tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8804042014570001172024-03-18T17:15:36.544+00:00Crafting a LifeArt, craft, projects and life with Gillian Cooper...
Artist, Tutor, Writer and MotherUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-6982885473583474652018-01-31T10:41:00.000+00:002018-01-31T10:41:37.679+00:00Old Quilts from the Guild and New Quilts by me<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two velvet log cabin blocks</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm going to stop apologising for the time between posts. Life is, happily, very busy and when it comes to down to do I write a blog post or get things ready for the students due in the next day - class prep wins every time. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of a sateen wholecloth</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So when I can, I'll add a post of happenings.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A coverlet made from shirting samples</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In November, to help the C&G Diploma students with their illustrated study of the history of British Quilting, I borrowed a suitcase collection of quilts from the <a href="http://www.quiltersguild.org.uk/" target="_blank">Quilters' Guild</a>. Over the course of the two week loan period, each group got a chance to see the quilts and the stories about them got developed and embellished, as there is little factual information about their history. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of a silk hexagon coverlet</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why did the maker of this beautiful silk hexagon quilt stop? Did she hate making it? Was she forced by her mother and stopped the moment she left home? Did her eyesight fail? Did she fall into poverty and couldn't afford any more ribbons for it, but couldn't make herself cut it up to be used more practically? Did she pass away and her daughters couldn't bear to continue? Wondering about the makers is a lot of fun. It is a shame we know so little, which is why quilt historians are adamant that every quilt should be labelled to help future historians with their musings. I admit this isn't something I'm always good at.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail from another wholecloth, with a heavy wool wadding</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To give others who aren't students here a chance to see these quilts, I had an Open Day. Alongside the antique quilts, I displayed some of my newer pieces. It was lovely to juxtapose the old and modern, seeing the similarities and the differences. The cake also went down well, and was definitely kept in a separate room from all these antique quilts!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course, being me, I forgot to take photos when the room was filled with visitors, but it was suitably busy and enjoyable. The collection, called 'Textile Treasures' is still available to be borrowed from the Guild. Despite the responsibility of having to look after the antique quilts, I really enjoyed having them here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://finecellwork.co.uk/" target="_blank">Fine Cell Work</a> is a charity with the aim of rehabilitation of prisoners through stitch. Volunteers go into prisons and teach inmates how to stitch. This not only gives prisoners something fill the long hours of confinement and a way of making some money in prison, but can be life changing as it can give the stitcher hope, discipline and self belief, which can greatly improve their job prospects upon release.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The author, <a href="http://www.tchevalier.com/" target="_blank">Tracy Chevalier</a>, became very interested in quilting when she was researching one of her books and is still involved in it today. She commissioned this quilt and has written an essay in the accompanying book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The quilt comprises of 63 squares, each stitched by an inmate who works with Fine Cell Work, giving their interpretation of what sleep means to them. Whilst it is always interesting to discover how different people interpret the same theme, such as the Bedtime Stories Quilt, which I wrote about <a href="http://gilliancooper.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/bedtime-story-quilt-at-museum-of.html" target="_blank">here</a>, this quilt is fascinating as it gives an insight into the lives of people we do not normally consider.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sleep is something we all need, sometimes it comes easily, other times it is something elusive and it has a massive impact on our lives. Prison makes sleep harder due to the inescapable noisy and crowded environment, which gives the interpretations an added poignancy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This book, which accompanies the Sleep Quilt, has lovely details of all the blocks, along with details of what inspired the maker and the impact of making on them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is available from 31 October 2017 and until 16 November 2017, it is being crowdfunded through <a href="http://bit.ly/TheSleepQuiltKickstarter" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a>, so additional benefits are available through this scheme. All royalties from the book will go to Fine Cell Work.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-12365688347209210862017-10-30T15:36:00.000+00:002017-10-30T15:36:57.501+00:00Musee Rodin, Paris - Anselm Kiefer and trees<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of Anselm Kiefer's painting</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whilst in Paris, I was determined to see the exhibition of Anselm Kiefer's work at the <a href="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/" target="_blank">Musee Rodin</a>. I am always fascinated by work by an artist inspired by another artist's work. In this case, Kiefer was basing his work on some of Rodin's drawings of cathedrals in France. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These paintings were huge and really blew me away. The scale of them and the textured surfaces, neither of which can be adequately shown in a photo were stunning. I loved them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you would expect Musee Rodin is full of Rodin's sculpture - you can see 'The Thinker' in the background of this photo, taken through one of the windows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Actually, I'm not a mega fan of the Rodin sculptures - but the Museum and the grounds are lovely and I got very excited by the tree bark!</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-65059859348626636982017-10-25T17:36:00.000+01:002017-10-25T17:36:20.259+01:00Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Last week I was in Paris for a few days whilst going to pick up my work from Galerie de la Place in Auxerre. The sun shone (unlike at home where the remains of Hurricane Ophelia were bringing rain and wind), <span style="text-align: center;">and I managed to visit a few galleries.</span><br />
