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Comment by Amy Irwen on July 10, 2012 at 8:50pm

Nice to see you back Adamandia...

Comment by Amy Irwen on July 9, 2012 at 1:49pm

Beautiful Guido *!*

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on July 9, 2012 at 6:05am

From Guido Capuano, Italy

La fibre vibre comme le sang qui coule dans nos veines, par amour, espoir et desespoir (Guido Vermeulen).

THE FIBRE VIBRATES IN OUR BLOODSTREAM

BY LOVE and HOPE and DESPAIR.

Comment by Amy Irwen on June 24, 2012 at 10:41pm

A great fiber arts postcard from Sue Hobbs.So Africa.06.19.12

"who let the Chooko out?"...what a great visual piece...along with this, Sue included several "birdcages" - fabric, stamped (which I already put to good use!) and laser cut...SUPER!!!

thank you so much Sue *!*

Comment by Amy Irwen on June 23, 2012 at 6:04pm

Sent to Kim JungYoun

Comment by Carla Cryptic on June 18, 2012 at 12:14am

You're welcome on both fronts, Sarah.  I used to do a lot of fabric-related things years ago and am just getting back to them again now.  I was a seamstress for a few years (professionally) and I worked in a fabric store where everyone spent most of their wages on fabric (lol).  Also, my Mom was an artist and teacher (at local colleges and art schools) who taught fabric printing and I picked up a lot from her classes.  Molas were one of the few things I introduced to her, though. I discovered them when I was doing Anthropology at UCB.  The Phoebe Hearst Museum on the Berkeley campus has some amazing handwork artifacts, really inspiring.

In this case, Amy, I have decided to do my pages using canvas throughout because my Mom, who recently died, left me a lot of beautiful high-end canvas (she was a painter) and I want to use some of the materials she left me in my work to keep her close and to have her along for the ride, so to speak.  Of course, it means that the work is easier as well, in many ways, since the canvas is such a pliable but consistent substrate.  When I have worked in fabric before, I never used canvas - I see now that it's a brilliant material for something like a book (!).  Should have realized it years ago. lol

Comment by Sarah Churchill on June 18, 2012 at 12:00am

Thanks for the compliment Carla! Great of you to share these new techniques with us - mola is new to me.

Comment by Amy Irwen on June 17, 2012 at 11:36pm

Hi Carla..nice to hear from you...like the mola page, want to reach out and touch it ;)
Are you using canvas paper for your books ?

Comment by Carla Cryptic on June 17, 2012 at 11:11pm

Love your work, Sarah, and it's very different (which from me is a big compliment!).  Always great to see your work Amy. :D

I'm in a fabric book round robin right now - 10 artists, each making their own book and each of us does a couple of pages for each other's books.  It's really fun and also challenging (in a good way).  I've just finished several things - the most recent two are a quilt page and a mola page.  Attached are photos.  If any of you aren't familiar with molas, please google them and see what wonderful directions people have taken using the technique!  It's from a traditional quilt-like technique used by Kuna women to decorate their clothing (the Kuna are native Panamanians).  Check out the Wikipedia article on molas - it's pretty good.  

Blue Ridge Mountains quilt page:

Undersea Mola page

Comment by Suus in Mokum on June 17, 2012 at 9:41pm

Sarah! I like the funky cows. I can believe it took a long long time. Just did some crochet around a piece of postcard paper... pffffff munk's work. But nice result.

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