Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Fusing Furiously

I suppose that my next purchase is going to have to be a digital camera. I know that I'm missing just too much fun! I spent part of the morning fusing. I finished a nine-patch variation that I started in Melody Johnson's class 2 weeks ago. How I'd like to post it here on my blog! Then I started something new--new design, new fabric. Imagine 4 squares with hearts in the center. Well, that's the basis of the design, but then I added squiggly borders and stripey borders and then I ran out of stripes, and I ran out of time. Had to go to work! Darn! I can't wait to get home and now that I think of it, I can't wait for a digital camera, too.

While the fusing and the fantastic hand-dyed colors really set my heart racing, I am still working on keeping my traditional quilt skills up to snuff. Got my first installment in a Xmas block of the month yesterday and hope to make 2 blocks each month so that by Xmas, there will be 2 quilts. Also, I still have the 2" block quilt on my design wall, so I will continue to return to it as energy, $$, and fabric ebb and flow.
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PURLS OF WISDOM

"Color is the real substance for me, the real underlying thing which drawing and line are not."
--Sam Francis

"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart."
-- Philosopher Mencius

"We wear our attitudes in our bodies."
-- Patti Davis

Colour embodies an enormous though unexplored power which can effect the entire human body as physical organism.

Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the soul.
--V. Kandinsky
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for.
--Georgia O'Keeffe

Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
--J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Faith is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--E. L. Doctorow

Somebody once said that people become artists
because they have a certain kind of energy to release, and that rings true to me.
--Dale Chihuly