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The <a href="http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en.html" target="_blank">Fondation Louis Vuitton</a> is a relatively new museum in Paris. The building by Frank Gehry was astounding. In fact, I was more impressed with it than I was by the blockbuster exhibition on there of highlights of New York's MOMA. I could have spent hours photographing different angles of the building, enjoying the reflections and the interplay of reflections, glass, steel and wood. <br />
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There is a permanent installation by <a href="http://www.olafureliasson.net/" target="_blank">Olafur Eliasson</a>, which you can see in the photos - it is the yellow columns. It was stunning and the shade of yellow was very welcoming, if that is not a strange thing to say.<br />
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My favourite piece of the MOMA show, was the final room - a sound installation by the artist <a href="http://www.cardiffmiller.com/" target="_blank">Janet Cardiff</a>. The sound of choral music echoed up the high walls giving a gorgeous and enveloping sound.<br />
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My top tip if you do visit is to book online as they appeared to only have one x-ray security machine and it was very slow for those of us who hadn't booked.<br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-11258856517454641192017-09-30T14:14:00.000+01:002017-09-30T14:14:02.448+01:00Recent sketchbook pages<div class="Body">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As I have just shown you some of my students’
sketchbook work, here are some pages from my own. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This year I am basically
teaching full time, which doesn't leave much time for developing my own work. I
now also have sympathy for those who do not have a dedicated work space as I am
constantly moving my things out of the studio to make room for students (this
isn't a complaint - I love having students here). </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So often it is easier for me
to draw and sketch in the short time I have available than to get the sewing
machine out. And besides, I'm really enjoying it. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is so long since I wrote my blog, I have
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So let's start with the exhibition of
the C&G sketchbook course, which took place in June. All of the group had
worked really hard over the year and it was lovely to give them the opportunity
to share what they had accomplished with a wider public. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The variety of work was fab - we had tried so
many different techniques over the course and each student had interpreted them
in their own way adding more interest and also inspiring the others in how the
ideas could be used. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I had set 3 fairly
open topics for the students and was amazed at how ingenious their
interpretations were - way beyond my limited ideas. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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books themselves are the outcome of the course. Some people struggle with why
you would want to take a course like this when you could actually be making
‘real’ finished work. However, in addition to these lovely books and pages, the
students are hopefully full of ideas for ‘real’ work which will be more
interesting and richer for having gone through all of these processes. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fragments hiding behind the Muses</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The gallery in Auxerre really wanted to show
the Muses, but I also wanted to make something new for the occasion. Related
but slightly different. This is the new
series - Fragments. There are 7 of them which can be viewed together or
separately. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The seven pieces pieced and painted</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They started with similar techniques to the
Muses - lots of piecing of small bits of fabric, which were then over painted
to bring some unity to the background. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As I've been thinking lots about stones,
rocks and ancient sculptures I decided to add some rock piles using Markal
paint sticks. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding the Markal</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Testing out colours of sari silk</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The figures were added using sari strips
which were over painted with Brusho. Originally they looked a bit like scene of
the crime outlines as they were so stark!
The figures have changed shape slightly as I am continually redrawing
them to see how far I can simplify them whilst still retaining the idea of the
human form. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Before the final stitches were added</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Finally I stitched the patterns on top. These
are patterns which would have decorated some of the goddesses when they were
made and gaudily painted. I drew a guide pattern to get a sense of the
flow. Following advice, I traced the
pattern onto Golden something paper as it is meant to be really easy to remove.
