General Fiber Posts
Circle of Life Shawl. The edging is still not done. I am mostly through section 2…of 8.
Keep Knitting!
I am vested in this project. I’ve just been too tired at night to work on lace these days. I need to set aside some time each week to work on it. I want it finished by fall.
The last time I posted about my spring cleaning effort was back in May 2009. I think it’s high time to go through it again.
Let’s start off with a walk down memory lane with the status on the projects I identified back in 2009.
Score? Of the 7 projects, 2 still remain unresolved — after nearly FOUR years!
71%, or C- on a straight grading scale. Thankfully, we are not counting successes here; otherwise, the score would be even lower. I wonder what it might look like on a curve if we were to take into account of all the fiber artisans/crafters. Would I move up in the B range or down into a failing grade? I suppose consideration should be made that these were already in trouble to begin with, and not representative of my collective works. It’s a small consolation and sounds like a weak defense/excuse, even to my ears.
In any case, it’s not up to my standards. The only thing that I’ve ever scored this low was my Statics and Strengths of Materials course in college. This is why I don’t design bridges. However, I’m not ready to give up on my fiber related pursuits.
I received an email from San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles this weekend. They have a serious cash shortfall. If they don’t raise $80K in the next 2 weeks, they will have to close their doors. Please help out if you can and spread the word.
From their website:
The first museum in the United States to focus exclusively on quilts and textiles as an art form, the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2012. With compelling exhibitions of historical and contemporary textiles, engaging gallery walks and artist talks for adults, and a highly successful educational outreach program for 2nd students, we aim to increase the public’s awareness, understanding, and appreciation of quilts and textiles as a form of artistic and cultural expression that peoples worldwide have practiced for thousands of years.
Cloth is at the core of human experience. Every culture throughout history has had a textile tradition through which people learned about and sustained their social, civic and religious rituals. As largely a woman’s tradition, quilting became a primary vehicle for women’s social, political and artistic expression when other forms of expression were not available to them. It was during the 1970s, when the women’s movement and the feminist art movement came to full flower, that a new breed of artists, often formally educated, began choosing fiber as a fine art medium, challenging assumptions about both the intent and the content of textile art forms.
Thank you.
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