Autumn is very long and a slow move into something called winter ???
I drove to Bendigo yesterday... dry as..& on the way back I drove over a very large snake..ALIVE.
Creepy creepy...but these reptiles are still wide awake.
I arrived in to find my firewood had been delivered & neatly stacked in the wood shed!!!
That was a wonderful wonderful surprise..
In Bendigo I had several things to attend to & one was to find my fabric at L'il Blokes
Lynn has rearranged the shop & it looks wonderful.
A friend home made my soup & slice for lunch with her cat Moggy close by...
I felt lovely & spoilt ...
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Below is a collage & reminder of stitched things in the past... as well as some mannequin brooches..
I have a batch of those blanks here & I may just like a little play with them again.
You see I have been doing some private housekeeping..
Amazing sweepout....
Before any of these processes begin for me I have a shift in my creative process....design..style can change direction & to the onlooker it appears this is an immediate event...
but ideas, themes are processed....
and I cannot force to draw ...write..paint anything I am not attuned to.
And it is often risky to put out into a world that has a very different look...
but that is how designers really live.. on an edge.
It is also why designers are quite annoyed ( I am being polite here ) when things are mimicked....
So what has been flowing from my inner self to the canvas I write my life on has been a gradual process...
then
windows of progress...
nothing..for a while
again something persists..
and
I am calling it My French Vintage stage !!!!
Some of you may recall long before the French themes dominated our industry I had a quilt...called
A Day out In Paris
it had followed a stable of brooches & buttons too ( oh I had about forgotten them)what I felt French women wore & did for a day out in Paris..
I have one of those stitcheries...I'll show you after this pic...so scroll down.
copyright Barbara Smith
This is Jillian....
she is a part of who I am...
That is how those designs became...
After I stitched these ladies...it was then I decided to add some divine sort of soft old world fabric to be come a quilt.
I am not a quilt designer as in doing precision..it just doesn't fit me at all...
But I adore random piecing to make a piece that becomes ....?
It is so freeing, but very hard to write into patterns...it can be done with discipline ..
but my disciplined life has kind of faded..
I love the freedom creating of any sort provides me.
Once I did it in a garden....
another time I did it with hairstyles..
always thought that way..
one of the gifts from my childhood.
copyright Barbara Smith
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