tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294353.post5612595461490721623..comments2023-11-02T08:23:06.850-04:00Comments on studio 78 notes: ugly, continuedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294353.post-61028123667514593982009-08-12T20:27:48.171-04:002009-08-12T20:27:48.171-04:00I got a kick out of the title of this blog. You k...I got a kick out of the title of this blog. You know I just spent a week at QBL doing something that I really think is ugly - I'm quite sure everyone was tired of me whining about it. I guess - I too - don't mind making a "dog" now and again - just want it to be a pretty dog :))Nina Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14316034317827146338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294353.post-44459695584863148542009-08-12T08:53:36.176-04:002009-08-12T08:53:36.176-04:00Rayna, first off... I like the piece you have been...Rayna, first off... I like the piece you have been working on! You have introduced a complexity in your design that wasn't there when you started.<br />As for Elizabeth's post, I'm torn... the last piece I just finished was made of hand-dyed fabric, and my sole reason for making it was to use some of that fabric, and to create a piece that was shaped other than rectangle or square. From Elizabeth's perspective, that would be a poor reason to create a quilt. I say, if there is an itch, I'm going to scratch it! And personally, I'm not too concerned if it meets anyone else's standards or criteria.Judy Sall Fiber Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05172226619205640720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294353.post-71532917842285391192009-08-12T05:38:15.224-04:002009-08-12T05:38:15.224-04:00I agree that it is hard to wrestle with the piece ...I agree that it is hard to wrestle with the piece of squares. Maybe because your approach to composition is so different: You arrange pieces and rearrange them and let the parts correspond until they melt into a "whole" thing. In this case, the melting process is blocked. I can still see the jewels, I mean those distinctly hand printed or discharged parts. They seem to me like immigrants who do not properly speak the language and so they have to accept jobs way below their academical grade.<br />I'd cut them out and start something new with them.<br /> <br />The comments on the posting by Elizabeth Barton were very interesting. She seems to have moved something.<br /> <br />There have been two general ways to start a quilt. The traditional way was to create something needed and useful and to salvage the scarce material that was there. The challenge was to make it look beautiful in adequate time.<br />Piecing is a bit like cooking a meal out of leftovers. <br />The opposite way is to use the traditional tools and material to express a story in the familiar language of quiltmaking. This will be an optical piece and be placed hanging from a wall.<br />And there is the third approach: I love to touch the material and I love to quilt and embroider. I'll do something that keeps my fingers busy and satisfies my need for luscious colours and material.<br />And it could be a reason for me to hang around in shops and buy beautiful fabric and threads.<br />OMG this is sooo tempting!<br />That's why I imposed the law on myself to use discarded fabric. The second law is to think: Is this work necessary? Do I need the thing I create? Or is it a story telling piece in which the use of fabric has a specific information or characteristics I cannot find in other materials?<br />Art quilts still have warm and useful textile bed covers as their ancestors. You can't help thinking at least: "This is a fabric piece." And this very thought is a story. <br /><br />If not, I paint a picture. Form follwos function.Evahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03005517826999307074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294353.post-17065688661120032192009-08-12T02:17:12.292-04:002009-08-12T02:17:12.292-04:00So glad you posted about this. I wondered where yo...So glad you posted about this. I wondered where you were when this discussion started. Now, I am having angst over being one of those seduced by their pretty fabric except that most of the time I don't create "pretty" fabric.Gerriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06292762162661584206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10294353.post-84691008948892186632009-08-12T01:54:28.996-04:002009-08-12T01:54:28.996-04:00Rayna, Elizabeth's post made me think of you, ...Rayna, Elizabeth's post made me think of you, but not as someone "seduced" by your pretty fabric--rather the example of pushing it and infusing it with meaning and intention.Terry Granthttp://www.andsewitgoes.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com