Autumn Equinox

Fall is my favourite time of year – the mosquitoes for the most part have left us, the days are warm and the nights colder, to say nothing of the fabulous colours all around.
driveway
This is a photograph of our driveway – what a pleasure to walk down.
Fracturing-sm
I have had a very productive month – after clicking my heels for weeks I have finally finished both the hanging about fracturing and also the one of the results of acid rain – the only thing I have to do is to decide on the final names and make the labels. I always have trouble being creative over titles to my paintings and quilted hangings.
Acid-Rain-sm
I have also finally managed to design my quilt for the FAN exhibit of Ekphrastic. Actually ekphrastic is a poem that has a painting or other work of art as its subject – we are doing it in reverse having the poem inspire the work of art.
Foil-scribbles
I had been doing scribbles of my ideas for the poem for months. This month I got down to hard work - I did many small designs, talked it over with friends, actually drew out three full sized designs and then settled on a fourth and the rough idea of the colour of the piece.
Foil-design
Then came the pattern production and the picking of the fabrics, the painting of the “topaz” (I used Derwent Inktense pencils and a textile medium) and the purchase of some “jewels that I hope to incorporate. Unfortunately the wonderful organic pieces that a fellow fibre artist gave me did not make the final cut.
Foil-Beginning
I then practiced using gold leaf and copper leaf on fabric. I have used gold leaf on book binding and also in several of my acrylic paintings – this will be a first on fabric. Having finally got all my ducks in a row I have now started to sew, by hand, all the pieces together – am going to have to give myself a deadline to get this next stage finished as the whole piece has to be completed by the start of 2016 and I have to make sure I don’t take as long as I have been taking with my jigsaw puzzle hanging – the quilting still has to be completed on that.
Foil-Four
Today spent a very pleasant morning meeting with an extremely fine Manitoba artist to plan a workshop for the FAN retreat next fall. What we have planned sounds so exciting that I wish it was happening this month.