tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69784854295452764542024-03-05T15:09:36.766+00:00VoyageVoyage – A group of textiles artists drawn together from around the world who vary in both their experience and in the nature of expression of their art. Their work broadly encompasses the understanding of a quilt in its loosest form. We exist as a virtual group on the internet, posting our work on the blog and communicating via a group site to enable us to share our work and exhibit.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger329125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-22572780239504785042018-12-30T20:09:00.000+00:002018-12-30T20:09:09.310+00:00Stretching Tradition 2018 Pieces "Canadian Voyage"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Leaving it to the last minute as usula!<br />
Started these pieces months ago but only got around to getting them near a finished state today.<br />
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My inspiration was a trip to Canada earlier this year. I used a selection of some of my favourite photos from the trip, played about with them in Photoshop and used a photo transfer method to get the images onto fabric. I wanted to try and achieve a minimalist feel to the pieces, I had to restrain myself from adding more layers of images, paint, stencils, etc.!<br />
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ShoshRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09053165752829218271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-45334665879706121462018-01-10T20:08:00.000+00:002018-01-10T20:08:18.346+00:00FREEDOM 1, 2, 3, 4What does "Freedom" mean to me? Are any of us actually "free"? If we are not "free", how do we obtain our "freedom"? And what is this "freedom" we are seeking?<br />
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I decided to focus on a bird. Birds seem to be icons of freedom--"free as a bird".<br />
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My quilts--Freedom 1, Freedom 2, Freedom 3 and Freedom 4--focus on our friend the bird and his attempt to find his "freedom". In Freedom 1, he has found a way to escape his cage, but the weather is stormy and the going is rough. His journey doesn't get any easier. Freedom 2 shows him flying over the noisy, dirty city with its confusing lights and hidden dangers. He flies past an old power plant in Freedom 3, dodging belching steam and polluted air. Finally, in Freedom 4, he arrives in "Paradise" with its clean air and water. His friend is already there, waiting for him. Now he can live his life to its full potential which to me represents total freedom.<br />
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Thanks to the Voyage Art Textiles group for allowing me a few extra days to complete and post photos of my quilts.<br />
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<br />Franceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11662784143715373079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-76783783063181326312018-01-09T21:50:00.000+00:002018-01-09T21:50:17.209+00:00Light on the Pool<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have always admired the photography of Edward Steichen , a 19th Century Photographer whose work helped transform photography to an art form. I particularly liked his images of pools with light playing on the surfaces. We have a small stream in the garden which feeds into a lake next door and I have taken loads of photographs in all types of light through different seasons - so Freedom was an opportunity to take the colours and tones from some of these images I had taken over the years to produce abstract pieces based on the images.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pieces are all done in silk - I love silk, despite its very unforgiving nature when you stitch it! It has such a luminosity which it retains when dyed and discharged. The pieces were dyed with procion then partly discharged and some pieces over dyed. The first two pieces were done whole cloth, the second two were strip pieced. I used the machine quilting to try to create some movement on the water surface.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-90586473696792044022017-12-31T15:09:00.001+00:002017-12-31T15:09:09.121+00:00"Saoirse" Freedom pieces<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Kind of hard to believe that a whole year has passed and tomorrow 2018 begins. No doubt I'll be making lots of lists tomorrow in my shiny new 2108 diary, yearly goals, ongoing projects and deadlines but today I need to finish off 2017 commitments! So here I am with my Freedom pieces that just got finished yesterday.<br />
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My inspiration for this pieces is personal freedom, issues and obstacles that I have overcome over the years from living with conflict (in many forms), dealing with sexism and finding ways of dealing with gender bias, freedom from self imposed issues and freedom from financial worries.<br />