It may be the easiest paper to remove, but I'm glad I put it on the back as it
is still hard to remove every last piece, especially from small shapes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I don't have a clear photo of all 7 in a row
but hopefully these give you an idea of what they look like. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-60333468660438072562017-09-15T22:00:00.000+01:002017-09-15T22:00:47.644+01:00Exhibition in Auxerre, France<div class="Body">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unsung Muses at Galerie de la Place, Auxerre</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Muses are on their travels again. This
time, they are in Galerie de la Place, Auxerre, France until 30 September. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
is a lovely gallery with a nice friendly feel to it that suits the Muses
perfectly. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Going to hang the work was my first time in Auxerre and it is a
beautiful and old town in Burgundy, with lots of half timbered houses and
cobbled streets. A great place to while away a day. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The exhibition continues until 30 September.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some lovely old buildings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More old buildings - I really liked the street lamps too.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This window, in the Cathedral opposite the Gallery reminded me of some of the shapes I use in my Muse related works.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-84452263739667518702017-06-06T11:11:00.001+01:002017-06-06T11:11:38.520+01:00Hunterian Museum, Glasgow<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although I have lived in or near Glasgow most of my life, until recently I had never visited the <a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/" target="_blank">Hunterian Museum</a> at the University, despite having even been a student there for four years. I think it was due to my misconception that it was just bits of pickled bodies in jars as Hunter, who started the collection was a medical man. There are bits of pickled bodies, but not many - most of them are in the Anatomy Museum and I am still very unlikely to venture there!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hunterian Museum</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I was really pleased to discover the actual contents - which are fascinating - the largest collection of Roman things I've seen in Scotland, relating to the Antonine Wall, stones, fossils, dinosaurs, mummies, pottery - in other words a dream museum for me! Having made this discovery, last week I took the Diploma students there for a research trip and this week it is the turn of some of the Certificate students. These are just some snaps I took there. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Roman times</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For an idea of how to get the most out of a museum research visit, a friend told me the other day she had found my post from two years ago really handy when she went to a new large place as it gave her something to focus on: </span><a href="http://gilliancooper.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/9-top-tips-for-getting-most-out-of.html" target="_blank">http://gilliancooper.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/9-top-tips-for-getting-most-out-of.html</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Torso of a Roman statue</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">General View</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A special exhibition of sketchbooks from a joint research project</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After visiting the Freewheeling exhibition the other weekend, we wandered on to the <a href="http://www.rbge.org.uk/" target="_blank">Botanic Garden in Edinburgh</a>. It was gloriously sunny, which made it great for photography. So here are some gorgeous flower and tree photos. I'm not a gardener or botanist, so I have no idea what they are, I just enjoy the colours, textures and shapes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I take lots of photos of flowers and trees but they rarely make it into my artwork - one day they will feed through as inspiration, but I still have to get the rocks and stones out of my system first!</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-53835018794274079772017-05-08T20:23:00.001+01:002017-05-08T20:23:51.915+01:00Freewheeling Quilt Exhibition in Edinburgh<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday we spent the day in Edinburgh so I could visit Freewheeling's latest exhibition at the Dundas Gallery on Dundas St.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was great to see their work in a gallery setting and there was a lovely variety of work on show.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The exhibition continues to Thursday 11 May 2017 - well worth a visit if you can make it. Otherwise you can find out more about the group here: <a href="http://www.freewheeling.org.uk/">http://www.freewheeling.org.uk</a>/</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-54679741756273777572017-05-05T21:23:00.000+01:002017-05-05T21:23:01.624+01:00Quilt Heritage at the Knitting & Stitching ShowLast weekend I had the pleasure of being on the Quilters' Guild exhibition stand at the Knitting & Stitching Show in Edinburgh. It was lovely being able to spend time amongst such beautiful old quilts and seeing visitors' reactions to them. As I was there on the Sunday, I helped pack them all away, which meant I was able to look at the backs too and get a sense of how they felt (although definitely through white gloves to help conserve the quilts!). These are some photos of the quilts.<br />
