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I'm admittedly (sometimes-overly) fond of alliteration and assonance, and life has just inspired a stream of both. Have been kicking myself for being digitally undisciplined (see? d-d?) -- ie., had NO idea I'd saved this photo of a young Picasso with a patchwork background -- while also aiming to cut myself some slack. So this will have to do for my Thursday promote-your-endeavors post on the much-appreciated Women in Guadalajara page, as well as a true 'throwback Thursday' image. 
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Thanks again to Louis Cotto, and guanatozfm!
I recently took a week-long series of workshops with Jessica Serran, whose work I truly admire, and -- as she promised -- taking just a few marketing/networking actions CONSCIOUSLY, and fearlessly, and lovingly, (all that sounds easier than it is), did indeed shake things up around my art. The panel I did for Irish St. Brigid's Day is in a museum in Dublin, and in a cool video.
www.ireland.ie/en/st-brigids-day/common-threads/ fbclid=IwAR1qhn5PZscP6gX0i3wKwbtPavcuAynTgpfWijf0atI-HXE27wCfHSze7Mw I have a radio interview at 3pm Guad (Central US) time on Valentine's Day, where I'll talk about quilts' historical/social significance, etc. (live broadcast at www.guanatozfm.net), and I'm starting to work on scheduling Open Studios so that the map quilts, in particular (see the Engl/Irel/Scotland and Pacific Rim tabs here on the site), find their way into relevant homes or offices or consulates or restaurants... lucindaquilts.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9666007
These baby blasts from the past are here to remind me to post some of the ones that are still available -- ...that never made it over here.
https://lucindaquilts.webs.com Whether you can easily navigate to THAT 'lucindaquilts' is still a bit of a mystery to me, but if you DO get there the Photo Gallery has tons of photos (like 200!) that really need to 'migrate' some day. I'm thinking of just how to get the help I need to be able to relax about all this website busines: my latest bright idea is to exchange English classes for website help, as I DO know some good website designer/managers here in Guadalajara, who MIGHT want to jazz up their English...  One of my admitted points of westie-resistance has to do with not enjoying digital maneuvering of photos. While I somehow actually produced a photographic history for publication at one time (Images of America: Amagansett, from Arcadia Publishers, good sample available on the publishers' site), I always find managing photos overwhelming. So I'm posting this photo just to remind myself how much joy one image can carry, and preserve.
As mentioned in part 1, "The client can decide whether the quilt should be finished with batting, backing and yarn ties OR with a simple backing, no batting, OR with a simple binding, no backing at all. " The advantage of a faced or bound coverlet is that it is lighter, and allows you to decide whether you might want to have the quilt machine- or hand-quilted at a later date. In the meantime, you can use it year-round, and it's easy to store. Facing means I join the patchwork 'top' to a backing sheet of plain fabric, which finishes the edges. Binding means a long strip of fabric sewn all around the edges, with the seams of the patchwork are visible on the back. [Note: The reason I don't machine quilt when I can help it: it is much less satisfactory than hand quilting. Without very special equipment the possibilities for bunching-up and other little disasters are countless, and machine stitches NEVER give the warm 'feel' of those made by human hands.
The reason I wish I could hand-quilt certain quilts, but don't: I'm 71, quilting needles are tiny and sitting for long stretches can make my bones cranky. But also, the time involved for just basic quilting is a minimum 20-30 hours per quilt, which makes for a fairly unacceptable price.] Still learning how to maneuver on my website (after all these years!); the above link may not be automatic but it WILL get you to the Facebook album (you may need to cut/paste til I get savvier) where you can see other possibilities, beyond a simple grid of squares. I can also note that these two (each smaller than 2m square, but still good-sized) quilts =- and a small pillow -- used two BIG plastic bags full of shirts! Here are the two in progress, the pillow perched atop the more 'abstract' design.  It's been awhile since time-constraints let me accept a commission for a memory quilt, and I realized today that between 'the aging process' and pandemic glitches, a lot has changed in my studio, and my working methods. I found this etsy seller www.etsy.com/listing/174469858/custom-memorial-quilt-memory-quilt?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=memorial+quilt&ref=sr_gallery-1-6 to use as a pricing reference point, but I need to specify a few things for my own potential clients, here in Guadalajara. For quilts that memorialize a beloved father, for example with a design made from his shirts for example, it will of course depend upon the total number of shirts provided, but the maximum size will be 2 meters square. The simplest design at that size will be around 64-25cm squares, artfully arranged. The client can decide whether the quilt should be finished with batting, backing and yarn ties OR with a simple backing, no batting, OR with a simple binding, not even any backing. This is what 'batting, backing and yarn ties' looks like -- you can see how (depending on the color yarn) the ties become an organic-looking part of the quilt. This type is very warm and comfortable, puffier than a quilted-quilt.  I'm working on a post about prices for commissioned quilts, but first I wanted to mention...18/5/2022 ...that over these two years I've learned a lot about quilts' usefulness in my own home, and some of the simple things that make them so. Thanks to having found a bunch of elegant upholstery sample books that'd been tossed out, I've made a few dense, but not too heavy 'coverlets' -- one of which we use on the bed, for a surprising amount of warmth in the winter-time, 'surprising' because 'coverlet' means it has no filler, nor is it quilted, either by hand or machine. It's simply either faced with a sheet of plain fabric, or bound with narrow cloth tape to keep edges from raveling.
I use another for effectively blocking street noise in my office. Colorful decor AND functionality. |
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