Tuesday, July 25, 2006

QUILT WEEKEND

I have spent 7 hours fighting with Blogger! Sorry for such a poor post. I'll try again tomorrow.



I spent a terrific weekend with Mrs. Mel and a baker's dozen or so of the kindest, most talented women you could ever hope to meet.
Our retreat was at the Frederick Talbott B&B in Fishers, IN. I arrived just before the lightning & thunder and a rootin' tootin' Indiana thunderstorm. I knew it was a good omen. All the stagnant air was cleaned and cleared away leaving the atmosphere crisp and ready for our creative energies and color work.













The facilities at the B&B were cozy & clean. Huge bedrooms & baths, clean sheets & firm mattresses. And the food--delicious and beautifully served. Best of all was that I was not doing the cooking, cleaning, nor laundry and so everything was all the better for that.

The topic of our retreat was Design Small for Large Works.

And that was just what I needed. I really feel that I need help thinking about design elements and how to use them in planning an art quilt. I came home with several new ideas as well as a good quilt top.
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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