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As well as the older quilts, there was fab work by <a href="http://www.effiegalletly.co.uk/" target="_blank">Effie Galletly </a>and the <a href="http://www.62group.org.uk/" target="_blank">62 Group</a> amongst others. The show felt more substantial than last year and it was great to visit and be a part of it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-55506383514881867462017-04-29T21:10:00.000+01:002017-04-29T21:10:17.054+01:00Students' Patchwork & Quilting Exhibition<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's some close up shots of my C&G students work from their exhibition at the weekend. It was a gorgeous sunny day, which made photographing some of the work hard, so I can't show you everything I'd like! But these images will hopefully give you a taste of some of their fantastic work. Also, these quilts do hang straight - it is my poor photography, not poor making skills.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is difficult to know how to describe their work - say 'patchwork' and people expect bed quilts made from traditional patchwork blocks; say 'creative textiles' and people expect nice homemade curtains; say 'art' and they expect paintings. As the course is officially the City & Guilds Certificate or Diploma in Patchwork & Quilting, that was the name we used. This resulted in many, generally pleasantly, surprised viewers.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Susan Briscoe - mixed media samples</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chrystine Livingston - final quilt</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chrystine Livingston - sketchbook cover</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-88948649257122043682017-04-26T21:43:00.000+01:002017-04-26T21:43:25.900+01:00My first students' C&G exhibition<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I haven't been very good at writing my blog recently. Happily this is due to positive reasons rather than sad events in my life. I've just been so busy teaching and getting the final round of C&G classes organised and having some exhibitions to run, oh and occasionally see the family, the blog has sat just that one stage too far down my to-do list to get written. Sorry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So new resolution - be less wordy and merely put the photos and information and ideas out there. There is definitely more chance of this!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">End of grovel! Now on to something more interesting instead. My first groups of C&G students finished at the weekend with an end of course exhibition. It went astonishingly well. Their work was finished, copious and well presented. I was incredibly proud. Lots of lovely people from far and wide came to see their show and seemed to really enjoy it. It was good to finally let my village see what we get up to and they were also impressed at how far some people had travelled. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://wonderfil.co.uk/" target="_blank">Wonderfil</a> kindly sponsored some boxes of threads to encourage the finishing students to carry on stitching. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These photos are some general shots. More details in the next post. They look empty because I took them before anyone arrived and during the private view - I didn't get an opportunity whilst it was properly open - it was all very busy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PS C&G is sadly cancelling these great courses and there is only one final opportunity to study them with me starting in June. Do email me at info(at)gilliancooper.co.uk if you are interested in finding out more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/Museum-of-Childhood" target="_blank">Museum of Childhood</a> in Edinburgh is not a place I would generally go to see a quilt, but what is more associated with childhood than a favourite blankie or quilt? Unsurprisingly, I don't think any of these are on show as generally by the time a child has grown up, the fabric in its comforter has totally disintegrated through love and use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the moment though, it has a small, but sweet exhibition about the links between bedtime stories and quilts. For many of us, the idea of snuggling under the covers with a favourite book even as an adult is a lovely treat. And it can bring back many happy memories of childhood as we recall the magic of the first time we discovered Narnia, Harry Potter or the land at the top of the Faraway Tree. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taking this as a theme, curator Alice Sage asked people to make a quilt block based on their memories of bedtime stories. These were then put together into a quilt which is large enough for a bed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As well as this quilt, there was a quilt based on the book 'The Dream Quilt' </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">by
Adèle Geras. There is also a simple quilt on a bed with the Robert Louis Stevenson poem, 'The Land of Counterpane', complete with toy soldiers marching across it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whilst I wouldn't necessarily recommend a special visit to Edinburgh to see such a tiny exhibition, if you are there, I would definitely pop in to see it and be reminded of all those magical bedtime stories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For those unable to make it, I've written a fuller review for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/britishpatchworkandquiltingmagazine" target="_blank">British Patchwork and Quilting</a> and there is a lovely <a href="https://storiesofchildhood.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">website</a> with details of stories behind each of the blocks, which is well worth a look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.contemporaryquilt.org.uk/" target="_blank">CQ</a>, the contemporary group of the British Quilters' Guild had a call out for A3 sized pieces inspired by a favourite artist for their new suitcase collection. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I love art and the size was not painful, it seemed a good thing to do, although choosing an artist took me ages - who actually is my favourite artist? I like the work of so many. Should I choose someone instantly recognisable or go for a contemporary artist no-one would have heard of or, or, or... Too much choice. So I prevaricated, until one day I opened an old sketchbook and found a photo of a sculpture by Barbara Hepworth and thought it would make a great starting point for a quilt. It was a piece I had seen at the <a href="http://gilliancooper.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/family-outing-to-hepworth-wakefield.html" target="_blank">Hepworth late 2015</a> and it reminded me of the many drawings I was making of stones. I liked the idea of choosing Barbara Hepworth - well known, but not too well known and also a female artist as the majority people have heard of are men. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had got very excited when I saw her sculptures for the first time at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park of shapes with holes, especially as I was making images of people with holes at that time.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Computer drawings</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From my initial drawings I tried out some colour combinations on the computer to fit in with some ideas I was working with.