Sunday, April 24, 2005

I'm Back Home

It has been awhile since I last posted. A lot of miles have been added to the odometer since my last entry. One of the things I did was spend 10 days at Rutgers University--I'm taking myself back to Library School for some continuing ed work. Took my sewing machine with me and did a little work in my hotel room at night. I worked a bit on my Chirstmas quilt that I'm making as a gift and I worked on my 2" block quilt, but realized that I need an infusion of some new brights. I'm getting tired of the same, limited palette.

At home I started (at last!) a new fused piece combining silk on cotton. Photo forthcoming. I'm at the embellishing/embroidering stage so the piece is revealing itself to me. I hope to have some evening time to myself so that I can finish it. Lucky the quilters who have the day light hours to themselves and their quilts!

On my reading table are 3 books: When the Heart Waits, by Sue Monk Kidd; Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (just won the Pulitzer); and The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland.
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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