The next few weeks are going to be a challenge for me; more
things demanding my attention. It is the
time of year to get my vegetable garden going. I enjoy growing some of my own
food, but it does take planning and a lot of nurturing, much like creating
original textile art. It is hard work,
but it all is satisfying work. I’m also
sowing some wildflower seeds that I collected last fall, things that I can use
for dyeing. I want them in places where
I may get to them easily, as opposed to trying to harvest flowers growing
behind a thick hedge of thorns and poison ivy.
I am now in possession of a 10x10’ pop-up tent for the
upcoming art fair in July. I also
invested in a collapsible cart.
Everything I need for these shows has to fit into a subcompact car. It is a hatchback, but it still doesn’t hold
much. Packing the car for a show is an
amazing feat of creativity. Tough decisions
must be made about what items are absolutely necessary, and what can be done
without. Not a bad life lesson.
I haven’t done any pictorial art quilts (yet), but I am
envisioning a future piece that captures the image of my little car with all
sorts of stuff exploding out of the back.
I’m thinking of a somewhat 3-D piece, with the trail of junk coming out
towards the viewer. I’ve got to get this
one down in my ever-expanding book of ideas…
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