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trying out the fabrics</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had some left over fabric from another piece, which was breakdown printed, discharged out some colour and added some gorgeous kimono silk I had purchased from Susan Briscoe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I liked the way the colours were working but couldn't decide on the quilting pattern, so did a number of sketches. I liked one, R preferred another. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another quilting pattern sketch</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the end, I made a second, smaller version for the <a href="http://www.saqa.com/" target="_blank">SAQA</a> Suitcase Collection, so got to try out two quilting patterns. Which one do you prefer?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Version 2</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-32373907090881570802017-01-10T15:05:00.001+00:002017-01-10T15:05:19.144+00:00Sketchbook development over 2016<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final drawing of the year, based on a Barbara Hepworth sculpture</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy New Year everyone!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the things that has really been occupying my time recently is the development and delivery of the Creative Sketchbook City & Guilds course. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like many other textile artists, I struggle at times with the idea of working in sketchbooks. I've been more of a back of an envelope and large drawing girl. So I was really keen to develop my own use of sketchbooks to improve my work as well as to make the course better for the students. I set myself a daily drawing challenge at the start of 2016 and to begin with, I had my doubts as to whether I would be good enough to teach a sketchbook course. But the mantra 'practice makes perfect' is certainly true and the improvement in my work of the year is astounding.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abstracted drawing of tree trunk and leaves</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is only when I look back that I realise how much I have improved. I haven't worked in my sketchbook every day over the year, but I think if I add up the pages, I will have done way more than 366 as some days I was able to spend more time than others and this worked for me rather than beating myself up if I had to miss a day due to illness or life in general. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chesnut leaves found on holiday</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most of my pages took less than 30 minutes, so they are definitely sketches rather than complete drawings but that is what sketching is about. Over the year I became less precious about my books and things improved</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. More words have crept in as I find it useful to write about what I am doing as a way of processing it. The books are definitely less pristine, but also they have become more exciting. I've been drawing whatever has caught my eye when I sit down to draw, but there are definitely some recurring themes: rocks and stones, whether on a beach, a rockface or a sculpture being the main one, with leaves and Italy, as a result of our holiday, close seconds. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three stones drawn without taking the pen off the paper</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've used lots of different types of media such as inktense, dye, charcoal, acrylic and even occasionally pencil in my books. Again this is really useful as I've learnt more about how these different media work and whether they work together, which isn't always the case. I even learned to embrace oil pastels, something that had never worked for me before.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thermofax print coloured with inktense of a maple leaf from the garden</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was it a useful thing to do? Well, I have already continued drawing in 2017 in my sketchbook, as it has become part of my daily life, so yes. I've got books full of ideas of things to develop. So 2017's goal is to find time to develop them, whilst still continuing to draw!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And for comparison, a drawing from last Jaunary (one of the better ones!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing with print blocks and collage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charcoal drawing of rocks</td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-20406447201589055352016-12-20T11:28:00.001+00:002016-12-20T11:28:17.017+00:00Frieda Oxenham and Sketchbook Techniques<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My attempt, using collage, stencils, stamps, paint and baby wipes</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">At the end of November, I had a special birthday treat a couple of days after my birthday. <a href="http://friedaquilter.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Frieda Oxenham</a> came to share some of her art journaling techniques for creating backgrounds with my Creative Sketchbooks City and Guilds Group. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Frieda doesn't teach often at the moment, so we were especially honoured that she came and shared so much of her work with the Group. Although I was organising the day, I managed to have a go at some of the techniques too, covering myself and the worktop in lots of paint, gesso and used baby wipes. In fact, I don't think I've ever used so many baby wipes since we had three kids in nappies!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We added lots of paint and wiped most of it off using stencils. We used stamps and print blocks on spare paper. Precious scraps got glued into place and then covered in paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Frieda showed us her most recent work in her art journal and talked us through the layers of techniques in great detail. Two things I came away with as useful comments were:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don't believe an artist when they say they 'just throw things on a paper without thinking about the layout'. What they mean is 'through years of experience, I can just place things in the right place by instinct rather than conscious thought'</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don't stop after one or two layers. It adds to the richness of the piece if there are many layers. Sometimes Frieda has up to 20 layers of paint on a page.