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Be sure to click on this as it will take you to the flcikr page where you can read a fascinating description of the plant.
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So far this has been a wonderful day…quiet and in some way reverential. LIving each moment fully is not as easy as it might seem to be….I have to get control of my mind and live with a certain sense of intention and spontaneity at the same time. To do the next thing and understand that everything is my life, everything is me, nothing is a burden unless I make it one-that also requires a concious letting go of the stories I habitually use to get through the day and define
myself. In fact,it seems to me that letting go of self-definition is what frees me to meet the moment as it is, to be open to whatever happens and stand on the ground
of the moment.
in gassho
kaethejean
April 17, 2008
so crisp and clean, the snow is the perfect wather and the sky is just stunning behind it!
April 15, 2008
Flower photography doews not get better than Rainier Fritz!
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04 15 08 Janies black cq purse block
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Here it is, my second patch on Janies block. I did the monogram.
March 26, 2008
Due to the incredible amount of spam
that has been showing up on my all too infrequent posts, even the older ones! i have disabled(I think) the ability to comment. Of course anyone who wishes to may email me directly(and if i don;t know you and it is nonsense, of course you will end up in the spam bucket and i will never see your email anyway, so why bother, ok) and i will be glad to reply.
Thanks for understanding!
ktj
Isn’t this fabric swatch pretty! It’s a Marcus Brothers print.
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20080304 Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina 001
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20080304 Viedma Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina 003
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20050814 Bell Atlantic Tower, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1001
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March 15, 2008
Here is Margaret.P.’s small purple block. It is to be the center of a small cushion.
There is some wonderful silk ribbon embroidery in one corner
by Carol L. in the shape of a heart. The colors she chose really complement the purples!
Margaret used a metallic thread to crochet a small shell strip and added into the seam on
one patch. That’s where I chose to work. I pulled the crochet in to make the scallops really
sharp, and then added pearls to the crest of each scallop. ON the very narrow strip next to the
crocheted shells i make little flowers using perle cotton and small white pearls. I hope you like
what i did Margaret. If you click the pic will open to a larger size.
March 13, 2008
Here is something that Maureen C. is doing, and it just really caught my eye. I don;t have details as to the size or what is planned for it, but i do know that i really really like it….very peaceful.
March 2, 2008
Sunrise Clouds over Torrelit (not an HDR)
Originally uploaded by Ricardo Carreon - 100,000 Views in my stream!
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Il deserto dei Tartari (The desert of the Tartars)
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In the Maldives—-this is maybe the one place i would like to be anytime! Of course Flickr has opened so much of the world that i had not seen. But every photo of the Maldives is missing ME in it!
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February 19, 2008
You can click on this and it will open quite large. This is a very pretty block
with soe interesting fabrics. I love the color scheme. You can;t see the whole block
since it wouldn;t fit on the scanner. My work is the thin strip of ribbon on the bottom
of the brown patch, the appliqued butterfly and the chain stitch design in pink with green
beads that covers most of the brown patch.
January 11, 2008
January 11, 2008
The Icelandic horse. This is a special amazing animal if you don’t know.
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The Icelandic horse. This is a special amazing animal if you don’t know.
Originally uploaded by Mundilfari
See the link (I hope it is still working): www.hiddentrails.com/general/breeds/icela
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January 6, 2008
This looks great close up…just click on the photo and it will take you to the flickr page where you can enlarge it.
January 6, 2008
Can you imagine coming up against this while swimming!
January 6, 2008
I am switching the images from my other blog to here.
November 13, 2007
Well, I have finished the embroidery on another post card and decided to upload a scan of it, and a previous card….these are holiday postcards and are probably the only ones i will get done this year that have a strictly winter holiday theme…..
this one is actually quite bright and has beads in all the little squares of the plaid…
This one is also fairly bright and you may not be able to tell, but what looks like yellow thread in some places on the left side of the card is actually beads, you are seeing the reflection instead of the whole bead. I particularly like this because of the beading and the gold couched thread around the shapes in the second stripe. I continued out some of the shapes from the first stripe into the second all red one. The third stripe which is a darker red with gold snowflakes print i did the same thing …brought some of the lines out into the all red piece and beaded some of the snow flakes.and then beaded in some snowflakes.
