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Mon 23 Feb 2015

Glorious Organization!

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Asian fabrics and solids neatly folded…I used my ruler to fold them uniformally.

More fabric!

The white fabrics are begging for a project!

My shelf of synthetic fabric, which is lovely and bright.

My fat quarters have a great new home in this “drawer” my husband made for me!

During the Holidays and into the New Year, I spent quite a lot of time organizing my work space, and I have pictures to prove it.  I moved furniture and folded fabric.  I also created bins for loose scraps and tried to create a much more productive, fluid space.  I have worked a lot in the space over the last month or so, and I am pleased!  I still have snippets of cloth on my sewing table that need to find their way into some sort of vessel…I need to be able to see them, though, for inspiration.  I’m working on that problem!  Today, I provide pictures of the fabric!  The folding took me a day or so, but I love how neat and visible it all is.  I’m still contemplating lips, too…my sketchbook is helping my thinking.

 

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Wed 18 Feb 2015

Embellished Madness

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I have been working on my Madness panel, and I think I am making slow, but good progress.  I finally finished embellishing my “mask” free-machine embroidered piece, and I found the perfect spot for it on the Madness panel.  I also have more photos of the embroidery I have been doing elsewhere on the piece.  I have a lot left to do…I am currently contemplating lips…lips to represent the voices some artists, like Virginia Woolf,  hear that drive or hinder their work.

The “mask” piece with French knots, bullion knots, and button hole lace.

A lovely seam with bullion knots and French knots. You can just see the web stitches peaking out from under one of the free floating seams.

A small, stuffed applique with metallic French knots on the chain stitched seam.

One of my favorite seams. Tiny stab stitches that seemingly are all around.

A better view of those web stitches with black French knots, too.

 

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• Creating

  • "It was an act of courage to take the scraps of life provided and stitch them together, wrestling the chaos into order, taking what had been cast off and creating something from it, something useful, beautiful, and strong, something whose true value was known only to the heart of the woman who made it." The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kedd

• “Metaphysical midges”

  • "Yes, you must try to rethink what is real. Perhaps It is only a matter of language that traps you. You May yet find a new one in which experience overlaps Words. Or find some words that make the Truth come true." "The Whole Question," by Robert Penn Warren

• Desire

  • "Wunsch's loose lower lip curled in amusement.
    Then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he spoke seriously. 'Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing--desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little. It brought Columbus across the sea in a little boat...'"

    The Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather

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