple of weeks ago I discovered the Textile Blog, which has this to say about itself This blog concentrates on the history of textiles, but does include contemporary work. Among the subjects covered are printed, woven and knitted textiles, as well as rug, tapestry, quilting, embroidery, lace, and basketry design. One of the [...] Well when I had the inspiration for a quilt of colours disappearing into a black hole I didn’t really expect this to become reality. But unfortunately it has: I thought there was plenty of time for my quilt to arrive. It was posted off on July 5th at premium rate shipping that promised to [...] |
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