November 1, 2007
If you have not paid a visit to Jude Hill and her Spirit Cloth blog, you are missing a master storyteller in action. Her narrative pieces are truly wonderful, not only for the words she uses to tell about the pieces, but the embroidery and applique is visually wonderful. She tells stories that are mythical….and real at the same time.
I have been thinking a lot about that lately, stories, that is…and how they are told. And also I have been thinking about outsider art as well….as in, untrained people making art(that’s me-the untrained part) wondering if having training helps you tell your story better.I often think most of my stories would begin the same way..once upon a time there was a little girl.
And then what???? Do i put the words on the fabric? How could i illustrate in fabric the concept of Once? I want to say, Once(and only ONCE) Upon A Time and Far Away there was a very little girl named me…because to tell the truth, when i look back that far, it has the aura of being a fairy tale…of being something the “I” that i am now has no real connection to…it is remembered as a well loved story, a wish that it could be the same again in innocence and possibility.But then I always have wished that magic was real and that the rainbows in the oily water next to a street curb were a reflection of something wonderful just underneath, instead of just gritty rain water. And yes, I wanted to climb inside the bubbles that i blew and go all over the world and see it through curved rainbows.I used to think i lived a charmed life….then i realized i was just living my life as it came unrolling like a carpet toward me….or, to put it another way, the life i had by jumping always headlong into the future. And here I am….wanting to tell the story of how the unknown and always exciting tidbit of the future that the days always seemed…how they became THIS life, THIS set of circumstances. And how time has slowed down and speeded up. The days go slower and the years go faster. It’s not that i want to see how it all turns out, mostly because i think it has already been all turned out…..and anyway, we all know how it all turns out. Remembered by friends and family for a time, by works, for a time(maybe) and after that the only record is your name on paper or stone. So, would you rather be the grasshopper or the ant?
October 21, 2007
10 21 07 Sunday Morning with the NYPL Digital Archives
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Anyone interested in design, or just plain interested in graphics should be making a bee-line to the New York Public Library Digital Archives.. Sharon B. mentioned this quite a while ago, and I have been digging around ever since….with amazing results. The latest find is under the Arts and Literture heading. If you scroll down the list of categories you will find one on posters of the turn of the century…..don’t pass this up…..getting to that page opens several more categories, all of them posters of one sort or another…..they are truly incredible. And, on top of that, if you are interested in history, reading the words is pretty interesting too!
As some of you may know, fibromyalgia causes amplified pain and fatique..so what i do is……..gggg …in between doing the things I have to do that sap my energy, i sit down at the archives and just go through them…saving images along the way that i might want to look at later, or send to someone.
Here’s a tidbit, just in case you need a nudge……
And another…
You wont be sorry you checked it out.
i was also thinking about Jude Hill’s exploration of dots and wondering where the term
“polka dot” came from…we all know exactly what polka dots are, no matter what the size or color….all you need are are regularly spaced dots of color on a ground….i think all the polka dots i have ever seen were in a half-drop pattern as opposed to be all lined up in row after row. Amazingly enough, wikipedia doesn;t seem to have a blurb on it, and pluggiong the tried and true entry of “define:xyz” into google doesn;t net a thing either…does anyone know ?
More on dots though, usually, the dot part is the positive space, if you make the dot the negative space, and then ..cut it out…you have a hole….so maybe transparent dots are really round windows? I think dots usually are of something………”the light dotted the carpet of leaves with gold”…”you have a dot of mustard on your chin”…”did you dot the i’s and cross the t’s”….. rather than of nothing…anyway, all this is to say that i was thinking about my next postcard and how to play around with dots, invisible or othewise.
October 20, 2007
On one of the cq lists i belong to there has been (from time to time) some discussion about piecing the patches onto the foundation. Most use the flip and sew method …..much like the paper piecing method used in sane quilting to create picture blocks.
I personally don;t use it, but that is mostly becuase i
1. don;t like getting up and down from the sewing machine to sew each patch on.
a swivel chair would make that sooo much easier!
2. I don;t like the fact that you start in the middle and as you