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The day went incredibly fast and the students all worked so hard. I know my head was buzzing by the end with some many possibilities and I have been creating even more mess on my worktop ever since, putting layers of paint on to several sketchbooks and loose pages all at once.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">You can see much more of Frieda's amazing work on her blog, <a href="http://friedaquilter.blogspot.co.uk/">friedaquilter.blogspot.co.uk</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the <a href="http://www.theknittingandstitchingshow.com/harrogate/" target="_blank">Knitting & Stitching Show</a> in Harrogate, I was really pleased to get a copy of <a href="http://hilarybeattie.co.uk/" target="_blank">Hilary Beattie</a>'s new book 'Make it Personal, Book 2: Inspired by the Coast'. I have Hilary's other books and I was interested to see what her vision for this one would be. I wasn't disappointed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In this book, Hilary takes her theme of the Coast and shows four different ways of interpreting her source material in great detail. It is rare to see this whole process and fascinating to see how the work developed. It was also full of interesting tips and advice on how to make something personal and ideas for collage techniques.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The book is full of photos, showing each stage of the journey, and some diversions. This is encouraging as it shows the work from the initial excitement, through the early stages, when many makers get discouraged, to the final reveal of the finished, exciting piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The book is available for purchase, along with many other goodies on Hilary's shop website at <a href="http://www.hilarybshop.co.uk/">http://www.hilarybshop.co.uk/</a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-11803658487572646982016-12-07T11:48:00.001+00:002016-12-07T11:48:39.471+00:00Catching up at the K&S Show in Harrogate<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello again! I can't believe how long it is since I last wrote on this blog. Nothing major has happened to stop me from blogging, just, well, life gets in the way. Teaching from home is going really well and I'm definitely enjoying it. It has become a full time job, which is fabulous and wonderfully distracting, as I have to try lots of different techniques to share with students and I can see so many possibilities for each one that I just want to try... well, apart maybe from the suffolk puffs!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So when I have a spare moment, I'm finding myself creating in the studio rather than getting on with writing the blog. Sorry!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In December, things quieten down work-wise and before I get overly absorbed in gift buying, card writing and fudge making, I'm hoping to get some blog posts written to catch you up on all that has been happening here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Starting with one of the more recent events: the other weekend I managed to arrange a visit to the in-laws in Harrogate for the same weekend as the Knitting & Stitching Show. Lucky, I know!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The daughter and I had a great day at the Show. She was particularly taken with the <a href="http://www.quiltersguild.org.uk/" target="_blank">Quilters' Guild</a> stand where we could stop, have a seat and make a little bird. These are our attempts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We also had a go at adding to the world's longest embroidery with the <a href="https://embroiderersguild.com/" target="_blank">Embroiderers' Guild</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This didn't leave much time for seeing the exhibits and as I was entertaining daughter, I didn't get as many photo opportunities as normal - in fact this is the only one I took of the exhibitions of the fantastic work by Ruth Singer and Bethany Walker, working together as '<a href="https://interlacetextile.com/" target="_blank">Interlace</a>'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also did a little bit of shopping and have many print blocks to try out soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As we were down seeing family, we were also able to give this baby quilt to the newest addition. When it was in progress on my wall, some of my students thought I'd printed the fabric myself. I didn't. It is incredibly rare that I buy printed fabric, let alone a panel, but I knew I would need to make a baby quilt and this just seemed perfect. Given that babies can only see in black and white to start with (or so I've been told), I thought the contrast would be really good and I brightened it up with some pieces from a jelly roll I bought last year. The jelly roll was bought to make another quilt, which I've never got around to, so it was good to put some of it to use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-60395484227690528102016-09-30T21:25:00.002+01:002016-09-30T21:25:51.839+01:00Cyanotype workshop with Ruth BrownAt the Festival of Quilts this summer, I had the pleasure of being a student rather than being a tutor. I spent two lovely days in a class with Ruth Brown of <a href="http://stonecreektextiles.co.uk/" target="_blank">Stone Creek Textiles</a> learning how to cyanotype - a blue photography technique that works really well on fabric and paper. These are some of the fabulous results.<br />
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Cyanotyping is a great way to add images onto fabric. It was good to learn from an expert and discover how to put the cyanotype on the fabric without ending up with the downstairs loo looking like a blue slasher movie has just been filmed there. I do seem to get in a bit of a mess.<br />
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One of the key things I learned was how well pinned down everything needs to be on the fabric before you expose it to light and you see the fabric turning from green to blue to grey. <br />
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If the fabric is not well pinned, you get a fuzzy image, which may be desirable, but you want to be able to control it yourself.<br />
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We also learnt how to turn the cyanotype from blue to yellow and brown, through soda ash and tea. I've still to try coffee, which apparently gives a more purple-y brown.<br />
