I decided to create a small project today to get me back into the swing of things… So I began to experiment. I thought I might try Cheryl Bridgarts' idea of drawing with thread on paper. It's not new to me, I've done it many times before… I've even put paper on quilt and heavily…
Category: Capture & Create
Big News is Here
Big news here! In honor of International Quilt Day today, (March 17, 2012), The Quilt Show www.thequiltshow.com, the web TV show hosted by Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, will "open" all of its shows from the first nine series–that is, from show 100 through show 913–for the entire weekend of March 16 –18. This…
Back again.
Apologies for deserting my blog friends, I spent the entire day sleeping yesterday after waking with a tummy bug in the middle of the night on Wednesday. My goodness, how can one feel so ill in just a short time. OK, it must be time for me to leave. I never get ill but this…
The coffee tastes better early in the morning. The air smells sweeter, The silence is golden. and I'm at work . All is well with the world.
A gem of a day.
Its been a beautiful day today. One of those early autumn warm gems that make it nice to be out and about. It's a holiday Monday today and it was nice to relax a little. A friend just visited with me on the phone a short time ago and she asked me how the Bayeux…
Wonderful stories in quilting.
After posting a less than positive post recently, I've been thinking a lot about the wonderful environment that I find myself in, Quilting. It's an encouraging, sharing environment to work in.l So I've decided to collect 'Quilting stories' Every Quilt has a story. This is one of mine. We had a wonderful friend, George. In…
From the perspective of a photographer
Photo gallery It was a rush to pick up my husband from work, pack the cameras… throw on some 'arty clothes' and head off down to the city. My son, just home from filming on the Sea Shepherd in the Antarctic was there…. but whoow… where? I haven't seen him for 3 months. There were…
Art with a little person.
My Mum, Shirley Smedley was a wonderful artist. She passed away last year. She loved her studio and it was a tragedy when she had to go to a care facility and leave behind her beloved 'creative' space. Happily, she really loved her beautiful room at Rest Haven 'Resort' as she called it and took…
Mentorship without mega egos
Thanks every one, the reason for blogging about this subject is that I was rather incensed at the discussion from a Textile Art group through their emails and I feel better that it isn't on my computer any more. It wasn't a personal situation, on the whole artists in every genre respect each other for…
Mentorship without mega egos
I put my head in my hands. My friends who create works of art by making quilts are all artists and yet some folk ….Oi….. they believe that their method and opinion is the only one. My idea about quilting is that its a sharing, creative business to work in and yes, I've been the…