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I make a lot of quilts, all sizes, and there are only so many you can give away or store, so I thought I might try working on an old quilt and using that are the starting point for these pieces.<br />
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The original quilt is a combination of hand marbled fabrics and a paper lamination of an image I put together in Photoshop, a computer design program, with layers cut away in places to expose the underlying pattern.</div>
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Paula Raffertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06669305674079696124noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-19988008290319923052017-12-29T11:55:00.000+00:002017-12-29T11:55:01.939+00:00Temporary Posting away from home!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Away from home until January 2nd - I have finished my pieces but not able to post photos of finished pieces on the blog as they are on my home PC - but I have some poor photos on my phone that I took before the bindings were finished - so I am doing a temporary post of the four pieces to show willing as there is nothing else up for this year yet! Will post finished piece photos with information about the Freedom pieces when I get back next week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been a lot less active creatively this year as time has been needed on other activities - all very enjoyable but only now trying to catch up with work I have planned out but not executed. I am involved in a contemporary embroidery exhibition next year at a local Art Gallery and that is taking time, both in the organisation and in the creation of some pieces of work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> My Voyage pieces are at last on the starting blocks - I am working on developing some of my watercolour sketches to use on fabric using thickened Procion dyes - we will see how that works out! The sketches are from Norfolk on the East Coast of England where I go </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">every year</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to sketch and paint with a watercolour artists group.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-47452167942098968812017-10-16T16:10:00.001+01:002017-10-16T16:10:38.391+01:00Update!!I was glad to see Paula's e-mail this morning about making an entry to the blog. It's a good idea and a worthy goal for each of us to make entries and regular intervals. We are separated by so many miles and time zones. I think the blog brings us much closer together. <br />
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Like Paula, I'm busy working on this year's Voyage Art Quilts. I have two pretty much finished and the last two are designed and ready to put together. My goal is to finish them before the first of December--because the first two weeks in December I'll be appearing in another play. This time I'm playing the Mother Superior in "Agnes of God". We started rehearsals two weeks ago and we are well into developing our characters. I'm trying to relax about learning my lines (and I have alot of them). As I have found with all of the other plays in which I have appeared, the lines just seem to be there because of the rehearsal process. Sure, I have to make a conscious effort to memorize, but it's amazing how much of the play is just "in my head". People always ask how we remember so many lines, but the play is about telling a story and that what the dialogue does--especially when you take the time to get to know your character. Not being Catholic, I had a great deal of research to do about nuns and convent life. I'm lucky because the girl who is playing Agnes, Megan Holcomb, is a devout Catholic. Megan and her mother took me with them to the Easter vigil at a convent located about 30 miles west of Surprise. The convent is for a contemplative order of nuns and they are in the process of building the convent and the church. Because they are a contemplative order, they spend their time in prayer and meditation and remain quite isolated from the outside world. The convent itself is sitting in a beautiful spot in the middle of the desert west of Phoenix and the end of a six-mile dirt road. The Easter vigil was beautiful and fascinating and I was able to meet two of the nuns which was a real honor, since I've never met a nun. I was so impressed by the solitude and peace that they have chosen for themselves.<br />
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My stepson, Jeremy, is a tattoo artist living in Oregon. He and his
wife and their two sons just moved to Hood River, Oregon, which is a
small town right on the Columbia River about 40 miles from Portland.