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We also discovered how to add photos by making a negative on acetate. I also loved the random effects you can get by just scrunching up the fabric and exposing it at different times.<br />
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Ruth has a book on cyanotyping which is really comprehensive and I would definitely recommend taking a class with her. Find out more at <a href="http://www.stonecreektextiles.co.uk/">www.stonecreektextiles.co.uk</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-12033019226064962942016-09-27T14:41:00.001+01:002016-09-27T14:41:35.571+01:00Free machine quilting of leaves with thermofax<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Silver Birch leaf, on a background of free machined sari strips</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Free machine quilting seems to intimidate many quilters. It has taken on mythical proportions of difficulty and some quilters would do anything to avoid it. I remember when I first started quilting doing everything by hand because every time I looked at the machine something seemed to go wrong. Now, after years of practice, I don't even notice that I am free machining, it is as easy as straight stitching.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Free machining is where you lower the feed-dogs on your machine and then you control the size and direction of the stitch rather than the machine. Like most worthwhile things in life, it just takes practice. The more you do, the better you become. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm currently making a quilt with some leaves on it and this is how I've recreated the leaves.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Silver birch leaves on the scanner</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First I went into the garden and picked some silver birch leaves. I discovered that our tree is a bit diseased and I need to look up why most of the leaves have funny spots on them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I scanned in the leaves on the computer and then printed them off and traced the outline and some of the veins of the more interesting ones on tracing paper. I then scanned the tracing in, printed it off on a laser printer and turned it into a thermofax screen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using some textile paint, I then printed a number of leaves onto stitch and tear, which after the paint had dried I pinned onto the back of the quilt and stitched round the lines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tried this in a number of different ways - adding fabric on the front, so it was appliqued on with the stitching as well as just the stitched outline. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fabric was then turned over to the front and more machining added.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm really pleased with the effect of these and am now piecing together the quilt top to add the leaves too as the samples worked so well.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only the outline of the leaves were stitched, then the central veins filled in with more machine stitching in different colours and types of thread</span></td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-48278357349488192152016-09-12T14:51:00.000+01:002016-09-12T14:51:16.451+01:00Textile Treasures from the Quilters' Guild<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of a 1930s quilt made with an astounding array of dress making fabrics</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As part of the C&G Diploma in Patchwork and Quilting, you have to write an illustrated study of British Quilt History. To help make this come alive, I've borrowed a suitcase collection of historical quilts, called Textile Treasures from the Quilters' Guild to share with my students. It is amazing what will fit into one suitcase. It was even more exciting when I was finally able to open it - the case was padlocked and I didn't have the combination to start with!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Visitors to the Open Day</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it was here, I thought it would nice to share with others who may be interested and so I had an Open Day last Friday. I had no idea how many people, if any, would turn up, but in the end, even in the rotten weather, we had a lovely crowd of about 60 across the day. The age range was 17-90 which was fantastic, most of us fascinated by textiles, with a few reluctant partners dragged along.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More visitors - isn't my studio really tidy for once!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've now seen this collection three times and it is amazing the different insights each group has about the quilts. It can be difficult when you first look at an old quilt to appreciate it and that is part of the beauty of having this collection here - understanding how to look at these historical textiles and learning what we can from them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some quick points we have learned:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">some of the ugliest quilts have the most brilliant stories behind them, like this Canadian Red Cross Quilt, which was given to a family who had been bombed out three times in World War II</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canadian Red Cross Quilt</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">some of the hand-stitching is stunning, especially when it has been stitched by candle or gaslight. And if you look closely enough, not all the shapes are as crisp as they should be. So quilts were fudged years ago as well and we don't notice it on other people's quilts straight away, nor does it diminish our pleasure of them (there is a moral there!)</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One inch hexagon quilt</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">some of these quilts have their small pieces made up from scraps or they have used mended fabric, so nothing was wasted. I can't imagine piecing two bits of fabric to make a one inch hexagon.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on the other hand, some of these quilts were made from new, good fabric as you can still see the glaze on the chintz, which would have washed off if it had been laundered. </span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A hexagon quilt, which has been carefully 'fussy-cut'</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you can learn a lot about printing techniques and chemical development over time by looking at the different printed cottons used. Green was hard to make, so blue was over-printed with yellow. Where it didn't line up, you can see the blue and yellow still.