Monday, January 31, 2022

January 2022 Cornucopia

 

Welcome to the New Year! Hopefully your first month went as well as possible during these still very strange times we live in now. After two years, I'm still resisting getting used to the "new normal."

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A movie of the one exhibit so far of 25,000,000 Stitches, a very cool six+minutes. It sounds like there might be more exhibits coming up of this work in the near future, I hope I can go see it.

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You might want to participate in this starting in February, #The100DayProject what you do is of course, all up to you, but making some sort of art every day for 100 days in a row is a great project to do for yourself.

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A stash-buster challenge for the new year, using a really great block from Border Creek Station.

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Check out Window Swap, where you can open a window at random places in the world, and submit your own if you want to.

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One of my favorite collage artists, Barbara Kruger has an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago which you can experience via a 3-D walkthrough. Futura Bold for the win!

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You still have time to enter Quilt Visions, deadline is February 10th. They do such a great job of presenting art quilts in this museum, it's really worth a try.

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Another way to do an interesting variation on Flying Geese blocks, the Stroked Flying Geese.

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Here's a free heart quilt design that would be do-able in time for Valentine's Day if you start right now.

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A really beautiful and soothing video look at the stitched illustrations for the incredible children's book, My Bed, an exhibit of these artworks is now touring the country for the next few years. It would be a real treat to see these creations in person. I somehow missed the political commentary stop-motion movie Liberty & Justice that Sally Mavor and her husband created a few years ago. Absolutely amazing work.

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Join in on this sew-a-long in February, Stronger Together to celebrate Black History Month. I really love this free pattern, seems very do-able and I'm going to try it out.

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I've been doing a whole lot of reading around the anniversary of 1/6. And yes, most of it is tough going because it's a tough and rather terrifying subject. Being more informed helps me not be as worried, and maybe it will help you too. Here are some essays or articles that I found to be particularly informative or clear about the issues both current and historical. After The Insurrection, The Business Plot Against Democracy, Why Confederate Lies Live On, The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt, Q For Conspiracy,

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