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river from Hood River. We were very worried about them, but they didn't
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I'm really enjoying working on this year's Voyage quilts. It took me some time to come up with a series of quilts about "Freedom", but I think my quilts will express that theme quite well. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's quilts!Franceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11662784143715373079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-47747485862487227422017-02-14T10:56:00.000+00:002017-02-14T22:57:27.192+00:00Reflections on Water<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My treasures<o:p></o:p></h2>
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focus on amulets as cultural treasures of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mediterranean</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> countries, mostly Turkey, Greece or Spain,
but also among citizens of Israel, who brought it as legacy from the countries
they immigrated from.<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">An <b>amulet</b> is an object that has the power to protect its
owner from danger or harm. Therefore, it </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">can be wear or hang as decoration on the walls or doorways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I focused on four very common icons and tried to explain what it means.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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palm-shape amulet. "Khamsah" is an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" title="Arabic language"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">Arabic</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> word that means
"five", but also "the five fingers of the hand". The hand, particularly
the open right hand, is a sign of protection that also represents blessings,
power and strength, and is seen as potent in deflecting the evil eye. The hand
can be depicted with the fingers spread apart to ward off evil, or as closed
together to bring good luck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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popular amulet that was transformed into jewelry, either neckless or bracelets,
offer various kinds of blessing to those who wear them.</span></div>
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been considered lucky. This ancient structure was tended to believe can protect
the house and its tenants against evil eye. Opinion is divided as to which way
up the horseshoe ought to be nailed. Some say the ends should point up, so that
the horseshoe catches the luck; others say they should point down, so that the
luck is poured upon those entering the home. Either way, those who believe it
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its pungent smell. It is also known for its efficiency to strengthen our immune
system. It is unclear how and what made it powerful against the evil eye and
removing negative energies. Facts are that those who believe in its power use
to hang garlic bulbs, tied to a braid made of natural fibers, in their hoses
for good luck. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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superstitions, so about garlic, a person would need "to do something"
to feel he has a way to influence and change his fate. It is said though for it
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famous "evil eye" in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mediterranean region</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">ancient Egyptian</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> symbol of protection, royal power and good
health. It was also bind to resurrection. Although it's antiquity, its power
still exists today and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">is the ultimate sign of protection.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an eye-shaped </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">amulet</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">, originally from Turkey. It is called so
because a typical nazar is made of handmade glass featuring concentric circles
shapes in dark blue, white, light blue and black. It is believed to protect its
owner from evil spirits and the jealousy. This is the reason why it is so
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are some special places that we return to again and again where we treasure memories of past visits and always intend to come back. My four pieces are based on two English places and two Italian places that we have grown to love. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Digital printing is something I have been very ambivalent about in the past unless it is using your own designs/art - I decided to experiment by using my own sketches and paintings of the places together with some photographs and text. I rendered them all with a simple ink application to give a cohesive feel to all the pieces, I wanted to get a 'pen and Ink' rather than photographic effect. I printed them all as separate images to create a collage of the place and fused then stitched them in place. I used cotton poplin treated to ensure permanence of the ink pigments.I then had fun trying out lots of different free motion quilting styles to match the needs of the sketches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A coastal town in the East of England where small scale fishing does still operate from the river estuary. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huge expanses of salt marshes stretch along the coastline with small river inlets where fishing still continues, a protected coastal site where wildlife flourishes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A beautiful town and port off the north east coast of Italy close to Trieste. The town is only reached by a long bridge causeway over the lagoon and is an island surrounded by the Mediterranean sea. The town and it's heritage have been preserved in this unique place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Roman port on the north east coast of Italy, a large amount of the port and the town remain as ruins amongst more modern developments. Enough of the town remains to understand the life that was led in Roman times . The mosaics are exquisite and so well preserved.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
</span>Hopi (Tohono O’odham) people live primarily on three mesas in
Northeastern Arizona, about 70 miles from Flagstaff. In Hopi cosmology, the katsinas
reside on the Humphreys Peak, approximately 60 miles west of Hopiland. Each
year, throughout the period from winter solstice to mid-July, these spirits, in
the form of katsinas, come down to the villages to dance and sing, to bring
rain for the upcoming harvest, and to give gifts to the children.<br />
<br />
The katsinas are known to be the spirits of deities, natural elements or
