Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Fused Fiber Postcards


Pretty irconic, I think, since I've only been fusing a little over a year. I've been asked by an art professor at our college to present fused quilting in his contemporary craft class this spring. Yesterday the students began fusing Wonder-Under to their fabrics. Their first assignment is to made a fabric postcard.

I'm not sure about the W-U--am holding my breath. What will I do if it's the bad stuff that Mrs. Mel and others have discovered??!! Twenty students and a bolt of W-U! We'll see.

Haven't been blogging lately because I'm moving my 87 year old parents from OH to WV to be near me. We are closing and selling the house they built together 55 years ago. It's the hardest thing I've done in a long while, but they are very independent and capable and my sister & I with them are doing a little every day. Blessedly, everything is coming together--sold the house to the neighbor, found an antique dealer who will clean after we're gone, have found doctors, a lawyer, and a church for them when they are settled in their fabulous new apartment.They will be 1 mile from me, and that will be a good thing, as well as a new and different thing.

1 comment:

Karoda said...

Are the pictures of another workshop? Let us know how it goes.

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