2013 Moving forward

Moving forward..........

The intention of the theme in 2012 was to allow individuals to develop their work freely from whatever point they were currently at –without constraint but with a light touch framework to work within. It was hoped (and it proved to be the case!) that the theme helped us communicate with each other something about ourselves through our work and our intentions.

Moving forward into 2013 from this starting point we are choosing to work individually over the year on a series of work of our own choosing whether that series be related to a specific theme or process or design approach.

As in 2012 every two months a piece of work will be produced, starting January 2013. Size of the work for 2013 will be A3 (30x42 cm approx or 12x17inches) either portrait or landscape.


Sunday, July 1, 2012

Elephant Story.

This time I looked to my fabrics for inspiration. I wanted to use the bark cloth from Kenya and remembered the Elephant Story form Zimbabwe.




When God first made elephants their favouite food was butterflies. They ate huge numbers. God didn't want all the butterflies to be eaten so he told tthe elephants that he would make a tree with leaves like butterflies which would taste delicious. The Mopane Tree has been the elephants favouite food ever since, and there are hundreds of butterflies in Southern Africa.
Alison Farmer
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  1. I love your quilt, Alison, and what a lovely story too. I just love the African stories and have got quite a few volumes of them but this one was new to me. I do know that the Mopane trees attract worms, called "mopaniewurms, in Afrikaans and I even ate some of them long long ago.

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  2. Well done Alison. Yes, a lovely story - I hadn't heard it before either. The Ele's look great using the batik fabric - gives them some life somehow! BTW - I dyed some Barkcloth with Indigo - works great - come up black!

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