animals, or the deceased ancestors of the Hopi. Prior to each katsina ceremony,
the men of the village will spend days studiously making figures in the
likeness of the katsinam represented in that particular ceremony. The figures
are then passed on to the daughters of the village by the Giver Kachina during
the ceremony. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following the ceremony,
the figures are hung on the walls of the pueblo and are meant to be studied in
order to learn the characteristics of that certain Kachina. Edward Kennard,
co-author of <i>Hopi Kachinas,</i> says concerning the purpose of the kachina
figure, “Essentially it is a means of education; it is a gift at dance-time; it
is a decorative article for the home, but above all it is a constant reminder
of the Kachinas."<br />
<br />
We are losing the culture and arts of our indigenous peoples at an alarming
rate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their colorful history and customs
are cultural treasures to be prized and protected.<br />
<br />
The inspiration for the Katsina figures for my quilts came from the
modern-day Katsina carvings by Jerome Naquatewa, a half-Hopi, half-Zuni artist
living at the Zuni pueblo 150 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe his carvings capture the friendly,
playful essence of the Katsinas.<br />
<br />
1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Eagle Dancer</u>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually appears in the night ceremony in
March; ruler of the sky and messenger to the heavens.<br />
<br />
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2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Sun Face</u>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Represents the sun’s warmth and the hope for
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Franceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11662784143715373079noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-26195199452853871012016-11-19T14:45:00.001+00:002016-11-19T14:45:54.839+00:00<br />
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Majani is Kiswahili for tea leaves. I saved old tea bags and quilted them onto a piece of cotton dyed in strong tea. My husband returned from up country with a goat leg wrapped in gold embossed cellophane. The gold had come off on to the meat. After much trial and error I managed to emboss my tea bags using the same cellophane. Then came the cup and saucer and the tea plant.</div>
Gretchen Sanders Mwaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10361799370495342132noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-64892996781589056592016-10-25T07:42:00.001+01:002016-10-25T07:42:07.697+01:00My four TreasuresI was undergoing a rather difficult period of my life when I had to empty my parents' house in early summer. I had expected to find plenty of precious or not so precious memories, but the reality surpassed any imagination.<br />
My mother, who had lived in the house alone for about twenty years, had never, it seems, dumped anything unless it would stink in the long run. Even when things were torn, worn, shattered, broken, etc. she continued to keep them, all nicely washed, wrapped, boxed, categorised and labelled. I had found literally everything that I remember from my childhood and young adult years, including plenty of things from my grandparents from her side. <br />
These treasures inspired my four pieces in 2016: <i>Worn Shoes</i>, <i>Dislocated Knives, Shattered Glasses</i>, and <i>Broken Vases</i>. They were all made with a sew-cut-resew-cut-etc. technique, using a "parfait-dyed" background.<br />
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<br />Polyák Ildikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108935264462043494noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-48381425852232692812016-08-21T11:33:00.000+01:002016-09-16T08:46:46.772+01:00"Memento Mori-Stampi"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
And finally the fourth quilt this year and challenge completed!<br />
So this one is a little different to the others, in so much as the others where natural forms, shells and daisies. This one is made from "postage stamps" or more importantly stamps from my own collection.<br />
I think it was probably one of the first collections I started as a child, I loved the colours and patterns of the stamps. I was given my pocket money and spent it all on little packets of stamps from different countries. I loved trying to find out where the countries were in the atlas and can remember having particular trouble locating Yemen. I still have them all in five folders, very dusty but lovely to look at!<br />
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Paula Raffertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06669305674079696124noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-12785395272389753572016-08-14T11:17:00.000+01:002016-09-16T08:48:00.345+01:00"Memento Mori- Bellis Perennis"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Daisies of all shapes and sizes but particularly the small kind found in gardens with the pretty pink edges on the petals have always been my favourite flowers.<br />
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Flower symbolism associated with the daisy is purity, innocence, loyal love, beauty, patience and simplicity! Daisies are often depicted in meadows in medieval pantings and are believed to be over 4,000 years old.<br />
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I can remember sitting as a child and making daisy chains and creating necklaces and crowns many times. I still love the flower and once picked a bunch of Dog Daisies and didn't realise until the following morning where the name came. I walked into my kitchen to the smell of smelly wet dog, needless to say they haven't appeared inside again!<br />
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Had a bit of a fascination with Ladybugs as a child too, used to love to let them walk across my hands until one pooped on me!<br />
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Porto 1<br />
Here are my 4 Voyage Quilts, although I may change the last one, and do a different one.<br />
Porto is a UNESCO World Heritage Site so a "Treasure". I place I have been to a couple of times and am going back again to later this year<br />
I love the waterfront area, most of the houses have either painted or tiled facades, and most have washing hanging out of the windows.<br />
This one was fun to make, and I tried a free approach - just cutting random shapes for the windows etc - not trying to be too careful.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189457749888979417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-42381619660573670242016-08-08T11:03:00.000+01:002016-09-16T08:48:25.828+01:00"Memento Mori- She Sells Sea Shells 2"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times";">As usual when I start preparing materials for a
quilt I get a bit carried away and end up with enough fabrics for ten quilts!!
