April Cornucopia

 

The surprise bloom on my what I was calling a "jade plant" but is really instead a sedum praealtumv aka shrubby stonecrop or green cockscomb. It's running amok now that it's not in a small pot, and actually flowered for the first time ever! Anyways, here's a cornucopia post overflowing with all of the links to media of all sorts that I enjoyed this month.

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After reading several pieces about the passing of Faith Ringgold, (may she Rest In Power) I kept coming back to this quote about her American People series painted in the 60's: "“I couldn’t paint landscapes in the 1960s — there was too much going on,” she explained in a 2018 interview with Hyperallergic. “This is what inspired the American People Series. For me it is important to make work about peril if it’s your story. One can find beauty in horror that you can share through your art and ideally effect change.”

She continued: “It’s important to me to express the ills of society that are widely accepted while also delivering the message without only seeing the ill. I try to show both the good and the ill. For example, Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ — all the bad and evil was depicted in such a way that you can deal with it. For me that is key.”  

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A really clear video tutorial from Snuggly Monkey on visible mending (or just mending) with a Speed-weve Loom. Now I get it!

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Don't forget PIQF is in July this year instead of the usual October. So that means entry deadline is June 17th. And the New Quilts of Northern California exhibit deadline is even earlier at May 24th.

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I'm probably going to try and make an Alison Glass "Stamp Quilt" using her new stamp stripe print and the free block. I don't know if I'll do the sew-a-long that she's hosting or not, but I love the idea of this postage stamp block. There will be fussy cutting in my future.

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I've always admired barn quilts, and now you can get one for your own house (or barn) through Quiltfolk and EQ8. You can choose from some standard blocks or even design your own in EQ8. I have to say that I'm very very tempted. Not that I have a barn or anything of course, but I could see one of these mounted over my 2 story studio window.

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Oooh, go spend an hour watching a video with Bisa Butler and her amazing fabric art portraits.

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