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fabric doesn't last forever and decay depends on what chemicals were used to dye it. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">quilters have always loved the new and 'exciting'</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two North Country Quilts. The one of the left must have been one of the earliest to use viscose rayon as the fabric</td></tr>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">just because it is old does not mean it is very good - we shouldn't lose our ability to be discerning when faced with something that has been lovingly preserved over the years. However, this is a judgement call and we all have different tastes, thank goodness.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two more of my C&G groups still have to see the collection before I return it. If you get the chance, I would highly recommend borrowing it and spending time with these historical objects.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-63543361521210481562016-08-29T12:21:00.000+01:002016-08-29T12:21:00.284+01:00Talking Quilts<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="http://www.talkingquilts.org.uk/" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfWLnZEb_1LJ7A_F8c74xCD2P6OKuX11Z6hY0iCFWWHXXooTTqV-tMy8_2DdkafBi_AfizydyeV6habDia0s5MgPTO3WgY6fG-UQSZwdEFrOxdp0bB1JxPDTCJsG_PwHdkHf9CHZvbgUU/s320/2-IMG_3667.JPG" width="204" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.talkingquilts.org.uk/" target="_blank">Talking Quilts Exhibition at the Festival of Quilts</a></td></tr>
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When I visited the International Quilt Festival in Houston six years ago, I was very taken with a project called Quilt SOS, or Save Our Stories, organised by the Quilt Alliance. It records the individual histories of quilt makers, creating a vast, recorded oral history of US quilt making. You can access loads of information about it <a href="http://quiltalliance.org/projects/qsos/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate Smith's quilt about her amazing mother</td></tr>
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I wrote an article about it for The Quilter and asked the question why were we not doing something similar here? Well, it turned out that some people were already starting to organise such a project.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jennifer Campbell Kirk</td></tr>
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Led by Pauline Macaulay, and under the banner of the <a href="http://quiltersguild.org.uk/" target="_blank">Quilters' Guild</a>, Talking Quilts came into being with help from lottery funding. Over the past few years, volunteers have recorded and transcribed over 140 interviews with quilters talking about one of their quilts. <br />
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And at this summer's Festival of Quilts, there was a gallery of some of the quilts which were the focus of the interviews, alongside some details from their recordings and you could listen to the recordings themselves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sabi Westoby</td></tr>
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It was fantastic to see this project come to fruition and the interviews on display were just as exciting and interesting as those I had seen in the States. It is fascinating to discover which quilt the maker chose to share - often not their favourite or their best, but one with personal meaning attached. <br />
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As a gross generalisation, the ordinary person, in particular women, can get missed from history, as their lives even to themselves, can seem unimportant. This project records the history of such people as well as more well-known ones, and it shows that there is no such thing as ordinary, everyone counts and everyone has a story to tell and share...or at least quilters do!<br />
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This is a <a href="http://www.talkingquilts.org.uk/" target="_blank">link to the Talking Quilts website</a>, where you can read some of the transcripts of the interviews and listen to the audio. More are still be added. It is an amazing project aided by so many volunteers, all helping to preserve the history of their craft.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alongside the Talking Quilts, there were historical quilts owned by the Guild, also with interesting family connections</td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-880404201457000117.post-42198875303781808592016-08-19T13:51:00.002+01:002016-08-19T13:51:49.461+01:00Some highlights from the Festival of Quilts 2016<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Festival of Quilts at the NEC, Birmingham took place last weekend. I went down for three days, but as I had decided to take a number of courses, I only really had 1/2 a day for mooching around looking at the quilts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As always there were some lovely quilts and looking at my photos this morning, I didn't take many photos this year and I don't seem to have taken photos of all my favourite galleries such as that by Claire Benn and Ingrid Press. Rather than share full photos at such a small resolution you don't get any idea at all of what the quilt was really like, here is a selection of close ups of some that caught my eye at the Show.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ineke Berlyn - Pieces of Positivity 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edwina Mackinnon - Pathways</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helen Cowans - Forgotten Women of the Land</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leah Higgins, winner of the Art Quilts Category - the breakdown printing was beautiful</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cas Holmes - Unfolding Landscape Summer Verge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.designmatterstv.com/winning-quilters-guild-challenge-52-degrees/" target="_blank">Laura Kemshall, Winner of the Quilters' Guild Challenge. You can read about this amazing quilt and her new processes on her blog at https://www.designmatterstv.com/winning-quilters-guild-challenge-52-degrees/</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://ruthsinger.com/" target="_blank">Ruth Singer with her winning quilt in the Fine Art Quilt Masters category</a></td></tr>
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