I had such fun choosing and preparing the shells for the first piece that I
still have loads left over. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times";">Anyhows shells have also been a part of my adult
life and I have wonderful memories or collecting shells on a beach in Kerry
year after year with my kids when they were tiny tots. My daughter Isobel
made a big mosaic mirror for her room with them and there's still at
least two buckets of them sitting in my studio, somewhere!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The background fabric is hand dyed cotton. The shells were put onto fabric using a photo transfer method. The skull was assembled and stitched to a black background first, then cut out and appliquéd to the background fabric. Machine quilted using a YLI variegated thread.</div>
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Paula Raffertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06669305674079696124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-14295801811686244582016-08-04T05:32:00.000+01:002016-08-04T05:32:09.577+01:00<b style="background-color: white; color: #220a00; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is my fourth nd last of the series for 'Treasures' 2016 called 'REEF'</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">all pieces are based on Australia and its 'Treasures' in abstract form.</span></i></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895975717959334000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-12686288778532537032016-08-04T05:27:00.000+01:002016-08-04T05:27:20.447+01:00<b style="background-color: white; color: #220a00; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is my third of four pieces for 'Treasures' 2016 called 'RAINFOREST'</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Sandra Sullivan - Australia</span></i></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895975717959334000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-70248715204675393522016-08-04T05:21:00.001+01:002016-08-04T05:21:33.767+01:00<b style="background-color: white; color: #220a00; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is my second of four pieces for 'Treasures' 2016 called 'DESERT'</span></i></b><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895975717959334000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-31994494746085977642016-08-04T04:45:00.001+01:002016-08-04T04:45:22.873+01:00<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is my first of four pieces for 'Treasures' 2016 called 'RED CENTRE'</span></i></b><div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895975717959334000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978485429545276454.post-56030110932678165292016-07-29T21:19:00.000+01:002016-09-16T08:49:02.886+01:00"Memento Mori- She Sells Sea Shells...."<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's only been this week that I have had a chance to get stuck into my "Treasured Memories " pieces.<br />
I have had the research and some of the prep work done for ages but lots of other projects have kept me very busy these last few months!<br />
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<b> "Momento Mori - She Sells Sea Shells....."</b><br />
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Momento Mori (we all must die) is a medieval christian practice of keeping a reminder of death near, not as a morbid act but to remember that we all must die and so should live life to the full. </div>
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I have been using the skull image as a theme in my work for several years now and still find new ways of exploring and playing with it. I'm a huge horror and science fiction fan and ever since Buffy the Vampire Slayer brought vampire and horror into the mainstream I don't feel like such a weirdo working with this sort of image!</div>
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I spent a lot of time by the sea as a child and have lots of memories of collecting sea shells and bits and piece on the sand.</div>
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I found old drawings of shells and used a photo transfer method to put them onto fabric. They were then stitched onto a black fabric and then appliquéd onto a background and quilted.</div>
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